Functional Family Therapy Service

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The Government is committed to supporting local partnerships to sustain and develop evidence based interventions that are cost effective in tackling the needs of looked after children and children on the edge of care or custody and their families. One of the successful interventions is Functional Family Therapy, (FFT). This programme has helped some very vulnerable children and their families to start to recover and to turn their lives around.
Outcomes for children in care tend overall to be poor, especially for children who come into care at an older age and/or suffer significant disruption. Many children will eventually return to their birth families after significant periods of separation, often finding it difficult to reintegrate into their family and community
Both the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) and the Department for Education (DfE) have recognised the need to address and ‘turn around’ the lives of troubled families. Troubled families are described as those with multiple disadvantages, for example – where no one is in employment, adults who have low qualification levels, live in poor housing and have illness or disability or mental health issues. Such families will present to a number of agencies with complex problems such as being engaged in crime, truanting from education, drug misuse and are characterised by disruptive and difficult relationships within the community. The Government has challenged Local Government to identify, engage and intervene in these families to ‘turn them around’.
FFT is a treatment/parenting intervention which requires model fidelity, clinical supervision and consultation. There is increasing evidence that if delivered with fidelity to the appropriate population. FFT can reduce the need for a child to enter care or custody, or move into more intensive or costly placements, care or education. For some children FFT can reduce the length of time children are placed away from home. The implementation of any evidence based model, however, requires careful design, strong project management and support especially in the early stages. Effective stakeholder engagement, both operationally and strategically will be key to success.

Gloucestershire County Council – Claire Smart
Shire Hall, Westgate Street,
GL1 2TR Gloucester
UNITED KINGDOM