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Aftercare
Aftercare is a
department within Children’s Services. It is a service designed to
help support, advice, assist and befriend young people who are in
care or are leaving the care system
Children & Families
Fostering
Making the decision to foster a child is one of the biggest, but
one of the most rewarding decisions anyone can make.
Adoption
Adoption is one
of the most challenging as well as the most rewarding ways of
making a difference to a child's life.
Private
Fostering
Private Fostering is
different from public fostering, where a child is accommodated by
the local authority, and is usually arranged by the parent and
carer.
Looked After Children
Most
children who are looked after stay with foster families, carers who
have been approved and trained by us to look after children in
their own home. For other children staying in a residential
children's home is the preferred option.
Children with Disabilities
While many services work with children with disabilities and their
families this page gives details of the specialist services
provided within Children's services see who do we help below.
Child
Protection
This information explains about Child
Protection work in Worcestershire.
Assessment in Children's Services
Children's Services provide a range of services for Children in
Need and their families. Our publication about the Children and
Families work of the Directorate "A Guide to Services", explains
these services in more detail.
Youth Offending
Service
The Youth Offending Service is a
multi-agency partnership formed as a statutory requirement by the
Crime and Disorder Act 1998.
Direct
Payments
Worcestershire County Council can offer Direct Payments as an
alternative to traditional social care services.
Vulnerable Children
Anti Bullying -
Next Steps
Children's Services' Anti-Bullying policy was launched at County
Hall in October 2006. Since then, a range of activities and
initiatives to support the policy have been put into place.
Education Welfare
Service
The Education Welfare service provides a
range of services relating to school attendance and child
employment, which currently include consultancy, advice, training
and direct intervention through casework.
School
Uniform
Is there an allowance for essential
school uniform?
Children in Entertainment
A Child Performance License must be obtained for all children, from
babies until they cease to be of compulsory school age, from
Children's Services in which they live, to take part in a
performance
Child
Employment
The law requires that every child of compulsory school age who
undertakes part time employment must be registered with Children's
Services.
Travelling Children
The
West Midlands Consortium Education Service for Travelling Children
has peripatetic Advisory/Support Teachers and provides welfare and
administrative services, as well as teaching aids and materials,
for West Midlands schools.
School
Attendance
Research shows that children who attend school regularly are likely
to be more successful. A pupil who misses a day of school a week
misses an equivalent of two whole years in their school life.
Behaviour
The Team operates its behaviour support and its Key Stage 1 /2 and
Key Stage 3 PRUs and Key Stage 4 PRUs in three broad areas of the
county.
Reintegration & Exclusion
Service
To offer advice, guidance and support to all parties (including
parents/carers) with an interest in the exclusion and reintegration
process.
Positive Handling
The Vulnerable Children's Service, through the "Team-Teach"
Positive Handling Strategies approach provides courses that are
specifically designed for a wide range of service settings.
Common Assessment Framework
- The Common Assessment Framework will
ensure that a child or young person with additional needs only has
to tell their story once.
- The lead professional will be one point of contact and
co-ordinate a family support plan.
- An information sharing protocol will ensure that information is
shared appropriately and safely
- See also Integrated Working Programme
Integrated Working Programme
The Integrated Working Programme
(incorporating Common Assessment Framework) focuses on enabling and
encouraging professionals to work together and to adopt common
processes to deliver frontline services, coordinated and built
around the needs of children and young people.
Integrated Services for Looked After Children
Worcestershire County Council and Worcestershire NHS are fully
committed to improving the life chances of our Looked After
Children.
Teenage Pregnancy & Parenting
The Teenage Pregnancy Partnership aims to
reduce the rate of under 18 conceptions in the county and support
young parents to reduce their risk of social exclusion.
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