A partnership which delivers an evidence-based family therapy has supported hundreds of children at risk of being taken into care to remain safely with their families, saving the equivalent of 1,000 years of days in care (cases are tracked for 18 months post intervention). Stronger Families delivers a specialist clinical service, at home, enabling families in Suffolk and Norfolk to stay together. It provides children and adolescents identified by Children’s Services as being at risk of being taken into care, and their families, access to a structured therapeutic programme to address challenging behavioural and emotional issues and to build capacity for sustainable, positive change. The therapy can also enable reunification from care to return home. Stronger Families Partnership is made up of Bridges Outcomes Partnerships, Norfolk County Council, Suffolk County Council, and Family Psychology Mutual, a social enterprise that delivers evidence-based interventions at the edge of care where risks may be of offending, safeguarding or exploitation. • How can we scale up this kind of innovation and create more effective, responsive, and sustainable people-focused public services? Read our January 2026 report. • More case studies of social enterprise innovation
A partnership which delivers an evidence-based family therapy has supported hundreds of children at risk of being taken into care to remain safely with their families, saving the equivalent of 1,000 years of days in care (cases are tracked for 18 months post intervention). Stronger Families delivers a specialist clinical service, at home, enabling families in Suffolk and Norfolk to stay together. It provides children and adolescents identified by Children’s Services as being at risk of being taken into care, and their families, access to a structured therapeutic programme to address challenging behavioural and emotional issues and to build capacity for sustainable, positive change. The therapy can also enable reunification from care to return home. Stronger Families Partnership is made up of Bridges Outcomes Partnerships, Norfolk County Council, Suffolk County Council, and Family Psychology Mutual, a social enterprise that delivers evidence-based interventions at the edge of care where risks may be of offending, safeguarding or exploitation. • How can we scale up this kind of innovation and create more effective, responsive, and sustainable people-focused public services? Read our January 2026 report. • More case studies of social enterprise innovation