Level 3 – Family and Environment Elements
Family functioning and well-being
- Incidents of domestic abuse between parents/carers
- Acrimonious divorce/separation
- Family has serious physical and mental health difficulties
- Family has poor relationship with extended family or little communication
- Family is socially isolated
- Parent / carer has learning needs
- Physical or mental health needs which impact on parenting capacity.
Housing, work and income
- Poor state of repair, temporary or overcrowded, or unsafe
- Living in interim accommodation
- Experiencing frequent moves
- Intentionally homeless
- Parents/carers experience stress due to unemployment or ‘overworking’; may be impacting on other aspects of family life e.g. marital relationship
- Parents/carers find it difficult to obtain employment due to poor basic skills
- Serious debts/poverty impact on ability to have basic needs met
- Low income plus adverse additional factors e.g. up to borrowing limit of Social Care Fund
- Rent arrears put family at risk of eviction or proceedings initiated
Social and community including education
- Parents/carers socially excluded/isolated
- Lack of a support network
- Low community support for families
- Acrimonious relationships within community
- Poor quality access to universal and targeted services
- Concerns expressed by others
- Child’s negative sense of self/low self-esteem contributes to their involvement with peers and/or adults thought to be treating them badly and/or encouraging their involvement in self-harm and/or criminal behaviour.
- Child regularly goes missing and family do not know where Child is.
- Incidents and or increase of discrimination