SERVICE DETAILS
Children 1st brought the Family Group Meeting (sometimes known as a Family Group Conference) to Scotland in 1998. Children 1st is the largest third-sector provider of FGDM services in Scotland.
What is a Family Group Meeting?
Every family, at some time, needs to make big decisions about their children.
A Family Group Meeting is a way for families to come together to discuss a concern or problem which involves children or young people in the family. Family could include grandparents, aunties and uncles, and even close family friends.
The aim of the meeting is to make a plan to support that child or young person. The family choose whether, or not, they want to have a meeting.
Children 1st staff organise Family Group Meetings in all sorts of circumstances. This can range from help for a family early on when they are beginning to have difficulties, right up to when families are involved with social work and child protection services and are making big decisions about how to keep a child safe or where a child should live.
How to ask for a Family Group Meeting
For more information about Family Group Decision Making services, please contact Children 1st using the form at https://www.children1st.org.uk/help-for-families/ways-we-work/family-group-decision-making.
