2.11 Team Remit |
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1. Composition of the Team
The team consists of:
- Group Manager
- Assistant Group Manager
- 6 Social Workers / Senior Practitioners
- 2 Unqualified Social workers
- Social Worker for Deaf Children (Part Time)
- Team Administrator
- Outreach Co-ordinator
The team is located within the Children and Young Peoples Service.
The Group Manager reports to the Head of Service Social Care West, who in turn reports to the Assistant Director (Children and Young People Social Care).
The team is based at:
Joseph Lancaster Hall
Civic Centre
Rafford Way
Bromley
BR1 3UH
Telephone: 020-83134511
Fax number: 020-8313440
2. Remit of the Team
The Children’s Disability Team works with children and young people aged 0-19 who are permanently and substantially disabled and who live in the London Borough of Bromley.
Eligibility criteria are set out in CDT3.
Disabilities will include:
- Severe Learning Disability
- Severe Physical Disability
- Autistic Spectrum Disorder
- Disability arising out of serious or chronic illness
- Severe visual impairment
- Severe hearing impairment
A priority service is to provide support to disabled children to remain within the care of their parents/carers within their own homes.
The team also provides a service for disabled children who are Looked After in foster homes or residential settings, including those attending residential schools jointly funded by Social Services and Education.
Additionally the team works with disabled children that live at home and receive short-term breaks with foster carers or in short break units.
The team works closely with colleagues in Health and Education to provide a multi-agency service for individual children, and strategically around the development and provision of appropriate services for disabled children.
A Social Worker for Deaf Children and young people provides a distinct service for this client group.
The team is also part of the Early Support Programme, which provides services within a ‘Team Around the Child’ approach (Please see Early Support Procedure)
There may be situations where it is appropriate to transfer a case that has been open to another team, to the disability team.
- Cases being transferred should meet the Children’s Disability Team criteria.
- Cases should be transferred between Group Managers of the respective teams.
- The referring Social Worker should conclude any specific pieces of work, in which he / she is actively engaged, prior to hand over.
- No case should be transferred whilst the family is in crisis or there is threat of imminent family breakdown.
- Whenever possible, a Social Worker from the Children’s Disability Team should be invited to any relevant review or other meeting prior to transfer.
- In complex cases, there should be a meeting between the Social Workers allocated to the case from the respective teams.
- There should be a hand over meeting with the family.
- The file, including the LAC file for an accommodated child, should be up to date in accordance with the Recording Policy.
- A full transfer summary should be completed in line with the format in the Recording Procedures.
In the event of disagreement between the Children’s Disability Team and the referring team, the matter shall be referred to the respective Head’s of Service.
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