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WORK PROGRAMME 2003 -
PROJECTS COMPLETED AND IN PROGRESS
A review of the work of the social work and psychology departments of this specialist tertiary hospital, to make recommendations for the integrated management of the departments and the principles needed to underpin this new service for sick children and their families.
Commissioned by Great Ormond Street Hospital Trust and Camden SSD Best Value Review Team, via the NCB
Completed January 2003
Responsibility for the implementation of the Assessment Framework for children in need and their families by social work staff. Including the development of forms for initial and core assessments, child protection conference reports, children in need reviews, and the contribution of other agencies to assessments. Plus the production and updating of an Induction Pack for new staff, and the introduction of common assessment forms to health, education and the voluntary sector.
Commissioned by LB Camden SSD
Completed April 2003
A study of 100 files of cases transferred from Camden’s Referral & Assessment Teams to the long-term Children in Need social work teams, with a focus on lessons for practice about how staff identify need, severity of need, desirable outcomes and service responses.
Commissioned by Dartington-i
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE FORUM
REVIEW OF CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
Completed June 2003
Compilation of a directory of local services, as part of the Borough’s IRT programme, with entries clustered under headings of the “need groups” that had emerged from a multi-agency audit of children and family needs led by RTB in the previous year. With information about the service offered, the provider agency, contact details, referral method and threshold criteria.
Commissioned by LB Harrow Children & Young People’s IRT Project
Completed July 2003
REVIEW OF CHILDREN LOOKED AFTER BY INDEPENDENT FOSTER AGENCIES
A study of the met and unmet mental health needs of children placed out of borough in independent foster agencies. With an audit of the case files of half of the children and young people in placement; interviews with parents, foster carers and staff from partner agencies; and group discussion with staff from relevant social work teams. Part of the CAMHS Modernisation Agenda, and to help inform the design of future services.
Commissioned by LB Hounslow SSD and the West London Mental Health Trust, via YoungMinds
Completed August 2003
A study to elicit the views of service providers about the need for counselling services for children aged 4 to 13 who fall below the threshold for social services intervention, and to identify messages from the research evidence. To help inform the commissioning of Children’s Fund services in relation to two strands of activity – counselling services, and services using counselling skills.
Commissioned by Sefton Children’s Fund
Completed September 2003
TRAINING IN ASSESSMENT FORMS COMPLIANT WITH THE AF
A rolling programme of half day and longer courses for new social work staff and senior practitioners and team managers in Camden. A refresher about the Assessment Framework, an introduction to the staff Induction Pack, and coaching on the use of the Borough’s assessment forms.
Commissioned by Dartington-i
EVALUATION OF AN EARLY INTERVENTION SERVICE FOR ADOLESCENTS AND FAMILIES
A project to enable staff to track progress in the work of the Joint Adolescent Service, a new project in which social services and CAMHS are combining their resources to offer short-term focused intervention to young people and their families in order to try and prevent family breakdown. Using pre- and post-intervention scales to measure the extent to which identified outcomes are achieved during the first year of the service. The service was developed from an earlier, multi-agency audit of need led by RTB.
Commissioned by LB Sutton Community Services