Family Support & Assess with SWFS

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Our Family Support & Assessment Service delivers intensive, home‑based intervention to help families achieve the best possible outcomes during Family Court care proceedings.

Over a structured 12‑week period, a dedicated team led by a parent‑assess‑trained practitioner works directly within the family home, offering practical, real‑life support while gaining an authentic understanding of day‑to‑day routines, strengths, and challenges.

This immersive approach builds long‑term engagement with professionals, strengthens the natural support networks around families, and results in a meaningful assessment that helps courts and practitioners make informed decisions. By working in the real world rather than in a residential or short‑session community setting, we create the conditions for genuine change and clearer insight into a family’s capacity to care safely.

We focus on the future.

At the heart of the service is hands‑on support and coaching—an alternative to traditional community‑based parenting assessments that may only offer a few hours of assessment each week. Our model enables families to remain together while receiving consistent guidance, structure, and encouragement from a dedicated team committed to helping them succeed.

Although the cost of this intensive programme is at first glance quite significant it is far more favourable when balanced against the combined expense of supervised contact, multiple parenting assessments and foster care placements. More importantly, it offers something those individual services cannot: a single, cohesive intervention that supports families in the long term and strengthens their engagement with professionals well into the future.

By investing early in a comprehensive home‑based approach, local authorities can reduce both immediate and future costs while giving families the best possible chance to stay safely together.