Children and Young Peoples Services - Information Guide
Preventative Services
Rapid Response Team
The Rapid Response Team provides targeted, timely and intensive
support to children in need from the age of 8 to 17 years and their
families with a view to diverting from or shortening the time spent
in accommodation. The team includes specialist workers from
Education and Health and forms part of the Authorities multi-agency
approach to supporting families.
First Response Services
Referral and Assessment Team
The Referral and Assessment Team is the first point of response
for members of the community, children and families and referring
agencies. The team is responsible for all new referrals relating to
children in need and those in need of protection (except children
with a disability).
Emergency Duty Team
The Team provides an emergency Social Services response for
members of the community and referring agencies outside of normal
office hours.
Child Care Disabilty Team
The Child Care Disability Team offers a range of services which
include protection, support, advice and information to children
with learning, physical and sensory disabilities, and also ADHD and
Autistic Spectrum Disorders. The team is a multi-agency team
comprising social workers, portage workers, a specialist health
visitor, and a community nurse and support staff.
Assessment & Case Management
Family Support Teams
The Family Support Teams are structured on a geographical basis
and all undertake the same tasks but on an area basis. They provide
a service for children and young people, who based upon the
eligibility criteria agreed with partner agencies require
assessment and onward referral from the Referral and Assessment
Team and specifically in cases where the children are;
- Deemed to be children in need and have complex needs and who
are in need of ongoing social work support
- Deemed to be children in need of protection where there isn an
ongoing S47 investigation and/pr it is felt that a Child Protection
Conference should be held
Adoption, Fostering and Leaving Care
Community Placement Team
The team recruits, trains and supports foster carers to look
after children from birth to 18 providing a positive alternative
until they can return home or move to permanent alternative carers.
The team aims to provide a range of placements to meet children’s
needs.
Adoption Team
The Adoption Team recruits, trains and supports those people
wishing to adopt. The team works to match children requiring
families with adopters who are able to meet their assessed needs.
The team also advises adopted adults seeking information.
Route 16 Team (Care Leavers)
The team work with age 16+ looked after children and care
leavers up to the age of 21 and in some circumstances 24. The
social workers and young person’s advisers support young people to
live independently, and engage in education, employment and
training
Placement Review & Child Protection
Referral & Resource and Specialist External Placement
Panels
The Referral and Resource Panel matches the needs of children
with the resources of Children and Young People Services, to ensure
that all possible family support and community based resources are
accessed before children become looked after.
The multi-agency Specialist External Placement Panel considers
whether it is appropriate to palace children and young people with
particularly complex needs in specialist external provision and
makes arrangements for funding such placement as well as reviewing
such arrangements
Conference & Review Service
Conference and Review Service is responsible for convening and
chairing, statutory reviews for children and young people looked
after, and multi-agency Child Protection Conferences. The Children
Looked After and Adopted Partnership is located within the service.
This comprises professionals from Social Services, Health, Child
and Adolescent Mental Health Service, and Education working
together to enhance the life chances of children and young people
looked after by the council
Adoption & Fostering Panels
Adoption Panel has the responsibility for making recommendations
as to whether people are suitable to become adoptive parents,
whether a child’ should be placed for adoption, and matching
children with adopters. It consists of both professionals and
independent members.
Fostering Panel has the responsibility for making
recommendations as to whether people are suitable to become foster
parents and reviews foster carers’ approval status.
Local Safeguarding Children Board
LSCB agency forum, comprising representatives of each of the
main agencies responsible for safeguarding the welfare of children
and protecting them from abuse and neglect. It has responsibility
for agreeing how different services and professionals work together
to safeguard children in the County Borough and making sure they
work together effectively to bring about good outcomes for
children.
Multi-agency Public Protection Arrangements
Multi-agency Public Protection Arrangements, focus on managing
dangerous offenders as safely as possible within the community on a
multi –agency basis.
Hillside
Hillside is a Secure Children’s Home that provides high quality
care, education, health and therapeutic input to children and young
people aged 12 – 17 years who have been placed by Local Authorities
through the Courts.
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