Community Service Volunteers’ (CSV) Volunteers in Child Protection scheme, which has been endorsed by children’s minister Tim Loughton, is running in Bromley, Lewisham, Southend and Coventry, and is due to launch in Cambridge in April.
Research by Anglia Ruskin University found the scheme improves mothers’ and children’s emotional wellbeing and reduces the need for high-level child protection interventions.
CSV matches volunteers to families in which there is at least one child on a child protection plan and trains, screens and supervises them.
An analysis of 37 families in Southend Council’s scheme found 87 per cent of cases were moved to a lower level of safeguarding concern on the Common Assessment Framework (CAF) after receiving support from the programme. This includes 11 families who were removed from child protection plans altogether.
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