Luton Borough Council

Family safeguarding

Family safeguarding in Luton has changed. We've made a shift to focus on outcomes, and have changed the way we work to create a more motivational approach.

Among those changes are:

focussing on families’ abilities to make change happen
creating co-located multidisciplinary teams to provide joined-up support
changing our culture
simplifying processes to share information

Our five co-located, multidisciplinary family safeguarding teams include specialists who provide direct help for families and their children. Our workers are trained in working with and supporting families to understand why we are involved and supporting them to make the necessary changes.

The teams are made up of specialists from:

children’s social care
Change Grow Live – drug and alcohol recovery services
East London Foundation Trust – mental health services

Together we aim to achieve:

a reduction in repeat call outs for domestic abuse incidents for families using family safeguarding services
reduced requests for care applications to court and the supporting processes
less time spent recording and more time spent with families
significantly reduced use of emergency health services

More information

Find out how Luton Family Safeguarding is keeping families together
Read more about how Luton families will benefit from our innovative child protection service
Read Council's new child protection programme completes a year
Read Family Safeguarding Model Adult Mental Health team