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Cardiff Council

A supportive home
In progress

Funding:

£500,000

Evaluation type:

Feasibility & Pilot study

Activity Type:

Contextual safeguarding

Setting:

Community

Evaluator:

Liverpool John Moores University

About the project

The purpose is to learn how different agencies can collaborate more effectively when supporting children, young people and their families.

Bringing together teams of skilled practitioners from a diverse range of local organisations and sectors. Including youth justice services, social care, the police, mental health services, probation, schools and the voluntary sector. Teams will operate from a single community venue, such as family hubs, schools and health settings. Working together, they’ll identify children and young people who are at risk of violence and criminal exploitation, assess the needs of them and their families, and provide targeted and tailored support.

Through the fund, the Council will put into action recommendations from the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care. The review calls for family support that is ‘more responsive, respectful and effective’ and cuts down the number of handovers between different services.

Project Protocol

About the round

  • Place-based grant round

    Grant:Agency Collaboration Fund: A supportive home

    In the second grant round of our Agency Collaboration Fund, the theme will be family support. We plan to fund and evaluate multi-agency support projects for children at risk of extra-familial harm.