2.2.5 Rapid Response Team and other Emergency Resources |
Contents
- Purpose of the Service
- Overall Service Model
- Staffing of the Service
- Governance of the Service
- Service Processes
- Performance Management of the Service
1. Purpose of the Service
To develop and provide, on a multi-disciplinary basis, a range of community based services to support families with young people aged 13 - 15 whose behaviour or relationship difficulties are resulting in the risk of family breakdown. The overall aim is the improvement in family functioning to the point where the need for the young person to become looked after is avoided. This will be achieved through improved outcomes in the following areas:
- parenting ability
- the young person's behaviour (at home and in the community)
- relationships within the family
- the young person's peer relationships
- school attendance and educational attainment.
2. Overall Service Model
The Service model is a multi-disciplinary team based in the Social Care Division of CYPS.
3. Staffing of the Service
This section to be updated later.
4. Governance of the Service
The MDFSS Steering Group will lead, direct and manage the development, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and review of the Service. The steering group is accountable to the CAMHS JCG.
The team manager is accountable to the Steering Group for the development implementation, monitoring, evaluation and review of the Service, and accountable to their employing agency for personnel and performance issues.
Individual team members are accountable to the team manager for their role as members of the MDFSS, and accountable to their employing agency for personnel and performance issues.
Normal arrangements for professional or clinical supervision and accountability of practice will apply to the team manager and individual team members as appropriate to their profession and their work within the team.
5. Service Processes
Eligibility Criteria
Criteria for referral to the Service are:
- young people between the ages of 13 and 15 years inclusive
- ordinary residents of the London Borough of Lambeth
- living at home with their family
- where a team within the Social Care Division of the CYPS has judged, either as part of the referral response, or following an initial or core assessment, that the family is very close to, or at the point of breakdown requiring that the young person becomes looked after
- and where the presenting difficulties are those with which the Service is designed to assist.
The Service is designed to assist with the following presenting difficulties, where they are judged to be directly contributing to the risk of family breakdown and the likelihood of the young person becoming looked after:
- conduct issues and challenging behaviour by the young person
- offending
- school non-attendance
- parenting difficulties, including those related to mental health problems, depression, substance misuse, domestic violence
- dysfunctional family dynamics, including inappropriate adult / child relationships.
Referral Routes
Referrals can only be made to the Service by a team within the Social Care Division of the CYPS, either for involvement in, or following an initial or core assessment.
Care Pathways
The Service is designed to provide the following types of interventions:
- direct work with young people, individually and in groups, using a range of specialised therapies and practical activities, in a range of settings (including home-based) as appropriate
- direct work with parents, individually, as couples and in groups using a range specialised therapies and practical activities in a range of settings (including home-based) as appropriate
- direct work with families, individually and in groups, in a range of settings (including home-based) as appropriate
- co-work with colleagues in other agencies
- work with professional systems.
By their very nature, referrals to the Service will be of families where one or more agency will already be involved, in particular the school.
The referral may request the Service to contribute to an initial or core assessment, and the development of the Child Plan, which would include the contribution of the Service if it is to offer an intervention.
The assessment and any subsequent intervention by the Service will need to take into account the involvement or other agencies, past or current.
Any intervention by the Service will be set out in a 'Plan'.
Each 'Plan' will have a clear exit strategy for continued support for the young person, family and school following the end of involvement by the Service.
Operational Policies, Procedures, and Inter-agency Protocols
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6. Performance Management of the Service
Monitoring
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Evaluation
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Review
To follow
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