Services

Our services

Brighter Futures for Children offers a range of services for children and young people. You can read more about each service by clicking on one of the boxes below.

Children’s social care

Social care services provide support to children in need of help and protection.  Our services include statutory assessment and care planning for children at risk of significant harm, provision for looked after children and those leaving care, as well as fostering and adoption services.

Education, Special Education Needs and Disabilities

Our services include school improvement support and traded services to schools, special educational needs and/disabilities, home to school transport and children missing education.

The statutory responsibilities for pupil place planning, admissions, children missing education, and elective home education are also managed by Brighter Futures for Children.

We support schools and parents on exclusions and provide guidance for schools and alternative providers on improvement and safeguarding.

Our services also include support in relation to educational psychology, therapies and emotional health and wellbeing support.

Early Help

Early help services provide targeted support to children, young people and families at the earliest point of identified need.

The aims of early help are to support families to support themselves, to prevent problems escalating and to reduce the number of children and young people needing statutory interventions.

The umbrella of early help also covers Early Years, including nurseries and children’s centres, the Youth Offending Service, young people’s drug and alcohol support, support for young parents, support for young people not in employment, education or training and information and advice and guidance for young people with special educational needs.