1. Welsh Government Family Support Megan Colley
Senior Manager of Policy and Engagement
Family Support Team
Directorate for Social Services and Children 1

2. Programme for Government
Key focus on supporting children, young people
and families:
Expanding Flying Start by doubling the number of children to 36,000
Supporting the roll out and implementation of Families First
Continuing the roll out of Integrated Family Support Teams

3. The Continuum of Support: Integration…
Protection
Prevention
Families With Additional Needs
Remedy
Families First will focus on the preventative and protective sections of the continuum of support.
Families with Complex Needs
This is where IFSS and statutory and specialist services will focus resources.
Families With No Additional Needs

4. Key changes for Family Support
Whole family approach
Strengths based model
Skilled and trained staff
Co-ordinated multi agency working
‘Early’ and appropriate intervention

5. Flying Start Prescriptive entitlement delivering:
Free quality, p/t childcare for 2-3 year-olds
Enhanced Health Visiting service
Access to parenting programmes and to
Language and Play sessions

6. Families First Key Elements Joint Assessment Family Framework (JAFF);
Team Around the Family model (TAF);
Strategic needs-based commissioning of services;
Shared learning; and
improved support for families with disabled children and young people

7. Families First and Family Learning
Flintshire
Work with Parents Qualification
Services Toolkit – resource pack for practitioners
Sex and Relationships Session – Family Links Nurturing Programme
Incredible Years material
Wrexham
Early intervention parenting workers – Family Learning facilitators
Families Learning Coordinator inclusion in FF development
Swansea
Agored Cymru level 1 (OCN) for parents attending parenting groups developed with Family Learning/Basic Skills team.

8. Further Information Local Information
Local CYPP or Families First Co-ordinator
Families First Team
Tel:
Website