Level 2 – Family and Environment Elements
Family functioning and well-being
- Parents/carers have some conflicts or difficulties that can involve the child/young person
- A child or young person has experienced loss of significant adult, e.g. through bereavement or separation
- Parent/carer has physical/mental health difficulties
- A child/young person is taking on a caring role in relation to their parent/carer, or is looking after younger siblings
- Privately fostered
- Adopted
- Limited friends and family support
- Child looked after by many different adults
- Parent / carer has learning needs
- Physical or mental health needs
Housing, work and income
- Poor housing
- Some problems over basic facilities
- Family seeking asylum or refugees
- Periods of unemployment of parent/carer
- Parents/carers have limited formal education
- Low income
- Financial/debt problems
Social and community including education
- Family new to the area or with limited contact with community members
- Some social exclusion or conflict experiences; low tolerance
- Community characterised by negativity towards children/young people
- Difficulty accessing community facilities
- Child has a negative sense of self and abilities and suffers with low self-esteem making them vulnerable to peers and adults who pay them attention and/or show them affection but do so in order to exploit them (CE).
- Some concerns of possible discrimination