Introduction to Blackpool's Families Rock request for support hub

Target audience

This session is aimed at practitioners who work as part of universal service or provide an early help service across the whole of Lancashire who are working with both Children and families. Also practitioners who need to gain an understanding of the Blackpool processes for the request for support hub.

Date

Time

Registration

Venue

Course code

25/03/2021	10:00am - 12:00pm	9:45am	Microsoft Teams	BSB1821
28/04/2021	12:00pm - 14:00pm	11:45am	Microsoft Teams	BSB1822
20/05/2021	10:00am - 12:00pm	9:45am	Microsoft Teams	BSB1823

Aims

The aim of this session is to provide participants with an overview of the Blackpool Families Rock request for support hub, introducing it's function, agencies which sit within this hub and what their roles and responsibilities are. Within this session we will be sharing details of the new online referral form, exploring what makes a 'good' referral, what the referral would entail, and what happens thereafter.

Objectives

By the end of the session the course participants will have been informed how:

• To explain which agencies do and do not sit in the Request for Support Hub and their responsibilities.
• To complete a referral to The Request for Support Hub on the new online referral form which allows Children’s Services to respond as quickly as possible to the identified issues.
• To describe what happens when a referral is received and what possible outcome there may be to a referral.
• To use both the Advice Line and Duty Line.

Please make a note of the course title, code and date - these are needed for the application form.