Denbighshire’s Children and Family Service’s primary purpose is to carry out a range of statutory duties towards children and their families. These duties include promoting the child’s welfare, health and protection; so our direct work involves:

• investigation of allegations of abuse;
• child protection visits;
• support to care leavers;
• recording and monitoring private fostering;
• fostering, adoption and post adoption services;
• providing accommodation for children who have to be looked after;
• taking child care proceedings and providing reports for the Family Court;
• the recruitment and approval of foster carers and adoptive families and their support;
• management of standards of residential, fostering and adoption provision;
• quality and review of placement and child protection plans;
• services to children in need;
• provision of advice and information services (signposting) to potentially vulnerable families i.e. directing them to universal or voluntary agencies that can provide the support they may need;
• promotional work to help children and families access community resources; for example, youth services, welfare benefit services etc.

National and local policy and objectives influence the priorities and shape of all services.

A range of Teams within the Children and Family Service ensure the delivery of these services

The core improvement priorities for Children and Family Services are:

1. Improve placement choice and quality of provision for Children Looked After;
2. Improve the timeliness, quantity and quality of initial and core assessments to Children in Need;
3. Deliver an effective, well used, preventative service which reduces the risk of harm, promotes social inclusion and reduces the number of children who need to be looked after;
4. Continue to improve the quality of care planning and improve the life chances for Children Looked After;
5. Introduce a commissioned approach to the development and delivery of services underpinned by improved contracting arrangements;
6. Maintain staff retention and develop/ skill-up staff within Children’s Services to promote their future development;
7. Improve communication and the way Children’s Services work both with partners and within the department.

Voluntary Organisation Grants

Please see the attachments below for information about applying for voluntary organisation grants.

Business Plan Priorities 2011-12 (pdf, 15.77 KB)   
Family Support - what is available (pdf, 48.48 KB)   
Grant application form (doc, 60.93 KB)   
Grant information (pdf, 62.32 KB)   

To view and print PDF files, you must have Adobe® Acrobat® Reader installed. Click here to download the software.
To view and print Microsoft Word files, you must have Microsoft Word installed. Alternatively, click here to download the free Microsoft Word Viewer software.