Family Support Service
Bringing up children is exciting and enjoyable but can, from time to time, also be demanding.
We work alongside children, parents and carers to offer advice and support.
- Family support assessment
- Support and opportunities
- How we provide family support
- Your involvement
- Support groups
- Further information.
Family support assessment
We will need to assess your child and family needs to confirm if we are able to offer you a service. Your involvement and input in this assessment is important.
|Back to topSupport and opportunities
We offer
- support to your family to enable you to live together better
- opportunities for you as parents and carers to learn new skills
- opportunities for young children to learn through play
- support to help you cope with your children better
- opportunities for you to learn how to deal with problems and become more confident
- services that recognise that all children and adults have different needs, and to respond to those needs
- support and services that work with you to protect your children from harm.
How we provide family support
We provide family support by
- talking to you and your children to find out what services might be best for you
- offering a mixture of services to suit your particular family
- recognising that you and your children have multi-cultural, religious and linguistic needs
- working in partnership with you to recognise that, as parents, you have prime responsibility for your children
- signposting you to other community services
- working with you to assess how to return children safely home when they have not been able to live with you
- offering support to enable you and your family to live safely together.
Your involvement
We are committed to working in partnership to enable you to parent your children so that they reach their full potential. This includes
- sharing information on assessments and services
- consulting with you, and taking into account you and your family's views in the provision of services
- planning and making decisions with your active participation.
Support groups
- Disabled children's team
- Home intervention service
- Family support centre
- Respite care centre
- Travelling community team
- Young carers
You can find information on these and other services in the Family Information Services Directory.
You can also download leaflets as Attached Files at the foot of this page.
|Back to topFurther information
Family Support Service
40 Cumberland Road
Wood Green
N22 7SG
Tel 020 8489 3671
Fax 020 8489 3688
