Identification and Response to Children in Need Sample Clauses

Identification and Response to Children in Need. To reconfigure direct work provision for Children in Need into a coherent and cohesive continuum of support that will effectively meet the needs of the prioritised groups of vulnerable children in Herefordshire. This provision will include:  Specialist intervention services on step-down from statutory provision ( child in need or child protection plan) to early help and universal service  Crisis intervention for those on the edge of care  A Family Intervention Project to respond to the therapeutic needs of children and young people and their families The CAF will be reviewed and revised to make it more user friendly to be in line with a single assessment when this is introduced into Herefordshire. The support workers in the direct work service will work with children young people and their families where the children or young people have been assessed at levels 3 and 4 on the Herefordshire level of need pathway or those that have recently stepped down from level 4 to level 3 and whose needs are supported through a CAF. The services will include those for children in the Looked After System, those on the Edge of Care, on Child Protection Plans and Child in Need Plans the level and intensity of support will be commensurate with the level of need of the family and will be individually tailored. The overall target will be to reduce the number of children and young people moving into care, to reduce the number on child protection and child in need plans. In future when the numbers of children and young people in care and on plans has reduced then there will be potential to redirect a proportion of the direct work services to level 3 cases and deliver early intervention support work.