ly help 81 and reformed child protection also need to be part of an integrated system, where both support and protection can wrap around the family and escalation routes are clear when decisive protective action is required. In Stable Homes, Built on Love, we committed to publishing a Knowledge and Skills Statement for Family Help Lead Practitioners in the family help system. The Knowledge and Skills Statement will set out a standard of skills and knowledge for the role of lead practitioner. This will ensure they hold the skills needed to successfully meet the often- complex needs of the families they support. We will learn from the training and approaches taken in pathfinder areas to inform this. The Family Help Service will be managed by a core multi-disciplinary team based in and led by the LA. This team will oversee all family help provision, data management and support for other lead practitioners and partners across the service, particularly lead practitioners who are not employed by the LA. The service will be accessible via an integrated physical and/or virtual multi-agency ‘front door’ enabling both self-referral and practitioner referral and including child protection referrals/concerns. It will serve as an initial triage point where multi-agency information is gathered to determine and signpost or refer to the most suitable services for a child and their family. Minimum expectations: Establish a local Family Help Service, integrating existing support for children and families eligible for/in receipt of targeted early help and CIN services. Detail The Family Help Service should: • Be based in and led by the LA (but with buy-in from partner agencies) • Bring together and integrate with existing universal and wider VCS and community services (Family Hubs etc), a