Safeguarding and Family Support An overview of services and key practice data
Overview of Services • Early Help and Family Support for children and young people aged 5 to 17 • Front Door Service • Children in Need Social Work Teams • Looked After Children Social Work Teams • Independent Futures; leaving care service • Fostering , Friends and Family and Adoption Services • Emergency Duty Team • Safeguarding and Quality Assurance teams
Key Practice data ( as at 31.8.17) 1748 children within Social Care and allocated to a social worker 346 Children Looked After • includes 50 unaccompanied Asylum seeking children • 259 aged between 10 and 17 • Aged 13 and over; 139 boys and 76 girls 214 children on Child Protection Plans • 27% aged 10 or over 1188 Child in Need Plans • 47% aged 10 or over Care leavers ( aged 18 to 25] ; 329
Key practice data 16/17 • Contacts; 13992 [ increase of 500 from 15/16] • Referrals; 3013 [ increase of 514] • Child protection investigations; 829 [ increase of 300] Context ; Increasing demand and increasing complexity Continuing upward trend. Reflects the London and national picture
Youth and Community Services Established in 2016 to support the early intervention and prevention of Youth crime alongside Safeguarding and Family support Services
Overview of Services • Youth Offending services- we work with between 80 to 100 young offenders each year, predominately male aged 14- 17 • Targeted Youth team- offers detached work out to community areas to work with young people on the cusp of offending , and exhibiting anti social behaviour , educationally excluded or in alternative school provision and through range of individual and group work reduce risk factors found impacting on young people • Integrated Gangs team- multi agency team with Police who work to reduce Gang activity with young people and offer alternative support
Overview of Services • Play and Youth services • The department commissions a range of play activity in borough with 12 adventure playgrounds, family activity sessions and mobile pop up play • Youth Provision – Oversees 3 Youth Hubs and a number of other youth clubs and provision to counsel, support and promote further education and employment
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