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Meet the Team

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Specialism;
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Family Support

Accredited Parenting Practitioner

Quality Supervised Parent and Child Contact

Therapeutic Life Story Work

PACE 

Restorative Practice Approach

Attachment Lead in Schools

Sonia Worthington
Manager

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Sonia's background has been working in the Devon area as a family practitioner for the past 27 years, working with families experiencing high complex issues and edge of care support.  
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Sonia's career started as a family support worker in the Surestart team, Paignton. Sonia progressed her career quickly in the Surestart team to run the children centre nursery. Sonia went on to manage a further 2 children centre nurseries and then progressed her career in the Local Authority where she stayed for 17 years. Sonia has experience of working in many safeguarding services as well the NHS and Education.  
 
Sonia's mission was to set up Parenting Solutions Devon to provide a high quality intervention service, to support families and their children going through difficult times. For families to access the right support at the right time was so key to this service set up.   Sonia has successfully developed a service which prides itself on having a no waiting list for families in need.   
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Parenting Solutions Devon is a private run service that has been established to help and advise the families of Devon, giving them every opportunity and learning available to improve their family life and their outcomes.  Parenting Solutions Devon is set up with a specialised team of experienced family support workers  delivering bespoke intervention support to cover a variety of family needs and  issues. 

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Specialism
Family Support

Accredited Solihull Approach Practitioner

Quality Supervised Contact

Contact  Observation Reports

Attachment Lead in Schools

Safeguarding 

Christine Franklin
Family Support Adviser.

Christine has worked as a Family Support Adviser for 13 years in the Devon Area. She has developed an extensive knowledge of supportive intervention approaches,  for working with families experiencing difficulties in their lives.
 
Christine has experience of working in a variety of safeguarding services and has gained a fantastic rapport with a variety of professional services and agencies to support the families she has worked with.
 
Christine's ethos is to ensure the voice of the child is heard, parenting decisions are listened to and safeguarding of children and adults are adhered to. Christine believes the family unit is the most important aspect in every child's life. 
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