0-12 Service
We provide care planning for looked-after children age 0-12 including health, education, secondary transition and permanency plans. Children are helped to build resilience and a sense of family or cultural heritage and promote contact with their birth parents and extended family.
We also deliver a case management service to Family Proceedings Courts to determine appropriate outcomes for looked-after children.
Looked-After Services: 0 – 12, comprises:
- Provision of care planning for looked-after children age 0 – 12 including health, education, secondary transition and permanency plans
- Delivery of long-term plans (permanency) to promote adoption, Special Guardianship or permanent return home wherever possible
- Provision of effective life story interventions for looked-after children to build resilience and sense of family/cultural heritage
- Promotion of meaningful contact with birth parents and extended family
- Delivery of a contact service where court or risk assessments indicate that contact between the looked-after child and the extended family should be supervised
- Delivery of effective case management service to Family Proceedings Courts to determine appropriate outcomes for looked-after children
- Taking lead responsibility for managing an integrated Education Team to promote outcomes for looked-after children
- Actively supporting “Speakerbox” and effective participation activities
