Member

Keeping more children safely at home with their families and ensuring that families get the right support at the earliest opportunity are vital. That is why an important part of the family help being rolled out will be to provide support through multidisciplinary teams for all families, including birth parents, adopters and families where children are returning home from care. Pathfinder local authorities are reporting a positive early impact of those reforms. I note that the noble Baroness specifically mentioned therapeutic services. I want to reassure noble Lords that our investments already support the delivery of these services, including taking forward examples from pathfinder local authorities, where senior therapists have been embedded into family help multidisciplinary teams to provide direct therapeutic support to families.