Table 3.1: Categories of Family Support
Merging Gilligan’s categories (2000) and Hardiker’s (1991) levels into a new and developed
conceptual framework illustrates the potential to meet children and families’ needs across the
range of levels, with an array of services provided across the three categories, by a range of
disciplines working on behalf of children and families (Family Support Strategy, 2011). Again,
this framework of services delivery, illustrated in Table 2.2, needs to be fluid, enabling children and their families to avail of services across the levels and at varying stages and intensities (the Agenda for Children’s Services, 2007; Devaney, 2011).