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Supporting Families First and Best Start Hubs: Delivering better outcomes through integrated safeguarding and welfare solutions As Local Authorities and partner agencies prepare for and implement the Families First programme ahead of the March 2027 deadline, the need for joined-up, data-driven approaches to safeguarding and early intervention has never been greater.

Join us for an insightful webinar exploring how LIFT (Low Income Family Tracker) and MAST (Multi Agency Safeguarding Tracker) help organisations identify vulnerable families earlier, strengthen multi-agency collaboration, and deliver coordinated support that improves outcomes for children and families.

During this session, we will discuss the key principles of the Families First programme and Best Start Hubs, and demonstrate how our solutions enable practitioners to:

• Identify families requiring early intervention through integrated welfare and safeguarding intelligence.
• Streamline Best Start referrals using data and referral workflows.
• Improve multi agency collaboration by providing a single view of safeguarding concerns, interventions, and outcomes.
• Track family engagement and measure the effectiveness of support across services.
• Reduce duplication, improve information sharing, and ensure timely, informed decision making.
• Support statutory safeguarding responsibilities while addressing the wider welfare needs that impact family wellbeing.

Whether you're working in Children's Services, Early Help, Public Health, Housing, Education, or voluntary and community sector partners, this webinar will demonstrate how LIFT and MAST provide the digital infrastructure needed to support whole family working, strengthen partnership collaboration, and deliver the ambitions of the Families First programme.

Who should attend?

• Children's Services leaders and practitioners.
• Early Help teams.
• Safeguarding professionals.
• Best Start Family Hubs leads.
• Local Authority transformation and digital teams.
• NHS, education, welfare, housing, police, and voluntary sector partners.

9/9/2026

10:30am BST

1 hour

Blog

2018: A policy review of the year

Janet Harkin Published on 14th December 2018

In our policy review of the year speakers, Deven Ghelani and Paul Howarth, looked back on a busy 2018. We reviewed the policy changes that have happened in 2018, shared some key findings from policy analysis we commissioned to do by clients, and looked forward to what this may mean for 2019.View the slide deck to see:

Policy changes during 2018

Universal Credit

Homelessness Reduction Act

Our research

Motor Neurone Disease Association
Supported Housing: Riverside, St. Mungos, Salvation Army, YMCA
Local Government Association: The employment impact
Autumn Budget: the impact of Universal Credit on your residents
Other policy work (Benefit Cap, Self-employment, financial resilience)

The impact of our work

Select Committee Evidence Sessions
Universal Credit Managed Migration
Focusing on prevention and engaging residents
House of Lords and Northern Voices events

What we will be focusing on next year…View slides hereRead some of the analysis featured

Riverside, YMCA, St Mungos, Salvation Army: Universal Credit and Supported Housing here
LGA: The impact of Universal Credit on employment outcomes here
MNDA: The implications of UC for people living with Motor Neurone Disease here
Autumn Budget 2018 analysis here
SSAC: Evidence on managed migration here
W&PSC: Evidence on on the impact of the lower benefit cap here