Keeping Children Safe in their families
What We Do
Child and Family Solutions is a Child Protection Consultancy based in Bristol, UK, specialising in the Resolutions approach to risk reduction in child protection cases where abuse is denied.
We provide expert witness and assessment services to the Court and Local Authorities, using an approach that builds upon extensive experience in Child Protection work and is informed by a Systemic Family Psychotherapy perspective.
 Download an Introduction to Our Services in PDF format
Services Available:
- Risk reduction assessment informed by the Resolutions approach
- Specialising in assessment of families where parental denial of abuse is an issue
- Assessment in family proceedings where there are serious concerns about the future safety of children
- A systemic approach to risk reduction assessment
- Assessment of adults, children, parents, carers, members of extended family and friends as appropriate, in an individual or group context
- For 'stuck' cases, assessment within statutory and legal frameworks of the suitability of parents and families for the safe return of children to their families
The Principal of Child and Family Solutions, Margaret Hiles M.Sc., Dip. SW., CQSW, Cert Man. Org., is a UKCP Registered Systemic Family Psychotherapist and a Member of the Association for Family Therapy, with many years' experience of working with children and their families, and a background of senior posts in Child Protection Social Work.
To contact Child and Family Solutions, please call, fax or email Margaret - contact details are at top of page - or click here for surface mail address and other contact details.
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Books, Papers & Articles
Margaret Hiles, Susie Essex, Dr. Amanda Fox & Colin Luger
The Words and Pictures Storyboard:
Making Sense for
Children and Families
Paper published June 2008 in
Context, the Magazine of the
Association of Family Therapy
Margaret Hiles & Colin Luger
The Resolutions approach:
working with denial in
child protection cases
Paper published 2006 in
Journal of Systemic Therapies
Andrew Turnell & Susie Essex
Working with Denied Child Abuse:
the resolutions approach
Margaret Hiles
Research paper (2002):
How do parents explain the contribution of the Resolutions programme to their task in the parenting and protection of their children?
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