Family Strategic Partnership

What the Family Strategic Partnership (FSP) is:

The Family Strategic Partnership is a consortium of four charities led by UK children’s charity Barnardo’s working with:

Action for Prisoners’ Families, the national organisation for those interested in the well-being of prisoners’ and offenders’ families
Children England, the charity membership body
The Family Parenting Institute which works with business, charities, government and public services to build a family friendly society
The FSP works in partnership with the Department for Education (DfE).
The FSP operates across the whole of the England.
The FSP programme started in April 2011 and runs until March 2013.

Aim of the FSP:

To help maximise the positive impact of the voluntary sector on the lives of vulnerable families by:

providing training and advice to those working in the voluntary sector to enhance their practice;
increasing understanding and knowledge of policy and good practice across government and the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector;
representing the views of what families need directly to Government, and
developing networks to share expertise.

How the FSP does this:

Acting as a voice for vulnerable families and professionals working in the sector
Feeding back to government from the front-line to inform and influence their decision-making around vulnerable children and their families
Raising awareness within government around family policy by providing timely and practical information on policy, research and practice
Sharing best practice and research within the sector looking at new ways of working with vulnerable families as well as each other.

Contact Peter Grigg on 020 7424 3487 or email peter.grigg@familyandparenting.org for further information.

Find out more about the FSP's work by downloading the prospectus [PDF] and visiting the FSP website.