Family Group Conferencing to Reduce Children Looked After among 0-5’s
Family Group Conferencing is an evidence based model which provides families with an opportunity to take the lead in making safe plans for the child which address the identified concerns.
Warwickshire County Council’s Family Group Conferencing Team successfully bid for Smart Start Funding to undertake a pilot project with Children who are Looked After aged 0-5.
The project will be working with Social Work teams and families in Nuneaton and Bedworth, where there is a child aged 0-5 who is either Looked After or at risk of becoming Looked After.
The project will examine using Family Group Conferencing to get the right children home safely at the right time. We will explore Family Group Conference with 30 families over the project period. By using FGC as a mechanism to plan and involving families to safely reduce children Looked After, then resources could be used more effectively and more widely to support more children.
We have recruited 1.2 FTE Family Group Conference Co-ordinators, who will start to work with families identified by Social Workers in June 2016.
Contact: Lizzie Walsh
Email: lizziewalsh@warwickshire.gov.uk