Job roles within Children's Social Care

This is the access point for Children's Services in Powys and is where families can come for Information, Advice and Assistance. It is also where referrals to Children's Services are received.

The team gathers information, and with families and multi-agency colleagues we make decisions around eligibility for care and support and child protection. We ensure referrals are appropriately dealt with and acted upon in a timely way.

From here, children, young people and their families are moved on to either the Support for Families team for early help, or to the Assessment Team, where it is clear that an assessment is needed.

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We engage with children, young people and their families at the earliest possible opportunity to support them to make changes in order to achieve their family goals and prevent the need for statutory social work intervention.

We work closely with our colleagues in health, education, housing and other partner agencies, including the third sector, to assist families to link into their communities.

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This is where social workers work with children, young people and their families to undertake Wellbeing Assessments and section 47 enquiries. We ensure that all strengths, needs and risks are captured and assessed so that intervention can be effective.

If further involvement is needed, the child, young person and family are at the centre of, and co-produce, the plan.

Following assessment, some families may be stepped down to our early help team, or progressed through for Care and Support.

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Our Emergency Duty Team deal with out-of-hour emergency situations which cannot safely be left until the next working day. This team responds to safeguarding concerns and may give advice and support about mental health and urgent issues relating to children and young people arising whilst daytime services are closed.

Our team work on a rota basis and provide a generic service for the whole of the county for both Adult and Children’s Services.

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These teams focus on children, young people and their families where there has been a Social Work assessment and they have been identified as needing additional services. This may be children in need of care and support or protection, families in the Public Law Outline (PLO) process or in court proceedings.

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In these teams, children who are looked after and care leavers are our priority. We want to be the best parent we can be and work to make sure children and young people have every opportunity to fulfil their dreams.

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This service will help to ensure that children can remain living with their families wherever it is in their best interests and safe to do so. This service provides intensive support to stabilise and support families to reduce the need for children and young people coming into care.

If children do need to come into care the service will work with children and their families so that children can return home quickly and safely.

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This team enables children and young people to spend time with their parents and siblings in a safe and supportive environment.

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Powys Children’s Services are committed to caring for Powys children within the authority and developing our in-house provision as part of the closer to home strategy.

Residential Care provides quality care and support to Powys children in our in-house residential homes.

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