The Partnership has updated the template for Pre-Birth Planning meetings as a result of a recent Non-Accidental Injuries learning review. Pre-birth Planning meetings identify the support needed around the labour, birth and stay in hospital of families who are open to Children’s Social Care. The meeting involves the family and key professionals supporting them, including

Over 80 practitioners and service providers, commissioners and interested others from across Somerset came together on 18th July to start to map, learn and collaborate around the needs of our young people in Somerset. We were particularly interested in improving their resilience and to improve school attendance while raising children’s aspirations focusing on what is

This two hour workshop is for any practitioner in Somerset who works with separated parents struggling with ongoing co-parenting conflict. This training is delivered by Ruth James (Reducing Parental Conflict Co-ordinator) who will share learning and top tips on reducing co-parenting conflict from her work with separated parents delivering Parenting Cafes and the Parenting When

“The Early Help Assessment is confusing! Is it a referral tool or a multi-agency assessment? “The assessment form is long winded, time consuming and creates unnecessary work. “We need a system which makes it easy to safeguard children, not makes it harder “Updating and maintaining the tool in its current format is resource heavy impacting