Services

Family Group Conferences

• Public Law Proceedings
• Private Law Proceedings
• Child Protection and Children in Need
• Planning for Young Persons Leaving Care
• Adult Services – Mental Health, Disabilities and the Elderly

Separated Parents Information Programme

The Separated Parents Information Programme is designed to enable separating parents to:
Explore and gain insight into the impact of separation and divorce upon their children and improve communication to enhance future parenting.

Assessments

• Parenting Assessments
• Viability Assessments
• Kinship Care Assessmentsi - Special Guardianship and Friends and Family
• International Assessments
• Pre-Court Assessments
• Standards of Care Investigations
• Age Assessments

Mentoring, Coaching and Consultancy

Confidential individual and group work with Social Workers and Managers in relation to:

• Workload, Stress and Risk Management
• Professional and Personal Development
• Team Building
• Career Guidance Counselling
• Performance Issues
• Goal Setting
• Confidence building

Whatever the intervention, the aim is always to enable individuals and teams to fulfil their potential and improve performance and effectiveness.

Mediation and Conflict Coaching

F4F provide a range of supportive, yet challenging processes, that enable service users to transform their own situation, so that the learning and change that they create is sustainable in the longer term. Unlike many support services, the purpose of Mediation and Conflict Coaching is to promote independence in the client rather than develop dependence upon ‘experts’ for the resolution of difficult relationships and situations.

Mediation and Conflict Coaching facilitates and supports creative thinking and problem solving which enables different responses to conflict to be identified.

Family Mediation can help where there are unresolved issues between separating parents, which may be impacting upon children. Increasingly, parents will be expected by the Court to have engaged in mediation in an attempt to reach agreed solutions and agreements.

Other Services

• Chairing Looked After Child Review Meetings
• Complaints Investigation
• Mediation
• Advocacy
• Life History Work