Services that contribute to the Levels Needs outcome Level 3 - Additional Needs Vulnerable children and their families Working together with Services with multiple additional needs or above: Outcome: Children and whose needs are more complex such Emotional and mental health families are offered as children and families who have a support additional support that will disability resulting in complex needs, Family Support (Intensive and help them make significant where there is low parental Think Family) change and improvement in capability/ capacity, poor engagement Child Development Centres their lives, enabling them to with key services such as school or Tier 2 Mental Health Services move into universal services health, challenging behaviour, mental (Children and Adult provision) and meet all of their needs health, substance misuse and Substance Misuse services and achieve positive domestic abuse This requires a more (Children and Adult provision) outcomes. coordinated and complex response Supported accommodation which brings agencies to support the Targeted support for Disabled child and family. Young People i.e. Short break services Level 4 - Complex / Children and young people who have Working together with Services significant needs suffered or are likely to suffer above: significant harm as a result of abuse or Children’s Social Care / Child Outcome: Children and neglect. Families reach the highest Protection / Care Proceedings / families receive a range of levels of need due to significant Fostering and Adoption and specialist and/or statutory mental or physical health needs or Residential Care interventions/ support that involvement in crime/substance Laces keeps them safe and allows misuse at a significant level. Children In-patient and continuing health them to make significant whose parents and wider family are care / Health care for children with change and improvement to unable to care for them. These needs life limiting illness / Tier 3 & 4 their lives, enabling them to may emerge after a series of, or CAMHS step-down into additional despite, targeted interventions or be Youth Offending Service needs services. sudden and/or so serious as to require immediate request for specialist and Probation statutory services. Specialist support services for Disabled YP including Education, Health and Care Plans and Looked after YP MASH
Levels Needs Services that contribute to the outcome Level 3 - Additional Needs Outcome: Children and families are offered additional support that will help them make significant change and improvement in their lives, enabling them to move into universal services and meet all of their needs and achieve positive outcomes. Vulnerable children and their families with multiple additional needs or whose needs are more complex such as children and families who have a disability resulting in complex needs, where there is low parental capability/ capacity, poor engagement with key services such as school or health, challenging behaviour, mental health, substance misuse and domestic abuse This requires a more coordinated and complex response which brings agencies to support the child and family. Working together with Services above: Emotional and mental health support Family Support (Intensive and Think Family) Child Development Centres Tier 2 Mental Health Services (Children and Adult provision) Substance Misuse services (Children and Adult provision) Supported accommodation Targeted support for Disabled Young People i.e. Short break services Level 4 - Complex / significant needs Outcome: Children and families receive a range of specialist and/or statutory interventions/ support that keeps them safe and allows them to make significant change and improvement to their lives, enabling them to step-down into additional needs services. Children and young people who have suffered or are likely to suffer significant harm as a result of abuse or neglect. Families reach the highest levels of need due to significant mental or physical health needs or involvement in crime/substance misuse at a significant level. Children whose parents and wider family are unable to care for them. These needs may emerge after a series of, or despite, targeted interventions or be sudden and/or so serious as to require immediate request for specialist and statutory services. Working together with Services above: Children’s Social Care / Child Protection / Care Proceedings / Fostering and Adoption and Residential Care Laces In-patient and continuing health care / Health care for children with life limiting illness / Tier 3 & 4 CAMHS Youth Offending Service Probation Specialist support services for Disabled YP including Education, Health and Care Plans and Looked after YP MASH
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