Mother-of-three Caroline Maggs was so traumatised by the death of her father that she became unable to care for her children properly.
Staff at her local children's centre noticed her distress and encouraged her to seek counselling and attend parenting courses, setting her on the road to recovery.
The support she received was "a life saver", says Maggs — and is just one example of the highly effective prevention work happening within Lincolnshire County Council's children's services, rated "outstanding" in Ofsted's latest inspection of safeguarding.
Inspectors highlighted the fact that decisive intervention and multi-agency co-ordination — like that which helped save the Maggs family from crisis — is "helping to reduce the number of children entering the care system, against a national trend of rising admissions".
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