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Direct Work Kit Bag

Direct Work Kit Bag

The Family Early Help Direct Work Kit Bag contains a wealth of ideas for sessions and visits with families, whether to understand their world, hear the voice of the child, or to help them move towards their goals.

All of the resources, tools and activities in the Direct Work Kit Bag can be used remotely or face to face.

Some might need to be ordered and sent to you, or sent direct to the family with their permission. If you would like to order any materials or activities, please let your line manager know.

The Kit Bag is a knowledge exchange, and many of the resources have been sent in by family workers. Why not share your favourite direct work idea? Send your example to Becca so it can go in the Kit Bag to share with others

Remember there are lots of other tools and worksheets in the Resilient Families pack to help every stage of your work with a family. You can find the pack here https://ascpractice.camden.gov.uk/early-help-guide/resilient-families-practice/

Direct Work and the Rights of the Child

Every time you do a piece of work that enables the child's voice and opinion to be heard, you are helping them assert their rights, embodied in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (see particularly rights 12, 13 and 14).

Equally, when you do a piece of work that enables the parents voice and opinion to be heard, you are helping them achieve their rights embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (see rights 18 and 19).

Direct work is certainly not the only way to help children and families assert their human rights - but its an important aspect to direct work that doesn't often get talked about.

You can find more about the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and about the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights on the links below. 

UN Convention on the Rights of the Child

https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

Last updated: 01 November 2020