Integrated Service for Looked After and Adopted Children

Worcestershire County Council and Worcestershire Health Services are fully committed to improving the life chances of our Looked After and Adopted Children.

The Integrated Service for Looked After and Adopted Children (ISL) is a multi-agency service that is working to improve the educational, social care, health care and community/leisure opportunities of every child and young person who may be in the looked after system, in a pre-adoptive placement or once they are adopted.

We are a joined up, dedicated service with a wide range of multi-disciplinary professionals. We recognise that in order for children in the looked after system and those who have been adopted to succeed we must work holistically and as a team around every child, their carers and the network.

We hope that this information will be useful in explaining who we are, what we do and how you can contact us for support and advice.

We believe that we can enable Looked After and Adopted Children to have the same opportunities as every other child. We look forward to working with our partners in order to achieve our vision.

Who do the ISL Support?

• Looked After Children: we proactively monitor, track and provide holistic support to Worcestershire Looked After Children and support carers
• Worcestershire Foster Carers: we help carers to provide safe and stable placements. There are approximately 180 foster carers employed by the Local Authority to care for Looked After Children in their own home 
• Residential Support Workers: we support staff working in the Local Authority Children’s Homes
• Pre-adoptive children:  we support between 20 and 30 young people and parents and carers, a year as they move through the adoption process
• Adopted children: we provide support to children, parents and carers, once they have been adopted in partnership with the Adoption Support Team
• Schools and Designated Teachers: each of our schools has a Designated Teacher for Looked After Children. Schools will be required to set targets for each child looked after by their Local Authority at Key Stages 2 & 4
• A network of professionals: we work alongside professionals across all statutory and voluntary agencies
• Kinship Carers: we support children looked after by family or friends in agreement with the Local Authority
• Private Fostering: we support children taken care of by other adults in agreement with the Local Authority
• Looked After Children from Other Authorities in Educational settings in Worcestershire: other authorities may request support from ISL. This support is dependent upon the agreement of cost recovery from the home Local Authority

	Learn more about the aims of the ISL  Our Aims
	Learn more about the "Green Fingers" Project by the ISL  The Green Fingers Project
	Get in contact with the ISL Team  Contact Information