Building Resilience in Families (BRIF) Panel is a multi-agency team working effectively to offer very early intervention to children and their families, to prevent and reduce the escalation of incidents or issues.
The BRIF Panel consists of a core group including Housing, 0-19 Service, Police, Adult Mental Health, Children Centres and other key partners/agencies relevant to families or to the issues prevalent in the locality.
The only ‘criteria’ for families brought to the BRIF panel is that they are not open to Early Help or statutory Children Services. Professionals may see an emerging need within a family and feel that they would benefit from other services or feel that the input of ideas and suggestions from the panel. There are no set referral criteria as this takes away the purpose of the panel.