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Enablers for involving children & families in reducing parental conflict service planning

Summary of local area practice

Summary

This resource summarises enablers for involving children and families in reducing parental conflict (RPC) service planning alongside examples of practice where local areas have overcome challenges in this area. It also includes ‘first steps’ tips to guide local RPC Leads in making early progress against each of the enablers.

Enablers for involving families in RPC service planning

This resource summarises enablers for involving children and families in RPC service planning alongside examples of practice where local areas have overcome challenges in this area.

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Aims

The Reducing Parental Conflict (RPC) Programme includes a focus on capturing family voice and lived experience in strategy and service design. The rationale for this is that services will work better when they are co-designed with those involved at the heart of them, in this case, the children, young people and parents who may have experienced parental conflict.

Analysis of round 4 of the RPC Planning Tool indicated that local areas are less mature in the Community key element – which includes involving families in service planning – when compared with other key elements, suggesting that local areas have struggled to make progress here.

As a result, Foundations has explored what works well for local leaders in involving families in RPC service planning and how they have overcome challenges. We held four online discussions in January 2024 to gather perspectives from local RPC Leads on their experiences of engaging families in RPC service planning. We then followed up in more detail with local RPC leaders who shared practical examples of overcoming challenges and amplifying enablers. This report summarises what we heard from local areas on how to take this agenda forward.

Who's it for?

Local areas who want to strengthen their reducing parental conflict services by making progress on involving children and families in RPC service planning.

What's in this resource

This includes a summary of key enablers of involving children and families in RPC service planning alongside illustrative examples of local practice:

  • Enabler: Joining up across family support services
    Local case example: Developing parent/carer panel as a mechanism to influence service planning
  • Enabler: Voluntary and community sector organisations
    Local case example: Maximising the potential of community groups
    Local case example: Experts by experience parental group
  • Enabler: Senior leadership buy-in
    Local case example: The importance of securing senior strategic buy-in
  • Enabler: Connecting with community groups
    Local case example: Harnessing parent peer support
  • Enabler: The importance of language
    Local case example: Collecting and incorporating feedback
  • Enabler: Accessibility of place
    Local case example: Engaging with families in the community
  • Enabler: Diversity of representation
    Local case example: Meeting families in the community and joined up working.
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