Assessing parents' capacity to change: Frontline Briefing (2013)

This briefing is for frontline practitioners working across wider Children’s Services with families for whom there may be safeguarding concerns.

Reflective questions and practice implications

• How can you use the four stage assessment process outlined in this Frontline Briefing, together with the standardised measures described in the Frontline Tool, to reach a clear and shared understanding of the challenges a family faces and the capacity of the parents to address those challenges?
• How can you support parents’ capacity to change and help them to achieve clearly identified and meaningful goals?