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Herefordshire Support for Families Strategy Consultation
What is the Children & Young People’s Partnership?
Herefordshire Support for Families Strategy Consultation
What is the Partnership doing?
• Working to change the ways services are provided so that children, young people and families that need extra help can be identified and supported as early as possible.
Consulting with children, young people, families and the people that work with them
Herefordshire Support for Families Strategy Consultation
What is a Family?
An adult doing the ‘job’ of parent or carer to one or more children or young people
Birth families
Extended birth families
Foster families
Adoptive families
Herefordshire Support for Families Strategy Consultation
What is Support for Families?
Any activity that aims to support a family to successfully meet all of their children’s needs
Need for a healthy life
Need to stay safe
Need to enjoy and achieve
Need to make a positive contribution
Need to achieve economic well-being
Herefordshire Support for Families Strategy Consultation
How are children & young people supported?
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Volunteering MoneyProblems
Career
Family
Friends
School
Connexions/AdviceCentre
Where do you go first for help or information?Source: Young People’s Health & Lifestyle Survey 2006,
involving 3853 11-15 year olds in Herefordshire•Mostly provided from within the family itself.
•Sometimes by an external agency or agencies with a specific remit to do so.
• ‘External’ support should be provided in partnership with the family, as they will be key to its success.
Herefordshire Support for Families Strategy Consultation
What ‘needs’ do children, young people and families have?