We work across the UK with local authorities, schools and academies, housing organisations, the VCS and health colleagues to plan, design, implement, improve and evaluate services across priority areas relating to the needs of vulnerable individuals, children and families.
We focus on Early Help, Troubled Families, Children’s Social Care, Education, and Early Years. We have a proven record of delivering positive outcomes in these areas.
Our overall aim is to enhance capacity and expertise in local areas across priority areas of service delivery for communities, children and vulnerable families.
As well as our national initiatives we have recently worked with local authorities and their partners on projects including:
For more information about particular pieces of work see our case studies.
Interface received a grant from DfE to support LA’s in developing their services for families with multiple problems.
Read moreThis four day course facilitated the learning of 50 professionals from family support back grounds who were introducing a new early help support package within the borough.
Read moreDarlington required a number of voluntary and statutory partners within the borough to become more aware of the concept of whole family working in line with the Care Act 2014.
Read moreRaising awareness about Mental Health and the impact of mental health issues on families is a key objective of Cheshire West and Chester local authority.
Read moreWe worked with the senior management team of a LA in the East to develop a bespoke programme for frontline managers, senior practitioners and their team members to target areas of weak practice and improve performance
Read moreWe are delighted to be working with Northern Ireland HSCB Early Intervention Social Worker teams - providing the Capacity to Change Programme developed by the The University of Bristol.
Read moreWe are delighted to be working with the Early Help team in Central Bedfordshire to support them and increase their understanding around parental Capacity to Change.
Read moreStockton Council have developed ‘A Fairer Start’ ethos and philosophy that aims to ensure that every child has the best start.
Read moreHalton Borough Council is in the process of developing and implementing an integrated multi-agency approach to supporting children, young people, families and vulnerable adults across the continuum from Early Intervention to statutory safeguarding services.
Read moreWarrington Borough Council has implemented an integrated multi-agency approach to supporting children, young people, families and vulnerable adults across the continuum from Early Intervention to statutory safeguarding services.
Read moreWe are working with Catalyst, a voluntary sector partner to develop and deliver part of a culture change training programme.
Read moreDarlington City Council are focussed on developing a whole council approach to the new responsibilities created by the Children and Families Act and the Care Act to consider the needs of the whole family, delivery of coordinated packages of support and the protection of children and young people from excessive or inappropriate caring roles.
Read moreCheshire West and Chester had internally provided introductory Team around the Family training sessions to ensure that processes and responsibilities were clear.
Read moreWest London Zone is inspired by the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), a ‘cradle-to-college’ pipeline of support for children. The HCZ approach is to do ‘whatever it takes’ to help young people escape generational disadvantage – with the ambition to achieve a ‘tipping point’ whereby the whole community has a positive experience of learning, work and family life.
Read moreWe were commissioned to provide training for WSCC Staff dealing with customers on a regular basis who have complex issues around drug addiction/alcoholism and mental health.
Read moreWe were commissioned to provide an independent evaluation of the Adults with Complex Needs Service.
Read moreHalton Borough Council is in the process of further developing and implementing an integrated multi-agency approach to supporting children, young people, families and vulnerable adults across the continuum from Early Intervention to statutory safeguarding services.
Read moreWe were successful in providing a large contract of Motivational Interviewing for family safeguarding teams across Hertfordshire.
Read moreBrent Council and their VCS partners (BANG and Barnados) attended training on motivational interviewing.
Read moreBerneslai Homes runs a large Family Intervention Service. We supported the team through the use of Motivational Interviewing.
Read moreCheshire West and Chester have a strong internal whole family working vision and agenda and were looking for a training organisation to support with further implementation and training for its wider partners.
Read moreInterface worked with Haringey Early Help Executive group members to develop a 3 module training programme for front line staff and those involved in the wider early help offer. The package of support was to integrate the new Early help workflow in to practice and embrace the culture change that this would bring. This bespoke course was delivered over 40 training days.
Read moreBarnsley were looking for a training provider to support their recent restructure to whole family working and implementation of its Family Support offer in both the Early Help and Troubled Families agenda.
Read moreLB of Tower Hamlets wanted to embed an accredited program into their whole family working framework. This training was to coincide with changes in the authority and a will of LBTH to invest in their staff.
Read moreWe provided embedded consultancy support and created a technical solution to track family outcomes to support their Phase 2 troubled families work.
Read moreGreat Yarmouth Borough Council (GYBC) and partners were successful in acquiring funding from DCLG as part of the Delivering Differently in Communities programme.
Read moreBracknell Forest Council has a strategic priority to build volunteering and improve community resilience. They are keen to build and support communities that can help themselves through the increased use of volunteers.
Read moreTower hamlets commissioned Interface to run this brand new accredited course following our delivery of 4 previous city and guilds accredited courses.
Read moreWe worked with Catch 22 staff, who supported young offenders in the community, to deliver a 1-day session on Child Protection and Safeguarding and a half-day workshop on Data Protection.
Read moreCamden Council were looking for a training provider that could help embed their ‘Resilient Families’ Early Help agenda to a large number of multi-agency staff. We delivered a series of one-day introductory sessions to multi-agency professionals to raise awareness following the restructure of the Early Help offer for families in the borough.
Read moreInterface provided a one-day training session aimed at Children Social Care Social Workers to increase the quality of written assessments for newly appointed and existing staff.
Read moreCatch 22 identified that they wanted to provide evidenced-based training for their front-line staff to increase their engagement levels with young people and facilitate positive change through each face-to-face interaction.
Read moreInterface were delighted to be working with Cheshire West and Chester to raise awareness about Mental Health issues and the impact on families.
Read morePACT were looking to update their staff support and supervision practice across the whole organisation with a particular emphasis on Reflective Practice.
Read moreInterface provides a 2 day bespoke practical programme for managers responsible for providing supervision...
Read moreInterface provides an in-depth programme for school staff working directly with cases who are subject to or at risk of being subject to a child protection plan...
Read moreHaringey Children’s Services were seeking to embed their new Early Help Framework approach to provide early help and support to families and children. This is the approach Interface adopted to meet our client's needs...
Read moreBirmingham City Council requested support from Interface to increase the capacity of the team leading the Troubled Families programme...
Read moreInterface helps Goldington to achieve 'good' rating following support from Interface ...
Read moreSefton needed to increase the proportion of children in Sefton who are “school ready” enabling parents to give them the best possible start in life. See how Interface supported them...
Read moreInterface were commissioned to review a framework to ensure it encapsulated the requirements of the 'Payment by Results" scheme and fully reflected the range of other intended outcomes.
Read moreSefton were commissioning a large piece of work to meet their troubled families response. See how Interface worked closely with Sefton...
Read moreLondon Borough of Brent identified that they wanted to offer multi agency staff training to meet the demands around working in a whole family way. This is how Interface supported Brent...
Read moreNewham were looking for evidence based training for their newly formed team. The team were going to be working with families with high complex needs following the troubled families’ agenda. This is how Interface supported Newham...
Read moreFollowing a review of their service delivery by Interface a long term training programme was implemented...
Read moreCambridgeshire were looking for a training provider that could implement its ‘Think Family’ agenda to a large number of multi-agency staff over a 5 module structure...
Read moreFollowing a successful 2 day supervision training a further need was identified for individual team training to embed good practice following the team induction process...
Read moreInterface supported Sefton to consider the effectiveness of current Early Years and childcare provision at a strategic and operational level...
Read moreInterface worked with Kineara Housing to help them demonstrate savings they have made from a housing perspective as well wider savings to the public purse.
Read moreInterface worked with West Sussex to review three pilot projects providing emotional well-being services for young people aged 12-25 years.
Read moreInterface designs a bespoke Cost Calculator to meet the needs of Islington Council’s Early Help service.
Read moreInterface creates a new framework for Adoption UK so that services could be articulated clearly to stakeholders codifying existing services and identifying a delivery model that will support a new range of services within a wider profile of funding streams.
Read moreGreat Yarmouth Borough Council (GYBC) and partners were successful in acquiring funding from DCLG as part of the Delivering Differently in Communities programme.
Read moreBracknell Forest Council has a strategic priority to build volunteering and improve community resilience. They are keen to build and support communities that can help themselves through the increased use of volunteers.
Read more“We approached Interface to discuss the delivery of their Supervision training in-house for our organisation. Their proposed solution allowed for us to tailor the training to exactly meet our needs. The trainers delivery was engaging and inclusive. She used lots of relevant and practical examples imparting her extensive knowledge. Delegates left the training with specific individual plans which should have a positive impact on their practice of supervision.
Wendy Such (Parenting Coordinator, Bracknell Forest)“Interface's training on the C-Change framework has been hailed as one of the most successful training courses the local authority has ever received!
Early Help Practice Manager, Central Bedfordshire Council“Many thanks for the report, the work that went into it and the slides. I hope you are all having a well-deserved rest! Please know that the work will result in positive change and that you will have been instrumental in putting us on the right path.
Kate Wesson, Project Manager Children and Families Commissioning Team (West Sussex)“Thank you! The trainer was extremely knowledgeable, the course was really useful to me and I learnt a great deal that will be of use.
Ashmead Primary School Teacher“Interface were very flexible in meeting our organisation’s needs. The trainer’s style was particularly effective in holding, supporting and gently challenging staff during a period of significant change and subsequent uncertainty. Her training style is clear, warm, appropriately challenging and encourages reflection. She has fed back regularly to managers on any wider issues that have been raised during the training and that we should be considering which is particularly helpful. Feedback from participants has been consistently positive about the quality of the delivery of the training.
Kirsten Carr, Early Help Transformation and Impact Manager (London Borough of Haringey)