Children Families and Education Services

Children and families social work

• Multi agency safeguarding hub (MASH):
  • contacts and referrals
• Child protection and assessment:
  • family safeguarding: north, east, south, west and central
  • specialist assessment team
  • care proceedings administration
• Corporate parenting:
  • children in care - 0 to 13 years
  • 14+ team - 14 to 25 years
  • fostering placement service
  • adoption team
  • Manor Contact Cntre
  • child participation officer

Quality assurance, safeguarding and performance improvement

• Children’s strategic safeguarding
• Child protection chairs and independent reviewing officers
• Local authority designated officers
• Principle social worker – children and families
  • newly qualified social work staff coordinator
• Local safeguarding children’s board
• Business support
• Sexual exploitation
• No recourse to public funds
• Policy and procedures
• Audit and the child’s voice

Prevention and early intervention

• Luton flying start – pregnancy to five strategy
• Flying start children’s centres
• Early help team including stronger families programme
• Family information service
• Channel
• Youth advice
• Targeted youth work
• Special educational needs and assessment team including local offer
• Special educational needs support
• Educational psychology
• Special educational needs and disability, information, advice and support (SENDIAS)
• Youth offending service
• London road resource centre including shared care
• Transition team
• Children’s occupational therapy
• Children with disabilities team

Education, support, challenge and intervention service

• School improvement services – early years, primary and secondary
• Monitoring and moderation of statutory key stage assessments
• Early years
• Health education in schools
• School admissions and appeals
• School place planning and school organisation issues
• Non SEN school transport
• Access to education, including support for Gypsy, Roma and traveller children
• Safeguarding in education
• Childcare advice and support - safeguarding and well-being for the private voluntary and early years sector
• The virtual school for LAC
• Standing advisory council on religious education (SACRE)
• Alternative learning and progression service - including medical tuition
• Children missing education
• Elective home education
• 14 to 19, post-16 providers
• School catering
• Music service
• Governor services
• Traded services for schools