Aims of the guidance
This guidance summarises the different levels of need that a child may experience and shows how typical interventions from a range of services can meet these needs.
The aim is to:
- support practitioners to identify levels of need through the consistent application of assessment processes, and shared understanding of resilience and risk
- enable practitioners to see how different factors overlap and interact requiring the delivery of services to be tailored to each individual’s patterns of needs
- promote consistent, coordinated and comprehensive responses to requests for support for children/young people aged 0 to 19 or 25 fordisabled children and young people 0-25
- link practitioners and managers to collaborative processes and procedures for assessment, consultation, multi-agency meetings, referral, recording, information sharing including the use of contactpoint, across the children’s workforce
- promote public trust, through transparency and accountability in the delivery of services
- promote a shared language across the children’s workforce to support a better understanding of preventive, protective and supportive interventionspromote the initiation and monitoring of "equality impact assessment" to ensure services meet the needs of all the diverse groups across the city
The guidance is one tool within a wider context of support which should include:
- training
- supervision
- line management
- single and multi-agency agencies policies and procedures
- consultation with multi-agency colleagues
- other sources of continuing professional development.
A diagram or model The windscreen, a glossary of terms and descriptors or indicators for each of the levels of need are included. Links are integrated throughout the guidance to the family hub to provide descriptions of service responses.