 the way that NHS organisations deliver health services (Integrated Care Boards), Family Hubs and Start for Life programmes, and three1 pilots to reduce unnecessary family court delays. The key reforms delivered and tested through the FFCP are: • Safeguarding Partners: focused on strengthening Multi Agency Safeguarding Arrangements (MASA), establishment of expert-led Multi Agency Child Protection Teams (MACPT) and an increased role for Education in MASA • Family Help: Combining the strengths of targeted Early Help and Section 17 (Child in Need) work into a single, seamless and multi-disciplinary Family Help service. • Child Protection: Focus on dedicated and skilled multi-agency child protection teams comprising practitioners from a range of disciplines, including social workers with greater child protection expertise and experience. • Family Networks: A system-wide ‘families first’ culture involving a greater role for family networks, involving earlier use the wider family in decision making at an 1 The three pilots—Designated Family Judge (DFJ) Area Trailblazers, Pre-Case Management Hearing (CMH) meetings, and the Suspected Inflicted Head Injury Service (SIHIS)—each address specific causes of delay in family court proceedings by streamlining processes and enabling earlier access to assessments, documentation, and support for courts and local authorities. 6 earlier stage throughout the system through Family Group Decision Making (FGDM) and introduction of the new Family Network Support Packages (FNSPs) to provide practical and financial support to enable family networks to help children stay safe and thrive at home. FFCP was implemented in ten local areas that were split into two Waves. The Wave 1 LAs2- selected by the DfE as examples of areas with strong practice, com