Family Early Help

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/

Saying It My Way

This booklet from Barnados has an extensive range of tools, worksheets and activities to support getting to know the child, young person and parent, and to help you make sense of their world. Importantly, it focusses on finding out what the child likes and dislikes (e.g. sport, music, drawing, reading, dancing, TV etc) and tailoring the direct work to their likes.

Individual worksheets can be printed/cut and paste and sent via email or Mailsmart.

Saying It My Way

My World Workbook

can be printed and sent, emailed or photo taken and shared via text or whatsapp. Series of sections to help a child tell us about their world

This is My World

Exploring Me

a wide range of direct work tools to use to help get to know a child, parent and family – a PDF with individual pages that can be shown on a phone, printed and sent or emailed. Could also be drawn by the child or the worker and shown on a video call.

Exploring Me - Voice of the Child Book

How It Looks to Me

This is an exploring/understanding/making sense booklet from Cafcass but it has some nicely illustrated sections that you could use for ways to explore a childs hopes, wishes and feelings

How It Looks to Me

Last updated: 01 November 2020