Trusted person approaches

Trusted person approaches

Trusted person approaches are all about helping an individual who faces multiple disadvantage to get the support they need without having to repeat their story over and over.

Cartoon of a person's journey improving due to the trusted person approach
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The approaches aim to help the people who are trusted with an individual’s story to secure the help of the various teams who can get involved – sometimes through a professionals meeting if that’s most needed.

The approaches also aim to link up people who work with individuals facing multiple disadvantage from across our system, helping share stories of successes which can be repeated and failures we can all learn from and avoid repeating; also clarifying where there are common barriers and how the Changing Futures team can help get these removed.

You can find a briefing note here: Trusted person note (updated July 2025) including some answers to questions which can arise.

Case studies

Here are some case studies setting out how trusted person approaches can work. It’s a very flexible and will need to adjust depending on the individual at the centre of it, but these examples can help give the idea…

If you have any queries about trusted person approaches please email us. We will answer your question and can add it the list of frequently asked questions in the note.

Coming soon… Trusted Person champions and Champions networks

Here you can access

 

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