Family Support and Safeguarding Service in the south:

Family Support.

Teams:

Chinnbrook:

Manager Caroline Ward

Email

Duty line: 0121 675 7664

Doddington:

Manager Simon Field

Email

Duty line: 0121 675 4150

Merrishaw:

Manager Lucy Collinge-Hill

Email:

Duty line: 0121 303 8057

Reameadow:

Manager Martin Ogbourn

Email:

Duty line: 0121 675 0511

Family Support Work:

Our work is in line with the Early Help Strategy which follows the principles of:

  • Prevention
  • Integration
  • Aspiration
  • Safeguarding
  • Participation
  • Excellence through partnership working

Our work fits in with the Right Service Right Time model (see Birmingham Safeguarding Board website birmingham.org.uk).

We can provide support where a child has additional needs, and also alongside specialists services where a child has complex/ significant needs.

We always need parental consent for us to work with a family.

Service Priorities

  • Working with families who meet the Think Family criteria and in particular those families where there is evidence of poor school attendance, worklessness and parenting issues.
  • Working with families to minimise the impact to well being of children due to parental domestic abuse, mental health, drugs and alcohol use
  • Working with children where there are early indications of neglect
  • Prevention of family breakdown
  • Joint work with Children Social Care teams where the Family Support team can offer a specific input which will improve outcomes for the child.

How to make a referral

Referrals can be made to us by carrying out a CAF assessment with the family. If you need guidance you can ring the CAF team on 0121 303 1888.

Please then post the CAF, ringing the relevant duty line for advice of the postal address.

We will then take this to the next TAF meeting and invite you to attend with a 20 min timeslot. Partners and ourselves around the table will then identify the best support to meet the child’s needs.

You can also refer a Think Family to us by filling out the Think family referral sheet and sending it to the TF data team and letting us know once you have been given a TF reference number. All you then need to do is arrange a meeting with the parents, yourselves and our worker and we will carry out the CAF assessment and lead the work.

South TAF meetings

To attend please call the relevant duty line to discuss if you need to book a time.

  1. Doddington TAF

Normally fortnightly on Mondays 1:30-3:30pm. Held at Doddington Children's Centre

22 (Tuesday) April

6(Tuesday) and 19 May

2,16 and 30 June

14 and 28 July

11 and 25 August

  1. Reameadow TAF

Fortnightly on a Thursday at 2pm. Held at Reameadow Children's Centre

17 April

1, 15 & 29 May,

12 & 26 June

10 & 24 July

7 & 21 August

  1. Chinnbrook TAF

On a Tuesday 1:30 - held at Maypole Children's Centre

15 and 29 April

13 and 27 May

10 and 24 June

8 and 22 July

5 and 19 August

  1. Merrishaw TAF

Fortnightly on a Wednesday 10-11.30 held at Merrishaw Children`s Centre

April 9, 23

May 7, 21

June 4, 18

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