The Referral & Assessment Team
The Referral and Assessment Team offers a point of contact for professionals, parents, children and other members of the community who may have concerns about children or who are seeking advice. In 2007-8 we received nearly 10,000 contacts from professionals and family members in relation to the children of Southwark.
Initial assessments are sometimes followed by more detailed assessments. In 2007-8 Social Care undertook over 2,000 assessments of need and risk. This led to initial child protection case conferences on approximately 330 children within the system, including unborn children. Many children who are the subjects of core assessments will go on to have allocated social workers and longer-term services from the Family Resource or Family Support teams.
