Supporting Families Enhancing Futures Practice Framework
The Wirral Safeguarding Children Partnership (WSCP) developed a Practice Framework for working with children, young people and their families across levels 3 and 4 (Team Around the Family, Child in Need, Child Protection, and Children Looked After) of the Wirral Continuum of Need.
The framework has a focus on understanding how issues affect the child’s lived daily experience.
Online Training Resources
Click here to access the new online training resources including:
Effective and Smart Plans (Page opens in a new tab)
Daily Lived Experience Resources
Click here to access the new daily lived experience resources including guidance and case studies for professionals, and a powerpoint presentation.
SFEF Framework Guidance Documents
To support professionals and agencies with the introduction of the SFEF model the WSCP has introduced a programme of multi-agency training and has published a detailed Practice Guidance document and numerous other support, guidance and at-a-glance factsheets.
1. Practice Guidance for Professionals
The Multi-agency Guidance documents details the SFEF model and how it supports professionals working with families in the Early Help, Child in Need and Child Protection frameworks.
Resource Documents for Professionals
3. Prompt Sheets for Practitionersv2
The prompt sheets document includes an overview of the principles of the SFEF model and provides guidance for working with children, parents and carers and families.
Conversation starters for child
Conversation starters for parents and carers
Conversation starters to explore parent or carers readiness to change
Conversation starters to explore changes made or still to make
This A3 colour poster summarises the SFEF model and is designed for easy reference.
5. SFEF Frequently Asked Questions
6. SFEF Help Sheet – Strategy Meetings
7. SFEF Help Sheet – Section 47 Enquiries
8. SFEF Help Sheet – Process to ICPC
9. SFEF Help Sheet – Initial Child Protection Conferences
10. SFEF Help Sheet – Core Group Meetings
11. SFEF Help Sheet – Child in Need Timescales and Process
12. SFEF Help Sheet – Early Help Assessment Tool
13. SFEF Help Sheet – Role of the Lead Professional
14. SFEF Help Sheet – The TAF Meeting
15. SFEF Help Sheet -The TAF Plan
16. SFEF and Children Looked After
17. Single Multi-Agency Assessment – Information for Partner Services
18. SFEF headings for health professionals to contribute to single assessment
19. SFEF headings for education settings contributing to single assessment
20. Capturing the Daily Lived Experience of a child and adult – Information for Partner Agencies
21. Single Assessment Best Practice Document
Below is an example of a plan from an ICPC. At the first Core Group clear timescales and responsibility for actions should be clarified.
23. My role in communicating with a child and adult
24. Information Request from Professionals to Help inform EHAT
Leaflets for Families
CP Conference Parent Carer’s Guide
CP Enquiries Parent Carer’s Guide
CP Young People’s Guide (younger)
CP Young People’s Guide (older)
Multi-agency Training
The WSCP has developed multi-agency training for professionals. The multi-agency training introduces the SFEF framework, detailing the principles and how the model will work ‘in practice’ with children, young people and families. The training also practically explores how the model will influence key multi-agency meetings such as Child Protection Conferences and Core Groups.
Training courses run regularly. Places can be booked here: https://www.wirralsafeguarding.co.uk/courses/
Useful tools and videos for professionals
The WSCP publishes copies of and links to common tools for practitioners to use when working with families to support an assessment of need:
https://www.wirralsafeguarding.co.uk/tools-for-professionals/
Guidance for using the Portal to share information for assessments can be found here (page opens in a new tab).
Useful Links
http://www.socialworkerstoolbox.com/ includes a diverse range of free resources particularly useful for discussing parental drug and alcohol misuse, domestic violence and sexual exploitation.
http://www.genopro.com/genogram/symbols/ includes information regarding symbols and how to construct a genogram
Please note all Supporting Families Enhancing Futures and SFEF materials are copyright to the Wirral Safeguarding Children Partnership and may only be used by professionals in WSCP partner agencies.