{"id":31090,"date":"2026-07-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/?p=31090"},"modified":"2026-06-17T10:45:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T09:45:40","slug":"norfolks-family-help-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2026\/07\/09\/norfolks-family-help-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Norfolk\u2019s Family Help model:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Championing Families First Partnerships<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The&nbsp;Families First&nbsp;Partnership&nbsp;programme&nbsp;aims&nbsp;to transform how support for families is delivered across England.&nbsp;This includes implementing Family&nbsp;Help and multi-agency child protection reforms and increasing&nbsp;support for family networks.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.researchinpractice.org.uk%2Fchildren%2Fnews-views%2F2026%2Fjune%2Fnorfolk-s-family-help-model-championing-families-first-partnerships%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CAcademic.Library%40lscft.nhs.uk%7Cafe33ff765f542ae4ba208decba00646%7C0418b648afb0430094ba33f2b09eb31f%7C1%7C0%7C639172085336039005%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=faXMD7znQ%2Fz1%2FlOTv2qJx4f8io6KIBgpQVXelkz5hG0%3D&amp;reserved=0\"><strong>new blog<\/strong><\/a>, Jen Dewar, Assistant Director for Family Help, Care and Protection within Norfolk Children\u2019s Services, shares Norfolk\u2019s Family Help model, an approach that&nbsp;<strong>aims to provide more responsive, inclusive family support<\/strong>. She outlines key elements of Norfolk&#8217;s model and the impact this has had on practice.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following an Ofsted inspection in February 2026,&nbsp;<strong>Norfolk Children&#8217;s Services was graded as outstanding across all five categories<\/strong>. The report, published in May, highlights the successful implementation of the Family Help model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Read more here:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.researchinpractice.org.uk%2Fchildren%2Fnews-views%2F2026%2Fjune%2Fnorfolk-s-family-help-model-championing-families-first-partnerships%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7CAcademic.Library%40lscft.nhs.uk%7Cafe33ff765f542ae4ba208decba00646%7C0418b648afb0430094ba33f2b09eb31f%7C1%7C0%7C639172085336073272%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=QJSMBFd1AajkvrHmCcjLNJ227aCI7%2Fd7QSwXt1DoOvY%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Championing Families First Partnerships in Norfolk | Research in Practice<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">from Research in Practice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Championing Families First Partnerships The&nbsp;Families First&nbsp;Partnership&nbsp;programme&nbsp;aims&nbsp;to transform how support for families is delivered across England.&nbsp;This includes implementing Family&nbsp;Help and multi-agency child protection reforms and increasing&nbsp;support for family networks. In a&nbsp;new blog, Jen Dewar, Assistant Director for Family Help, Care and Protection within Norfolk Children\u2019s Services, shares Norfolk\u2019s Family Help model, an approach that&nbsp;aims to provide &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/2026\/07\/09\/norfolks-family-help-model\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Norfolk\u2019s Family Help model:&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[44,223],"tags":[1223,3024,8037,5657],"class_list":["post-31090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-child-protection","category-research","tag-child-protection","tag-inclusion","tag-parents-and-children","tag-support-program"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31090"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31094,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31090\/revisions\/31094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lihnnhs.info\/lancashirecarelibraryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}