Top tips for professionals

The FJYPB has devised top tips for respecting diversity and effectively including children and young people within family justice. The top tips were shared at this year’s Voice of the Child 2017 conference.

Aleesha has cerebral palsy and has such a positive outlook on her abilities. She wanted to ensure that professionals understood the delicate and complex needs that children and young people with physical disabilities may have.

Aleesha's top tips

Matthew has based his tips on his own experiences of working with professionals throughout his court proceedings and education. Matthew shared his top tips at last year’s Voice of the Child Conference 2017 and they were really well received.

Matthew's top tips

Sasha has worked closely with the rest of the Board to develop key top tips for Cafcass practitioners working with children and young people to encourage best practice.

Sasha's top tips

The FJYPB has devised these top tips for social workers who work and engage with children and young people in the family courts, based on their own experiences.

Top tips for social workers working with children and young people

Keeping children and young people engaged and informed is a way of ensuring their voice is heard. The FJYPB and Cafcass have produced best practice tips for ensuring children and young people are kept informed and at the centre of their case.

Top tips for Cafcass practitioners for keeping children and young people informed and keeping them at the centre of their case

The FJYPB and Allsorts Youth Project have worked together to create these top tips for professionals who work with transgender children and young people.

Top tips for working with transgender children and young people

The FJYPB and Allsorts Youth Project have worked together to create these top tips for professionals who work with lesbian, gay or bisexual children and young people.

Top tips for working with LGB children and young people

The FJYPB have devised these top tips for parents to help them think about matters from their child’s perspective.

Top tips for separating parents

The FJYPB has devised some top tips for professionals working with children and young who have experience of and been affected domestic abuse.

Top Tips for working with children and young people affected by domestic abuse

A sibling or ‘brother and/or sister’ relationship is likely to last longer than any other relationship in our lives. When this relationship is disrupted, or not maintained, the impact on brother and/or sister groups can be considerable. The FJYPB have developed some top tips for professionals when working with brothers and/or sister groups.

Top tips for professionals when working with brothers and sisters

FJYPB members have developed a set of TOP TIPS for teachers based on what they found useful or wished that their teachers had done for them during and after their proceedings.

The FJYPB have developed some top tips to help parents and children spend quality time together online.

The FJYPB have developed some top tips for supporting children and young people’s mental health.