Children and Family Services (formerly Children's Social Care) seeks to ensure that children and young people live 'safer, more stable lives in stronger families'.
We aim to make sure that:
- Children make and keep important relationships
- Children are safe
- Children fulfil their potential
- Children's needs are assessed quickly and fairly
- Children and their carers are actively involved in decisions that affect their lives.
We recruit and support foster carers and prospective adopters.
We support children with a disability and their parents/carers through our Children With Additional Needs framework. To find out more contact us on 01724 296500 or drop in at your Local Link.
If you are seriously concerned about the welfare of a child or young person please ring 01724 296500. This will put you in touch with our duty social worker. You can speak to the social worker in confidence.
In an emergency, call the police.
For general concerns about the welfare of a child, professionals and volunteers in North Lincolnshire can use the Common Assessment framework. For information about Common Assessment contact the Common Assessment Coordinator on 01724 298293
Who is it for?
For vulnerable children and young people, and their families.
How do you get help?
A child or young person's needs can be identified through the Common Assessment framework by professionals or volunteers in North Lincolnshire, such as a GP, teacher, youth worker, health visitor, Connexions advisor or Children's Centre worker.
If you are seriously concerned about the welfare of a child or young person please ring 01724 296500. This will put you in touch with our duty social worker. You can speak to the social worker in confidence.
We support children with a disability and their parents/carers through our Children With Additional Needs framework. To find out more contact us on 01724 296500 or drop in at your Local Link.
If you are interested in being a Foster Carer or Adopting a child, contact our Adoption and Fostering Team on 01652 656005.
Further information is avaliable from Local Links and throughout this website please use the links on the right hand side of this webpage to find out more information on specialist services. Or altenatively you can look at our leaflets that provide further information on services.
What can you expect to happen?
You can expect to be listened to carefully and in confidence and taken seriously. Assessments where necessary will be carried out sensitively, quickly and fairly. Children and their carers can expect to be fully involved in the decisions that affect their lives. We will always work in the best interests of children and young people. We put children at the centre of all that we do.
These services help families to look after their children and keep them safe and at home.
However, sometimes we do have to act to protect children. When we do, we work hard with the family to sort out the best way to get them back together if that is possible. We want to see all children do as well as they can. We work with local doctors and nurses to look after their health and local schools to help with their education.
Some of the services we provide include:
- Help and advice to people who want to provide homes for children
- Information to parents about ways to keep children safe and healthy
- Practical help and advice to families in difficulties, including support to young people who are caring for family members
- Help for parents who have children with difficult behaviour
- Help for young people who are struggling to cope or who are at risk of being hurt
- Acting to keep children safe from harm
- Support for parents with children with disabilities.
We also provide:
- Homes for children to live in
- New families for children who cannot live with their parents, and support for these new families
- Support for young people leaving care and setting up home on their own
- Support for young people in trouble with the police.
We coordinate and track children with additional needs (CWAN) and children in need (CIN) to ensure that identified needs for each child are addressed in a plan.
We deliver training to support lead professionals and other colleagues who chair children with additional needs and children in need meetings.
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