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Family Information Service (FIS) - resources for practitioners

What is the Warwickshire Family Information Service (FIS)?

We are a free and impartial information and signposting service for families with children and young people aged 0-20 years. We provide a wide range of information on issues affecting family life including childcare, child safety, financial help for parents, information and tips on parenting, disability support and working parents employment rights.

How can the FIS help you?

We also provide information, resources and services to help support professionals working with children, young people and families within the county.

We can provide you with a number of FIS resources to support you in your professional role on a wide range of family issues. These can either be downloaded from our webpages or you can order hard copies of these resources by contacting us.

The FIS Outreach Service delivers service information out and about in the local community. Service delivery can vary from giving formal or informal talks on a one-to-one basis or to groups of parents, practitioners or services to providing leaflets and signposting information or providing a presence at school and community events.

Our School and Practitioner Information Packs can provide you with more in-depth detail on how we can support you within your professional role.

FIS - school and practitioner packs

The Family Information Service (FIS) Practitioner Pack is an information and signposting tool for anyone working with children, young people and families within the county of Warwickshire. It provides professionals with information on who we are, what we do and more importantly, how we can support you in your professional role.

Hard copies of this pack are available on request from the FIS, or you can download copies of all the documents included in the pack by clicking on the links below.

1. Introduction to FIS (pdf, 44Kb)

2. Case study examples (pdf, 73Kb)

3. Audits and reports (pdf, 73Kb)

4. Data requests - terms of reference (pdf, 36Kb)

5. Database registration form (msword, 507Kb)

Leaflet and factsheet request form (msword, 1.4Mb)

Leaflets and factsheets

The FIS also produce a number of resources to help you in your work with children, young people and families.

The financial help factsheets are updated in May and November each year to ensure that the information is up to date and takes account of any changes to current government legislation.

To view our full range of publications visit the FIS leaflets and factsheets section on our FIS service page.

If you have any ideas for similar resources that you would find useful within your professional role, please contact the FIS and we will certainly consider your proposals.

Tell us what you think of FIS

Fill in our Schools and Practitioners Feedback Form to let us know what you thing about our services for you and the families you support. Your feedback will help us to provide an even better service in the future.