Family Safety Guidelines
Child and Family Solutions is a Child Protection Consultancy based in Bristol, UK. We provide expert assessment services to statutory authorities and the Court, also to individuals, using an approach that builds upon many years' experience in Child Protection work and is informed by a Systemic Family Psychotherapy perspective. We specialise in the Resolutions approach to risk reduction in child protection cases where abuse is denied.
Written Family Safety Guidelines are agreed in collaboration with the carers. These guidelines are the framework that will at all times regulate the conduct of adults who have contact with the children.
Family Safety Guidelines:
- identify roles and responsibilities of Primary Carer and Supportive Carer
- explain the roles of other supportive safe adults around the child
- seek to ensure that parents can have positive and safe contact with children
- explore possible scenarios and suggest alternative strategies to assist everyone involved in the child’s care.
- work to avoid muddles and misunderstandings about what is required of all the adults around the child
- make sure everyone involved is clear about the lines of communication between family members, extended family and professionals
- require all the family members involved to sign the guidelines and agree to follow them
The guidelines may include:
- rules for contact between adults and children in the family home and outside
- who must supervise contact
- rules for overnight stays away from the family home
- do's and don'ts governing intimate contact with children by adults, such as bathing, playing etc.
- rules for ensuring the child's privacy
- who will listen to the child's worries and muddles
The Guidelines are written informally, using the family's own names for things and people.
The Family Safety Guidelines are also explained as part of the 'Words and Pictures' for the children.
To contact Child and Family Solutions, click here.
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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 TherapyMargaret 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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