FOI request (FOI211669)

Troubled Families

Requested Wed 05 April 2017
Responded Wed 05 April 2017

1.    Does the work of your Troubled Families programme(s) include help for parents to work through difficulties in their couple relationships as well as with their parenting skills? If yes, please describe in as much detail as possible what work is typically done with couples.

2.    Do you use any specific programmes and/or refer to external agencies e.g. Relate, or is help delivered directly by keyworkers working within the Troubled Families programme?

3.    Do you provide any Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)? If yes:

a.    Do your CAMHS workers routinely collect information on the background circumstances of children and young people presenting with mental health services in particular with regard to exposure to intense, unresolved and frequent parental conflict (violent and non-violent) or experience of the breakdown of their parents' relationship, and if so, how?

b.    When and if negative family circumstances such as parental conflict and relationship breakdown are considered to be implicated in their children's mental health problems, are parents i) seen by the services treating the child or young person and/or ii) routinely referred to other services such as Relate?

c.    If the answer to either part of 3.b is yes, how many parents have been seen in CAMHS or referred to other services in the last year?

Response

Information not held

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