Programme aims to improve children’s outcomes by boosting their parents’ skills and confidence in helping them to learn through everyday activities at home.
Parenting programmes and workshops develop families’ skills and boost their emotional wellbeing while improving relationships between children and parents.
Anna Wardley visited Denmark to speak to leading experts and organisations doing innovative work to improve mental health outcomes for suicide-bereaved children that could be replicated in the UK.
Strengthening Families, Strengthening Communities is used with a diverse range of parents to provide insight and advice on ways to improve relationships with children.
Projects in the first phase of the Children's Social Care Innovation Programme have been evaluated to identify practice that has the most impact for children, with seven clear features emerging.
Pilot aimed to prevent placement and family breakdown among older children in and on the edge of care by developing social workers' skills to build trusting, consistent relationships with them.
Finland has a population of 5.5 million. Despite being a relatively wealthy country - its per capita output is equivalent to France - it has an unemployment rate of nearly 10 per cent and youth unemployment is double that level. Nearly one million Finns earn too little to cover their costs of living, with one in 10 children having welfare needs.
Parent partner programmes bring together parents whose children have been, or at risk of being, taken into care with parents who have previously been involved with welfare agencies and had a positive outcome.