Working Well with Children & Families Part 3

This guide is for everyone who works with children and young people and their families in Blackpool. It should not be read in isolation – it sits alongside Parts 1 and 2 of the Working Well with Children and Families guide which is for everyone working in Lancashire.

It is publicly available for anyone to access, and is particularly key for organisations including:

• Health services
• The Police
• Local Authorities
• Early Years, Schools, Alternative Education and College settings
• Services supporting adults who care for, or have children in their households, such as Adult Social Care, Substance Misuse, Probation and community health services .
• Providers of support for children and their families in our local communities, such as leisure services and community safety and housing providers
• Voluntary and community led organisations supporting children, young people and families

This guide talks about how agencies work together to support children and their families in Blackpool, to build on their strengths, seeking to support children to remain living safely within stable and loving families wherever possible. It is designed to ensure that we give families who are experiencing challenges the advice, information and support they need that helps them make a positive and long term differences to their lives.

In Blackpool we have developed with our families a series of principles that guide our work, we call this “Blackpool Families Rock”.

Working Well with Children & Families in Blackpool