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This page shares essential programme delivery and policy guidance for Supporting Families.
Information about the SFPC programme to help safely reduce the number of children entering care.
DCSF is now the Department for Education
Annual Official Statistics on the number and proportion of children living in low income families.
Statistics relating to separated families and their child maintenance arrangements.
This guidance sets out the objectives of Supporting Families in 2022 to 2025 and is for local authorities and their partners delivering Supporting Families.
Advice for local areas to embed working together to safeguard children and the children’s social care national framework in practice.
Information about the FFC pathfinder and family networks pilot (FNP) that will work with local authorities to deliver children’s social care reform.
Helplines providing advice and support to the families of people in prison - including the Prisoners' Families Helpline
A resource for best practice in school nursing and health visiting to support the delivery of the Healthy Child Programme.
A report examining the aims and achievements of the first Troubled Families Programme which ran from 2012 to 2015.
This guidance sets out the objectives of Supporting Families in 2021 to 2022 and is for local authorities and their partners delivering Supporting Families.
Support for local authorities applying to become a wave 2 area on the families first for children (FFC) pathfinder programme.
A refreshed policy narrative relating to the third iteration of the programme in 2021 to 2022 and beyond.
This publication sets out proposals to improve outcomes for children who grow up in workless families and face multiple disadvantages.
Find out about the grant-funded innovative projects element of the Reducing Parental Conflict programme.
Guidance on how government policy makers should apply the ‘family test’.
A resource to support local authorities, NHS commissioners and providers, voluntary and community sector organisations to take action to reduce obesity.
Local authorities’ funding for the children’s social care strengthening families, protecting children (SFPC) programme.
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