Level 4 – Family and Environment Elements

Family functioning and well-being

Significant parental/carer discord and persistent domestic violence
Family characterised by conflict and serious chronic relationship difficulties
History of rejection
Poor relationships between siblings and wider family
No effective support from extended family
Destructive/unhelpful involvement from extended family
Child/young person has been identified as a child/young person in need, but parents/carers have refused support
Family involved in criminal activity; parent or sibling has received custodial sentence
Individual posing a risk to children in, or known to household
Unsafe home environment
Family home used for drug taking, prostitution, illegal activities
Family have physical or mental health needs that impact on parenting capacity
Parent /care has learning needs that impact on parenting capacity

Homeless – or imminent
Housing dangerous or seriously threatening to health
Physical accommodation places child in danger
Chronic unemployment that has severely affected parents’ own identities
Family unable to gain employment due to significant lack of basic skills or long-term substance misuse
Extreme poverty/debt impacting on ability to care for child
No expectation that young person will work

Family chronically socially excluded
No supportive network
Community are hostile to family
Child frequently goes missing and fails to account for their locations or discloses situations indicating risk of CE
Child trafficked to UK for sexual exploitation
Currently being discriminated and or on going and increasing incidents of discrimination