Dorset, Lincolnshire and Wolverhampton councils will be the first to deliver the Families First for Children (FFC) programme.
Based on the government’s response to the Care Review, Stable homes, built on love, it is designed to “test new ways to reform every part of the children’s social care system, helping children to stay with their families in safe and loving homes, whilst protecting vulnerable children where needed”.
Backed by just under £40m in funding, it will test a move towards locally based, multi-disciplinary family help services and a shift towards the review’s aim of “keeping families together” through an increased use of family group decision-making.
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