An Analysis of Family Support Services for Vulnerable Families

This report investigates the effectiveness of family support services for vulnerable families, emphasizing the importance of assessment, interventions, and support frameworks. The study explores the critical role of risk assessment in identifying and addressing potential harm to children, including ecological, individual, and family risk factors. It details a range of interventions, such as social service engagement, child maltreatment interventions, and domestic violence programs, to maintain the family unit and promote child well-being. The report also examines various support frameworks used when working with vulnerable families and children, including the Victorian government's commitments and the Child Well-being and Safety Act 2005, which aim to create a safe and supportive environment for children. The conclusion highlights the significance of professional practices and support systems in fostering children's development and well-being. The report is based on the case study of a single mother and her son where the mother suffers from mental trauma and the son's behaviour is becoming uncontrollable.

What works in family supports
services for vulnerable families

INTRODUCTION
The importance of family life can not be under estimated. Family is very necessary for
every individual for a healthy relationship for a better well-being of children and adults as well
as for society. Besides, some families face enormous stresses and strains which, without some
outside help support can be harmful to the children and adults involved. Present study will be
based on what works in family support services for vulnerable families. This report based on the
case study of single mother who live with their son. Her ex-partner loves their son but not living
in the home. On the other hand, Mum is suffering from mental trauma that affect their pgysical
health and was house-bound. Due to which his son behavior is become uncontrollable. Overall,
study will be going to discuss the importance of assessment when working with families or
presents some risk that harm to children.
MAIN BODY
1. Discussing the importance of assessment when working with families that presents risks of
harm to children.
Understanding the risk and protective measures for child is very much necessary for
parents (Atkins and et.al., 2016). It is useful for parents to develop effective and preventive early
intervention strategies and identifying families who are most likely to benefit from additional
support. Several Child protective covering authorities in Ireland use specific risk classification
instrument to determine if a child is at risk of maltreatment or not. Professional who work with
families can benefit from a broad understanding through which they place children risk of harm.
There are certain risk factors has involved in the families where child get ignored or
abuse. Risk factors are not caused by child abuse and neglect. As per the present case due to
mum suffering from mental illness his son behavior is become uncontrollable due to which he
dropped down 50% attendance in class (Bogenschneider, 2014). With the help of risk assessment
instruments workers evaluate families conditions. Those tools can also helps to provide proper
structure for current and future harm to the child.
On the basis of international research factors for child abuse and neglect. In order to
evaluate the risk factor and try to remove all measuring factors affect the best productive task for
better child awareness. As per the much research has found risk factors for child abuse and
disregard. Different risk cause relate contrary forms of maltreatment (Carr, 2014). However,
there are many risk factor harm to child at individual, family, social level.
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Ecological level Risk Factors
Individual child factor  Child disability
 Child temperature or behavior
 Low birth weight.
Social child factor  Due to sociology economic
disadvantage.
 Neighborhood disadvantage.
 Lack of per-natal care
 Protection stress
 Lack of approach to social activity.
 Parental unemployment
Family / Parental factors  Parental substance abuse
 Involvement in criminal behavior
 Mental health problems
 House issues and aggression.
 Exposure to stress.
 Uses of corporal punishment.
 Low self esteem.
 Large family size (Devaney and Dolan,
2017).
In order to reduce the causes and factors likelihood of child abuse and neglect are
outlined using the development ecological model. To reduce individual risk factor. Parent needs
to give social and emotional competence, give more attachment to parents. On the other side, to
reduce the family parental factors (Hayden and Jenkins, 2015). For that, protective factors
requires providing strong bonding with parents, self esteem, self efficacy, parental resilience,
concrete support for parents.
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In order to compete with new managerial factors for that, it takes the new several
opportunities and growth. Sociology access to health and social services in order to meet the
child negligence and give them better emotional support.
Assessment of risk protective factor can be adopt by the people in order to reducing the
child maltreatment. This is the universal approach which can be used to promote protective
factor in all families (Holmes and et.al., 2015). This could help to make more awareness for
ensuring the accessible information about parenting and child development.
Efforts to identify the causes of child abuse and neglect is complicated by the inter
relatedness of factors. In order to follow the structural of assessment the risk factor to child abuse
is that first to gathered the information, assess injury and risk of harm, decide the response and
decide the outcomes (Landsverk, 2017). It becomes the long lasting efforts and goals that affect
the overall well being of the students.
2. Detailed the range of interventions that are available to families in maintaining the family unit
Intervention is kind of process of promoting or developed the children disadvantage
prospect incorporate a wide range of measures such as creches, nurseries, play ground etc. the
aim of those interventions are to focus on the children welfare. Early interventions is the very
much different about the new fact of doing things. It also helps to define the new level of
promoting things (Markson, Lösel, Souza and Lanskey, 2015). This would also help to control
the leading sources and goals. This would also help to explain the long term challenge. There are
some specified intervention that helps to give affect positively.
Social Service engagement
State and municipal governments provides a wide range of services and facilities that
helps to connect the better service facilities for the sources. These governmental services is
helpful to control the family violence. This process includes counseling and advocacy for victims
of abuse, family and caregiver support programs (Nelson, 2017). This may consists casework as
well as therapeutic services for parents education and would helpful to take the long lasting
performance goals.
This social interventions also helps family in terms of financial support, and give them
income support as well. Some other services also provided by the institutions such as mental
health service, housing, medical services, socialization, nutrition, education, respite care etc. it
helps to make the proper and supporting process goals (Pecora and et.al., 2017). Through son can
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itself better from present. Some other social interventions are directly administered by state
agencies which funded by government agencies which is more effective and collectively
important for the vulnerable people (Rodrigo Almeida and Reichle, 2015).
Child Maltreatment Interventions
It is the another intervention process that affect the family issues and helps to recover the
existing situation. It makes the process and dealing with long term goals and objectives in order
to influence the best productive protection of children. There are many models and approaches of
interventions such as transitional model that is concern about child maltreatment and
manipulative parenting as intense ends of cultural forces (Schmied and et.al., 2015).
The focus of the social interventions are to protect the general awareness between society
. So that, it will helpful for good well being of the children. This would also help to control the
family violence and crime.
Intervention develop children welfare in many forms in order to allocate. The model
sources and best performing task as per the situation of present case. It helps to get over from the
thoughts that helps to control the long term better resourceful goals (Seymour, 2017).
Domestic violence interventions
It is the another intervention strategy or approach that helps to control the best possible
action plan to control the negative behavior of the children who suffers from the negative trauma.
Shelter programmer has been found in the 1970's in response to grass roots concerns about the
need to provides places of safety and emotional support required by the individual person.
This combination is of the results helps to control the better action or control the
unpredictable source full matter of fact (Smyth and et.al., 2018). Mental health programmers
organized for women and children who suffered from family trauma and wrong behavior.
Elder Abuse Intervention
It is the another type of trauma that helps to promote the good mental health and focus on
the children behavior (Trotter, 2015). Intervention strategy helps to control the new long lasting
effectiveness that affect the better environmental goals. Adult intervention is the another
protective approach that helps to cover the best approachable target opportunities. Adult
committee prevent their own issues and challenges that helps to protect them elder abuse. Adult
issues are the major and challenging performance goals that affect the overall behavior of
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children or adults. They require proper kind of effective zone in terms of betterment (Seymour,
2017).
3. Consider the support framework used when working with vulnerable families and children.
In order to promoting the positive outcomes and results for children. Victorian
government commitments vision is for a Victoria is which every child thrives, learns and grows
is valued and respected, becoming an effective adult (The Best interests framework for children.
2018). This supportive framework or child development growth is very important for the growth.
The better community growth, learning outcomes, well being development helps to protect the
childhood growth for the families. This helps to control the betterment of growth and long lasting
effectiveness (Pecora and et.al., 2017). This framework will support children for developing the
new growth thoroughly. It helps parents to enabled to care effectively for their children and also
build best interest goals for them.
Communities recognize the respect in terms of children betterment. Child well being and
safety act 2005 is the another children support framework or new legislation for children growth.
In terms of that, every children would get equal opportunity to reach their full potential and
participate in society (Markson, Lösel, Souza and Lanskey, 2015).
On the basis of other regulatory part and some other effective framework goal helps to
control the children abusiveness. As per the Victoria children outcomes framework this helps to
provide common basis for setting objectives and planning across the whole of government. This
framework. This provide or enhance the children support and confidence level of the children
which helps to discover the new effective performing goals. Rationale for a targeted approach
need to time to support their children health (Rodrigo Almeida and Reichle, 2015). The main aim
of this function is to take the long term goals and develop the children opportunity target. This
affect the target goals and make the better understanding level between the people. As per the
children, youth and families act 2005 this also helps to make better opportunity for children
development areas. The main strong focus of the children culture identity in terms of children
cultural identity in all service delivery level.
The best frameworks for children will helpful to enhance the individual capacity level.
Informed by research. Parent and carer capability is the another most supportable and effective
tool that creates different types of emotional stability and enhance the new working effectiveness
(Weare, 2015). Bonding between parent and children is very must create basic emotional
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creativity among children. Careful consideration also needs to require best service level and
promoting challenging resourceful task performance. Assist to develop the new circumstances
between children.
Participation of children is also very much necessary to buildup the confidence level
among them. Family economic and social support helps to reduce the vulnerability among
children (Nelson, 2017).
Working with vulnerable children and families, there are different frameworks which are
giving support to these children. Such as this brings the new better objective goals for the new
effective work (Landsverk, 2017).
Victorian children outcomes framework: This theory will give common basis for
setting objectives and planning across entire of authorities. There are many key features for child
in this model such as:
 Providing optimum physical health.
 Adequate to organic process.
 Safe from injury and harm.
CONCLUSION
On the basis of above section, it has been concluded that family support services for
vulnerable families is very much important for the children well-being. Professional apply
several practices and supports in order to generate the new theories for children development.
Present study has been based on the situation where due to single mother illness and mental
trauma their son is not getting proper care due to which they suffering from several issues. Study
explained the importance of assessment when working with families that helps to identify the
risk of harm to children. This explained the different situations or conditions that helps to
generate the new working conditions and better objective performing goals. Report also
discussed the different situations of better performance in order to reduce the children negligence
and mental stress. Study also explained about the different social, individual and emotional
threats through children going. Study also discussed some supportive framework that helps to
adopt the best attractive practices for children.
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