Family Solutions from Kent County Council.

Today there were 13 FGC managers from 13 local authorities/organisations. Thanks so much for coming along!

The main topics of conversation:
What is the difference between family group decision-making / family network meetings and FGC? Please see the separate thread on this forum. Some ambiguity ...

Starting a thread for people to post their thoughts, ideas and concerns about FGDM.
What does this mean for your service?
Are you involved in the planning?
How is FGDM being defined?

So very much to think about!

Hi, there is some guidance out there like Warwickshire's website: https://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/lifelong-links/supporting-young-person-lifelong-link/

A couple of other local authorities are developing policy which (I believe) is at an advance stage and hopefully they'll be able to share this with ...

Hi,
If you have any positive quotes from young people about Circles, please could you send them to circles@frg.org.uk

In addition, if you have liked using Circles with young people, we'd love a quote from you or your colleagues about it.

Ideally we'd like to have quotes to share on social media ...

Hi, this is just a qucik update to let you know that the Bill is still at the committee stage in the House of Lords. you can check progress here: https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3909

Family group decision-making (FGDM) is still being dicsussed and some local authorities are pre-emptively making ...

Hi, just wondering if you figured out a way around this? Some services have transferred large files using Microsoft One-Drive.

Hi
I don't think TraceGenie would fall under RIPA as it is a database of public domain documents - birth certs, electrol roll details etc. (so it's not technically surveillance). It would however fall under GDPR when you process that data and record it on the system, but this should be covered by ...

Hi Trudy, this is an excellent point. I know there are a few recording policies in existence. Here's one I found online from Torbay:
https://torbaychildcare.proceduresonlin ... ing-policy
I'm sure it would be helpful to have a few others to look at too.

Thanks Maureen. If anyone else would like to share their experiences of FGCs in education, please do so.

Hello, this is a thread for Lifelong Links films that you've made that are publicly available and ok to share among the FGC and Lifelong Links network.
The standard line is that it's ok to share them and to use them, but it's not ok to edit or alter them in any way.
Please post videos that you've ...

Title - Social Innovation and Interprofessional Collaboration in Child–Family Reunification Services: The Family Group Conference
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-67106-7_9
There’s a chapter here on FGCs and reunification from Norway that looks good. It costs £19.95, but you may ...

This thread is for FGC research papers. If you're posting one, just give the link and a 1 or 2 sentence description.

Title - The outsider within: The agentic practices of Family Group Conference coordinators in the context of families with children at risk
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full ...

Hello, this is a thread for FGC and Lifelong Links films that you've made that are publicly available and ok to share among the FGC and Lifelong Links network.
The standard line is that it's ok to share them and to use them, but it's not ok to edit or alter them in any way.
Please post videos that ...

Hello, following a few requests lately I thought I 'd start up a thread to flag if you have any Lifelong Links leaflets produced in other languages.
For the sake of clarity and assurance, please could include the following:

-Language
-Which organisation translated it
-Year created
-Did the source ...