Appendix 1 – Services for Children, Young People and Families Organisational Chart

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SERVICES FOR CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE & FAMILIES 
Support to help Children and Young People remain within the Community 
LOOKED AFTER SERVICES
FOSTERING/KINSHIP/ADOPTION
• Family Based Care – provides
support to carers and children/
young people in placement (this
includes provision of foster care
and kinship care)
• Adoption Team supports
children/young people from birth
to 18; the team also recruits and
supports adoptive parents to
provide families for those children
who cannot live with their birth
parents or extended families
• Family Change – work with
children aged 4-18 who have
experienced trauma which is
impacting on their development
and capacity to function
• Review Team- circumstances of
all looked after children are
reviewed at 6 monthly intervals. 
INTENSIVE SUPPORT SERVICES
• REACH (Resilient, Engaged,
Achieving, Confident, Health)
REACH is multi-disciplinary team
that provides intensive support
(24/7) to families with multiple and
complex needs, where there is a
significant likelihood of the young
person (aged 12-18) becoming
accommodated away from home
i.e. on the edge of care
• CREST - Connecting Relationships
Empowering Supporting Together)
offering Family Group Decision
Making and Lifelong Links to
identify families to provide care and
support.
• SHINE Outreach - collaborative
working to Support families of
children with a disability to help
maintain Healthy lifestyles and
routines to promote Independence
skills, using a Nurturing and
Empowering approach
SERVICES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
• Throughcare/After Care/UASC –
supporting young people to prepare for
life when they leave care; including
supporting unaccompanied asylum
seeking children & young people
• Families Empowering Communities –
supporting families within their
communities through the provision of
universal supports and bespoke 1:1
family support (Letham & Crieff)
• Youth Services – provides support to
young people who need: access to
employment and training; support on a
1:1 basis or through group work);
support if they are deemed as having
high vulnerability and are causing
concern within their community; support
when presenting sexually harmful
behaviours; participation in young
person’s plans
• Corporate Parenting – supporting care
experienced young people to develop
positive relationships with their family,
friends, professionals and other trusted
adults
FIELDWORK SERVICES
FIELDWORK TEAMS
EARLY HELP/FIRST POINT OF
CONTACT
• Child Protection & Duty – first
point of contact for those in
need of child protection or
welfare response
• COPE - Children and young
people who are Open cases to
social work and need Planned
interventions at Evening (until
10pm) and weekends) to
prevent escalation of need
• Family Focus – early help for
families experiencing difficulties
• CAD (Children and Disabilities)
work with children/young people
and their families where
disabilities is the main issue
• Change Is A Must offers
intensive family support and
assessment of young children
(pre-birth-3 years) 
FIELDWORK TEAMS
LONGER TERM SUPPORT
• Perth City & Highland
• Perth City
• Perth City & South 
• Strathearn & Kinross
• Blairgowrie 
Fieldwork Teams provide
assessment and longer-term
support to children and families
which could be at times of stress;
ongoing concerns about a child’s
welfare or when a child has been
referred to the Children’s Reporter 
LOOKED AFTER SERVICES OUT OF HOURS SERVICE 
REGISTERED CARE SERVICES
• Wellbank House, Young People’s Housing Support – providing
proactive residential work supporting a move to independence for
homeless young people between ages of 16 and 24 (including
unaccompanied asylum-seeking children)
• Woodlea Cottage, Care Home Service for children with severe,
complex and enduring needs arising from physical and learning
disabilities for children aged 7-18 years
Evenings and weekend support for all concerns
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