Addressing complex problems across a family continues to be the focus of a great deal of policy attention.
The latest family intervention services official statistics were published by the Department for Education this week and are available here.
These statistics present a compelling case for LAs and their partners to develop and implement intensive family intervention with families with multiple and complex needs.
research in practice have some excellent resources to support work in this area:
- Cost benefits of early intervention (Ryan 2011)
- Thinking Family (Bowyer 2009)
- Quality Matters films: a series of short films that tell a compelling story of the benefits of family intervention for one family in the north east
- Children on the edge of care: intensive family preservation services and family intervention projects (Bowyer 2007)
- Social Impact Bond Pilots: RPU128 September 2011 on trialling the use of Social Impact Bonds to fund intensive support for families with multiple problems.
