Consultancy on developing a systemic, trauma-informed, and anti-racist approach to Families First Partnership Reform programme

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The DfE Families First reforms require that we embed a consistent approach to practice across our multi-agency partnership. We will engage with partners to agree shared core values and principles to enable us to achieve our vision will form the basis of our agreed practice approach. Within Children and Education, our agreed approach is Systemic, Trauma-Informed, and Anti-Racist (STAR). We have made strides in some areas of this and have greater work to do across others to truly embed this across our Directorate. The Family’s First Reforms provide us with a unique opportunity to embed our STAR practice approach to achieve coherence stretching across the experiences of our children and families all the way through to our experiences of leadership and the organisational context. Taking this opportunity will require a degree of expert consultation from the outset of the programme to offer coaching, guidance, training and constructive challenge to enable the Families First Partnership Board, the C&E Senior Leadership team and the programme team to achieve the ambition of a coherent practice approach across the partnership. Expert consultation will involve: ? Co-design and Strategy Development: Working collaboratively with programme leaders, staff, and service users (including families), the consultancy would co-design a strategy for reform, grounded in the core principles of systemic, trauma-informed and anti-racist principles ? Training and Capacity Building: A significant component of the consultancy's work would be providing training and capacity-building learning and development including: ? Developing skills in systemic, trauma-informed, and anti-racist leadership and practice, including recognizing the signs of trauma across organisations and our capacity and opportunities for change ? Embodying systemic, trauma-informed, and anti-racist practice when working directly with children and families, key partner agencies and colleagues across the services ? Implementation Support and Coaching: The consultancy would provide ongoing support during the implementation phase of the reforms. This could include coaching for leaders, facilitating learning communities, and providing guidance on navigating challenges that arise. ? Monitoring and Evaluation: The consultancy would help to establish milestones and outcomes for our partnership to measure itself against the agreed practice approach. ? Embedding a Culture of Continuous Learning: A key goal of the consultancy would be to help the Family Help programme develop a culture of continuous learning and improvement role modelled by senior leads across our partnership holding up high standards and expectations of practice with colleagues, stakeholders, and most importantly with our children and families Keywords: Consultancy, Anti Racism