The following recommendations are made, as detailed in Section 7. ‘Resource Implications’:
1. Establish a Family Intervention Team to deliver intensive family support to children and families who are on the ‘edge of care’.
2. To bring ‘in house’ the Family Group Conferencing Service currently provided by Action for Children and to locate the service within the Intensive Family Support Team.
3. To establish a 0.5 WTE Support Worker post currently on a temporary contract within the Early Help and Assessment Team.
4. To establish 1.6 WTE Assistant Social Work posts within the Family Support and Protection Team.
5. Continue with 0.6 WTE Contact Worker currently on a temporary contract plus one additional 0.5 WTE Contact Worker post within the contact team whilst we review the delivery model.
6. To establish a 0.5 WTE permanent Personal Assistant within the Long Term Team for care leavers.
7. To consolidate the management structure and ‘suite’ of family support and therapeutic services within Children’s Services including BASE and increase the availability of play therapy to children Looked After by creating an additional 1 day a week post 0.2 WTE Play Therapist