Consultations

Family Wellbeing Consultation

Why might we offer to facilitate a Wellbeing Consultation?

When unmet needs are unclear, a consultation can help to explore all areas of wellbeing, making it easier to identify who and what might help. It can also clarify each person's role in addressing concerns.

Purpose

The Family Wellbeing Consultation aims to:

Bring significant people together to measure wellbeing: Understanding each other's perspectives can lead to better outcomes for all.
Ensure transparency: Families and professionals should understand expectations without hidden agendas.
Give families a voice: Families should feel listened to and respected.
Explore strengths and areas of concern: Honest discussions about worries help target areas for improving wellbeing.
Compile a Wellbeing Overview: Gathering everyone's views helps create a comprehensive support document.

Important: The consultation is an outcome of an RFA in and of itself, and does not always result in a further offer of support from Fit Like.

For the consultation to be helpful, we rely on the existing team around the child to consent to the process, provide us with all contact details for those relevant to the child / family and prepare for the meeting by considering the wellbeing tool.

The Team Around the Child (TAC) are the family themselves and all those relevant to the family.

Measuring Wellbeing

Summary: The facilitator will summarise the current situation and the reasons for the consultation, using information from the Initial Conversation and the Request for Assistance. This summary sets the scene, highlighting both worries and strengths.
Wellbeing Measure Tool: We will discuss each wellbeing indicator. You can share your thoughts verbally or use post-it notes. Reasons for your ratings help us understand your perspective.
Discussion: Open discussion is encouraged. We will read each wellbeing indicator and its description clearly, using prompt cards if necessary. Appreciative inquiry techniques will be used to value individual opinions, acknowledge conflicts, and remind everyone of shared goals.
Summary: We will summarise the content, focusing on positives and acknowledging participation.

Recording

We will have someone taking minutes to focus on sharing information. These minutes will form the basis of a Wellbeing Overview, which will be shared with everyone present.

Closing Meeting

Next steps:

We will use the shared information to create a Wellbeing Overview.
The summary and possible interventions section will be populated based on the information provided, focusing on strengths, resilience, risks, and vulnerabilities.
The completed overview will be shared with the family first, allowing them to amend their views or advise on the manageability of possible interventions before sharing with professionals.

Wellbeing Tool

Key:

1. Stuck

2. Getting Started

3. Making Changes

4. Settled and Doing Well

5. Confident and Moving Forward

Safe

· Growing up in an environment where you feel secure, nurtured, listened to.

· Where you are supported with and given opportunities to develop.

· Where you are looked after and safe from harm (physical and emotional).

Healthy

· Being in good physical and mental health.

· Support to access suitable healthcare

· Support in learning to make healthy and safe choices.

Achieving

· Being supported to develop your learning, personality, talents, and abilities to the full.

· Being supported and guided in the development of your confidence and self-esteem, at home, in school and in the community.

Nurtured

· Being loved and cared for.

· Being in an environment where relationships provide connection, compassion, security and warmth.

· Having the support to develop resilience and a positive identity.

Active

· Having the opportunity to relax, play and take part in a wide range of physical, cultural and artistic activities.

· Taking part in activities that contribute to healthy growth and development, at home, in school and in the community.

Respected

· Being involved in and having your voice heard in decisions that affect your life, with support where appropriate.

· Encourage your respect for human rights, as well as respect for your parents, your own and other cultures, and the environment.

Responsible

· Having opportunities and encouragement to play active and responsible roles at home, in school and in the community.

· Being dependable and understanding the impact of decisions on others and ourselves.

· Being provided with and able to accept help when needed.

Included

· Feeling a sense of belonging; within your family, your school and your community.

Wellbeing Dialogue

As an outcome from Request for Assistance the Additional Support Needs and Outreach team may offer a Wellbeing Team Dialogue. The Requester would be invited to contact the Wellbeing Team Lead to arrange a time when discussion with the wider Wellbeing leadership team could take place. The Wellbeing Team Dialogue can result in advice/signposting, exploration of unmet needs or consideration of direct support.

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