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refordshire Support for Families Strategy Consultat

Herefordshire Support for Families Strategy Consultation

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Herefordshire Support for Families Strategy Consultation

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?

Herefordshire Support for Families Strategy Consultation

How is support provided now?

Herefordshire Support for Families Strategy Consultation

How do we plan to change things?

Herefordshire Support for Families Strategy Consultation

THANK YOU FOR TAKING PART!