Family Focus Team
c/o The Avenues Children’s Centre
Sixth Avenue
York, YO31 0UT
The Family Focus
Programme and Team
Information for Practitioners
01904 555707
Linda Murphy (Service Manager)
01904 555900, 07824 550162
Martine Eddon (Senior Practitioner)
01904 553833, 07833 048116
Hilary Mennell (Practitioner)
01904 555406, 07748 320700
Sinead Tingley (Practitioner)
01904 553524, 07534 435522
Ian Whittaker (Practitioner)
01904 555652, 07717 272198
Teresa Robinson (Health Adviser)
01904 553841, 07825 078213
Andy Long (DWP Adviser)
01904 555632, Mob: 07775 410524
One Family
One Worker ~ One Plan
What is the Family Focus
Programme?
Are you and your team
‘Thinking Family’ yet?
The Family Focus
Programme aims to
support families who have
multiple and often complex needs through a whole
family approach.
York has already supported 315 York families to improve
their lives and in April 2015 the programme was
expanded and is expected to support a further 1,030
families over 5 years.
The expanded programme will support families with a
wider range of needs, including:
1.Parents and children involved in crime or anti-social
behaviour.
2.Children who have not been attending school regularly.
3.Children who need help: children of all ages, who need
help, are identified as in need or are subject to a Child
Protection Plan.
4.Adults out of work or at risk of financial exclusion or
young people at risk of worklessness.
5.Families affected by domestic violence and abuse.
6.Parents and children with a range of health problems.
Families eligible for the programme are identified through
the merging of data from partners across the city and it is
then the role of the Family Focus Team to ensure that
each family identified has a lead practitioner from a
relevant service working with them.
What does a Lead Practitioner for a
family on the programme do?
1. Ensures a family have given consent for
their involvement in the programme
2. Undertakes a whole family assessment,
with the support of partners, to identify
any issues for every family member.
3. Develops with the family and
relevant agencies a whole family
action plan to address the needs of
every family member in a timely and
co-ordinated manner.
4. Co-ordinates the services/interventions
to avoid the family getting overwhelmed.
5. Through regular review meetings,
monitors the progress of the action
plan with the family and the team
around the family.
6. Provides relevant information
to the Family Focus Programme leads,
in line with the requirements of the
national programme .
7. Develops a robust exit plan when
stopping work with a family to ensure
ongoing appropriate support is available
as required to allow the family to continue
to sustain progress and build on this.