
Our Work
We work across the UK throughout children’s services, the voluntary and community sector, schools, youth justice, police and health.
We provide an extensive range of skills and accredited training programmes, and we plan, design, implement, improve and evaluate services across priority areas relating to the needs of vulnerable individuals, children and families.
Our overall aim is to enhance capacity and expertise in local areas across priority areas of service delivery for communities, children and vulnerable families.
Over the last eleven years we have been responsible for the following:
- Working with over 240 clients across the statutory and voluntary sector
- Supporting over 81 areas with strategic and operational support around social care, early intervention and prevention
- Evaluating over 52 projects and services and developing business cases
- Training over 15,100 front line practitioners and managers in both skills based and accredited courses
- Creating and delivering:
- an accredited Level 4 Working with Children, Individuals and Families Programme
- an accredited Level 5 Leaders and Managers programme for those Working with Children, Individuals and Families
- a Level 6 Coaching qualification
- various bespoke leadership development programmes
- many skills-based training courses to support those working with children and families
- Providing coaching and mentoring
- Supporting areas with embedding service improvements
- Embedding Think Family reforms in every Local Authority
- Providing national, regional and local network meetings for both management and operational staff
- School improvement and leadership development
- Creating innovative products such as eLearning and the children’s’ school vulnerability audit tool.
Case Studies
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West Sussex County Council - Evaluation of Think Family
The purpose of our 18-month evaluation was to support the decision making processes around whether to continue/expand the Think Family Programme (comprising intensive support to complex families, troubled families and additional support strands).Read More -
Care 2 Share Training
We delivered a 1-day programme on Effective Engagement and Relationships to a group of family assessment centre workers, comprising of social workers, outreach workers and family practitioners.Read More -
Interface commissioned to undertake national evaluation of Teaching Partnerships
We are delighted to have been awarded the contract from the Department for Education to deliver an evaluation of Teaching Partnerships (TPs).Read More -
Gloucestershire County Council: Supporting the development of Family Hubs
Interface was commissioned in July 2021 to provide support from the very beginning of Gloucestershire County Council’s journey to develop Family Hubs