m with a loving, safe and stable home. • Practitioners bring the family network together to explore safe and loving family- led options for the child’s care before the local authority issues care proceedings, wherever it is safe and possible to do so. Practitioners bring families together in family-led forums, that have been thoughtfully and carefully prepared. These forums should allow families time and resource to respond to concerns about a child’s safety or wellbeing. Practitioners may use approaches, such as family group decision making in delivering these forums. • Practitioners conduct assessments of prospective kinship carers so that they can provide a safe and stable home for their kin, and they help them to access the support they need to provide short term or long-term care. • Practitioners are mindful of circumstances where a child or young person is not able to be supported by their immediate family network, for example where it is unsafe to maintain relationships, or a child or young person’s family and network are in another country, such as for unaccompanied asylum-seeking. Practitioners think creatively, and act decisively, to support children and young people to develop a strong, caring network of relationships in their lives. 41 Outcome 3: children and young people are safe in and outside of their homes What this outcome is about Children’s social care acts swiftly to protect children and young people from harm, whether that is at home, where they live, or outside in their wider neighbourhood, community and online. Children’s social care manages the uncertainty and nuances of the complex circumstances in which harm takes place, working in partnership with other agencies to increase safety. Summary of this outcome There are some children and young peop