This resource pack designed by CaritasCare and Adoption Matters is a practical guide for all workers facilitating early permanence family time. It is a guide for best practice, which LA’s/ RAA’s can use within their own resources and through following the guidance in this document, LA’s should be able to evidence and meet standards as outlined above.
The purpose of this resource pack is to support practitioners to facilitate a good quality, warm and nurturing environment during family time. It will help establish positive relationships by handovers, which are safely and appropriately managed by family time workers. It will give family time workers the skills to support and facilitate a high-quality experience for children, their parents and carers by scaffolding relationships.
It will ensure consistency between RAA’s and family time workers so early permanent family time is delivered in the best and consistent way to support parents and carers but ultimately to maintain a safe and positive experience for children. This guide is designed to give some practical advice for managing contact. It is not an exhaustive list but some general hints and tips based on what we have found had worked well with our model. Each Local Authority will manage contact in a different way but hopefully the common themes of communication, consistency, relationships and empathy can be adopted in order to make family time within early permanence placements a positive experience for all involved.
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