Introduction |
parents and carers | young
people | professionals
Integrated working focuses on enabling and encouraging
professionals to work together and to adopt common processes to
deliver frontline services, coordinated and built around the needs
of children and young people.
Introduction
Children’s Act 2004
The Children’s Act 2004 provides the underpinning for Every
Child Matters: Change for Children – the programme aimed at
transforming Children’s Services
Further information about the Children's Act
2004
Every Child Matters
Every Child Matters is all about improving the life
chances of children and young people, reducing inequalities and
helping them achieve. The Every Child Matters green paper
identified the five outcomes that are most important to children
and young people:
- Be healthy: enjoying good physical and mental health and living
a healthy life style.
- Stay safe: being protected from harm and abuse.
- Enjoy and achieve: getting the most out of life and developing
skills for adulthood
- Make a positive contribution: being involved with community and
society and not engaging in anti-social or offending
behaviour.
- Achieve economic well-being: not being prevented by economic
disadvantage from achieving their full potential in life.
Every Child matters website
Integrated working in the City of London
The City of London is committed to integrating its systems and
processes so that the needs of children and families are met in a
more effective way. As part of delivering Every Child
Matters, the integrated working programme will introduce new
ways of working which will help to join up services and support
multi-agency intervention.
Parents and carers
When you child needs extra support, we want to find the best way
forward as soon as possible. The leaflet below explains a new
way of working together which puts your family at the heart of
decisions made about your child.
Download the leaflet - Welcome to a new way of
helping families (257kb)
Download the Bengali version - Welcome to a new
way of helping families (811kb)
Young people
Sometimes you may need extra help or support to sort out a
problem. You don’t need to feel alone. The leaflet below
explains a new way making sure you get the right help as soon as
possible.
Download the leaflet - Welcome to a new way of
helping children and young people (408kb)
Download the Bengali version - Welcome to a new
way of helping children and young people (678kb)
Professionals
I work with children and young people, does this affect
me?
Yes. If you work with children and young people you need to be
involved. Integrated working applies to staff across all
agencies, from nurseries and children’s centres, GPs and school
nurses, teachers and school staff, the police and youth services
and many more whose work involves children and young people.
What should I do next?
To develop your understanding of integrated working, take a look
at the links above which will provide you with information from the
national Every Child Matters website. Also, the City is
holding Awareness Raising Sessions for all staff whose work
involves children and young people. The sessions will be
taking place over the next few months and it’s important that you
attend. If you manage a service, do encourage your staff to attend,
and you can call the number below to locate a session or book one
for your team. You can also download a flyer to share at team
meetings or pin up on the notice board.
Download the Every Child Matters
flyer (80kb)
For further information on the Integrated Working programme or
to locate or book an Awareness Raising Session call 020 7332
1750.
Information on how what this programme means for children, young
people and families is being produced and will follow shortly.
Checking if a CAF has been completed
If you work for another Local Authority and want to
check whether a professional working in the City of London has
already completed a CAF for a young person I am working with.
Please email the young person’s name and date of birth to:
CAF@cityoflondon.gov.uk or
call the Children’s Services administrator on 020 7332 3621. You
will receive a response within four working days.