The Together for Families Service brings several teams together into one service. These include:

• Children’s Single Point of Access (CSPoA)
• Missing and Exploitation Team
• Supporting Families Team
• Four ‘Together for Families’ teams, which combine the previous Access & Assessment (A&A) and Family Intervention (FIT) teams

Bringing these teams together helps us provide clearer, more consistent support for children, young people, and their families.

What this means for you

Our aim is to make sure social work is built on strong, trusting relationships. We want to:

• Listen carefully to what children and young people tell us
• Understand their everyday experiences
• Work with families to help them achieve the best possible outcomes

One social worker throughout

One of the biggest changes is that children and young people will have the same social worker for as long as they are receiving support from children’s social care.

Their social worker will stay with them until:

• Their case is closed, or
• They move to the Children Looked After team for ongoing support

This reduces the number of times families need to retell their story and helps build trust through longer-term working relationships..

How we support families

The service uses:

• Trauma-informed practice, which means we understand how past experiences can affect people
• Whole-family approaches, which means we consider everyone in the family, not just one person

Together, these approaches help us offer support that is respectful, compassionate, and tailored to each family’s needs.