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Children and Young People's Social Care Services
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Sheffield is changing. Already rated as an excellent authority we are at the cutting edge of change in Children’s services and have a strong vision to ensure that all children and young people are both high achieving and emotionally well. Following a successful Joint Area Review (JAR) inspection, we recognise that there is still much to do to make our vision a reality in our increasingly diverse communities. We are committed to driving forward improvements as we strive to meet the challenges of raising attainment in schools within the city.
We are passionate about improving the lives of the children and young people within the city.
Within the Children & Young People's Social Care Service we have a range of different teams meeting the needs of our local communities. We offer a 24 /7 service thus allowing Social Workers a diverse choice of teams and hours of work.
Within the service we offer specialist teams working at a number of access points across the city specialising in short term assessment work, we work with a number of children on the Child Protection Register and those who are 'Looked After' by the Local Authority. We also have a specialist Permanency & Throughcare team who work with children and young people on a long term basis.
The diversity of the teams allows Social Workers to develop specialist skills with their chosen client group.
- Forefront of 3 key national developments:
- ‘trail-blazer’ authority for Information Sharing and Assessment (Safety Net) development
- pilot authority for Area Agreements (enabling flexible budgets)
- pathfinder Children’s Trust
- Founder member of Research in Practice
- SCIE partner in the development of knowledge based programmes aimed at supporting and improving practice
- Organisational support for evidence informed practice
- Continuous improvement as part of our commitment to organisational learning
The Every Child Matters website has further information on government aims for all organisations involved with providing services to children.
Downloads
Message from Jonathan Crossley-Holland
Executive Director: Children and Young People’s Services
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Executive Director: Children and Young People’s Services
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Information on the Children's Specialist Services within Sheffield (21 KB)
Structure chart for the Children and Young People's Directorate (39 KB)
Details of senior management and their teams within Children's Specialist Services (24 KB)
Information on Senior Managers and their teams within Fieldwork Services (28.5 KB)
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