Parenting Programme

Based around the Circle of Security principles, our 7-week parenting programme aims to enlighten parents to understand their child’s emotional world by learning to read emotional needs. This programme runs alongside Harvey Girls and Dads4Dads. Sessions will include insight on how to emotionally develop and support their child’s ability to successfully manage emotions, in addition to enhancing the development of their child’s self-esteem. Parents will learn about their child’s inherent desire to be secure and safe whilst exploring their inner emotions.

For children, Harvey Girls provides the opportunity to interact with others, have fun, get active, develop and enhance their communication and listening and enjoy learning new skills through new experiences. Harvey Girls is centred around sharing knowledge, experience, emotional, social or practical tips and guidance for the benefit of the whole family. Our Sessions adapt to the Seasons throughout the year and may include topical activities and other incentives that are driven by our clients’ needs

School Link Work (Abbot Beyne School)

(Abbot Beyne School)

Our School Link Work sees us work in partnership with local schools, to provide School Link Workers who work with pupils, parents and teachers towards achieving the following 6 aims:

1. Embed the ‘three R’s’ into our whole-family approach – Respectful, Responsible, Resilient.
2. Reduce barriers to attending school, in order to maximise resilience and for parents to be active, responsible participants in their child’s education.
3. Engage young people on pathways to maximise their own and their families’ attainment and aspirations, celebrating their positive outcomes with the family and the school.
4. Address the individual social, emotional and support needs of the whole-family, encouraging well-being and developing self-esteem and confidence.
5. Challenge and help the whole-family contribute to positive behaviour taking an active interest within school and their communities, enabling all family members to become responsible and respectful members of their community.
6. Empowering young people and their families to make appropriate choices.

School Link Workers help to promote good communication, improve attitudes to learning and create a safe place in school where pupils can have a voice. They help parents to understand the school’s attendance system, empowering them to encourage better attendance for their child. Our whole-family approach encourages sustainable change and routines, to improve punctuality, self-esteem, self-confidence, independence and resilience. This includes promotion of community projects or extra-curricular activities, such as homework clubs, helping the child to feel part of their school community.

Where appropriate, Transition Support is provided over summer to prospective pupils, where weekly meetings are held with the family to encourage a smooth transition into the next academic year.

Referrals to School Link Work are internal only via schools, as per arrangements with each school.

Be Well, Be Energy Fit (Cadent)

Be Well, Be Energy Fit aims to meet the changing needs of vulnerable families who are likely to face significant hardship in 2022 and beyond as a result of inflation and energy price rises.

The service offers outreach-based support in the family home or at community venues, offering support around family wellbeing, home energy, money and home safety, including CO (Carbon Monoxide) awareness.

A free CO monitor is provided as part of the support, helping to keep the home safe. In addition, a range of free merchandise is provided for children, including Cadent Vans and Teddy Bears.

For homeowners, a home safety check can be completed through free servicing of gas appliances (boilers, cookers, hobs and gas fires). A Cadent Gas Safe Engineer attends the property and services the gas appliances. These are completed at our discretion and professional judgement.

Income maximisation can be completed with the family to help with budgeting and consideration on how energy bills can be afforded.

Information and guidance can be provided on money saving and energy efficiency, including leaflets, learning about best use of appliances to reduce energy costs. Where appropriate, referrals are made to the NEA (National Energy Action) for additional support, grants or specialist advice.

Support also includes, where appropriate, a free Slow Cooker to help reduce energy costs for cooking on a budget, including Slow Cook sessions to learn how to get the best use out of Slow Cookers.

Referrals to ‘Be Well, Be Energy Fit’ are made online:

The Turnaround Programme

Referrals for the Turnaround Programme are for children & young people at risk of offending. Young people (and their families) join a time-limited programme of 12 weeks which is determined by the needs of the young person. The Programme involves an intensive programme, led by one member of staff, who will seek to work together with the whole family, friendships, education and the community.

We are flexible in our approach when working with each referral from the Turnaround Programme. This ensures that we cater our service to each individual and family’s needs. Our delivery consists of building rapport and trust so that we can identify what likes and strengths the child/young person has. This helps inform our planning and delivery of interventions for the service user. We also adopt a restorative practice model (doing it with people and not to them). This compliments our whole family approach, informed from the outcomes of the two circle review meetings. We think ‘outside the box’ offering a tailored approach every time to the child and family’s strengths and needs. We plan to build the whole family’s self-confidence and self-esteem by offering support to the family within the home and in the community.

We offer 1-2-1, group and a mix of sessions when working with young people on the Turnaround Programme. These can take place at our Horninglow office, Family HUB at Abbot Beyne or at our alternative site; Beyond Black Belt.

Jack The Therapy Dog

Jack the Therapy Dog is a service that can be requested for use in a variety of settings, for example schools, nurseries, health and social care or community venues.

Use of a Therapy Dog can bring a wide range of benefits, in particular (but not limited to) children with SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities).

Interaction between children and animals can play a big part in a child’s development, developing their social and emotional skills. Over a period of time, Therapy Dogs can help to reduce anxiety, lower feelings of isolation and help children with speech and emotional disorders.

Family Voice Staffordshire

Family Voice Staffordshire aims to improve outcomes and services in all areas of the lives of children, young people and their parents/carers, for the benefit of families across Staffordshire.

By placing parents/carers and their children at the centre, Family Voice Staffordshire offers a supportive, non-judgemental platform that empowers families to have a voice and be heard.

The key aims and outcomes are:

1. To ensure that public money gets spent appropriately
2. To enable family voices to be heard
3. To provide information and guidance to families

Family Voice Staffordshire is not a political campaign group and has no political affiliation or backing. However, it seeks to invoke and include prominent local figures such as MPs, Borough Councillors and County Councillors.

By being ‘switched-on’ and responsive to the big issues affecting families, Family Voice Staffordshire will be the most effective, trusted and reliable platform in Staffordshire for capturing and reflecting families’ views in ‘real-time’.

Family Voice Staffordshire operates through five main channels:
surveys, focus groups, sessions, seminars and webinars.

Children and Young People’s (CYP) Flexible Framework: (SEND)

The Children and Young People’s (CYP) Flexible Framework (SEND) provides a ‘Whole Family Approach’ informed from the outcomes of the ‘Outcome Star Assessment’ and information shared upon referral.  This Framework follows a restorative practice model i.e. working with people rather than doing things for them.

On this framework the CYP’s self-confidence and self-esteem is built by offering them support within their place of education, home and community.  We work with the whole family (which can include a parenting programme) to achieve the targeted outcomes.

We support the whole family by helping each family member to recognise the role that they play in supporting each other to reach their full potentials.  We advise on how best they can do this by helping them work towards purposeful, sustainable and achievable goals.

We work with primary and secondary aged CYP’s and their families.  We  deliver a targeted family support intervention that has a tailored approach to the individual CYP and their family’s strengths and needs.  Our delivery consists of building rapport and trust so that we can identify the CYP’s likes and strengths which then inform our planning and intervention delivery.

Referrals are received from Staffordshire County Council.

Connect Line

Connect Telephone Line:  Tel:  07841 485866, Open 09:30 – 17:30,

(Voice messages can be left 24/7)

A service offering information and guidance around strategies, offering a supportive and empathetic solution-focused telephone line. The Connect Line is not a crisis line. Anyone can call without requiring a referral; the Connect Line serves as the first point of contact where families can receive information or signposting to our preferred partners. This also serves as a gateway into our core service offer of Family Support and Thinking Differently. The Connect Telephone Line will help to reduce isolation and loneliness, ‘somewhere to turn’ which will be a vital service offer to re-engage local families following COVID-19.