Right Service Right Time You Dont Meet Threshold

Right Service Right Time

You Don’t Meet Threshold

We will try to help

An Integrated Approach

• • • Integrated Front Door Social Care Advisors. Team Support Officers. Social workers from early Help. Advanced Practitioner. Triage all incoming requests for Service.

Decisions • • • Sign Post Early Help/Prevention Children’s Social care/District team MASH First Response

Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub • • • Social workers from early Help Police Education Health Other relevant professionals/Virtual

Outcomes • Early Help and Prevention • First Response • Children’s Social Care/District team

First Response • New referrals which meet threshold for section 47 (CA 1989). • Referrals from MASH where there is likelihood of significant harm. • Undertake a visit to the child if required to establish threshold. • Initiate section 47 strategy/enquiries

OUTCOMES • Initial child protection conference • Child in Need • Early Help In all cases: • Completed single assessment • Transfer at initial conference or child in need meeting

Contact or referral? • Contact is the form on Liquid Logic which records there is a concern and that child/family may need a service. • Referral is the next stage in the process; it is the form in LL which says the threshold for a service under section 17/47 is met and opens the child to the Local Authority.

What we have learnt and need to do. • Feedback to the referrer is often inconsistent. • Give prompt feedback. • Obtaining consent from parents or young people is often inconsistent. • Consent should always be sought. Consistently share our data with those agencies who refer without the tools and who don’t apply the threshold. • Any request for service that does not have the associated tool to support it – with the MARS – will be declined.