CYP Now - Government commits to taking forward Conservatives’ family help model

A model of early family help initiated by Conservative ministers when they were in office is being taken forward by the government, children’s minister Janet Daby has confirmed.

Janet Daby: ‘I very much believe in early intervention like keeping families together’ - UK Parliament

The model had been backed by the former Conservative government in last year’s Stable Homes, Built on Love policy document, which was published in response to recommendations made two years ago in Josh MacAlister’s Independent Review of Children’s Social Care.

This month, in answer to a parliamentary question from Labour MP for Stoke-On-Trent Central Gareth Snell on support for parents where children are at risk of being taken into care, Darby gave the Labour government’s strongest backing yet for the Family Help model.

She said the model is “central” to its plans to overhaul children’s social care, adding that it “builds on best practice from well-evidenced programmes”.

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