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Formerly National Children's Home, Action for Children provides a wide range of services for vulnerable children, young people and their families. Projects include adoption, fostering and children in care services, targeted services for young people including supported accommodation, family support services including children's centres, parenting support…

AMASS is a dedicated multi-agency team made up of specialist staff from social care, health, employment and education. The team works jointly with case holding and fostering social workers to improve outcomes for young people aged 10-16 maintaining stability in the home and foster placements.…

The Anchor service for victims of domestic violence and abuse ran as a six-month pilot from January to August 2018. We are now in the process of carrying out an evaluation with a view to re-launching the service later in the Autumn. While we are…

A national referral centre for children and families with attachment difficulties and complex trauma, usually relating to experiences of abuse and neglect. Assessment and treatment is also offered for parent child interaction difficulties. We work with looked after and adopted children as well as children…

The service works with girls and young women up to the age of 18 years who are involved in or at risk of being sexually exploited. Our aims are to provide a range of practical social care, health and educational services, which focus on prevention,…

We have recently launched a new programme for 16-25 year old Islington residents who have recently attempted suicide.  Body & Soul was set up 20 years ago to support children, teens and families living with HIV. We have pioneered a whole-person model of care that has…

The Bronze Group is a multi-agency operational group which aims to prevent and reduce young people’s involvement in gang activity, group offending and violent crime through the sharing of information, and the use of resources to work with individuals and groups. The Bronze Group membership…

CHICKS (Country Holidays for Inner City Kids) is a registered charity which provides free respite breaks to disadvantaged children from across the country. The breaks are designed to give children from inner cities, children living in poverty and those from abusive backgrounds, as well as…

The Child Abuse Investigation Team, CAIT, for Islington and Camden investigates criminal allegations of intra-familial child abuse, those perpetrated by a carer or worker in a child focused environment, parental abduction and sudden and unexpected deaths in infants under the age of two years.  …

The Children in Need Service undertakes a broad range of work with children in need and their families. We work with children and families who require additional support as well as with children and young people who are in need of protection. Key teams within…

We run a multi-agency service for looked after children. Our core function is to achieve good outcomes for looked after children, reducing the gap between outcomes for them and those of children in the community.

The Children's Active Involvement Service (CAIS) is for all children who have social workers, and those Looked After by Islington Children's Social Care and care leavers. This includes children in need, young people in children's homes and foster placements who live in Islington and also…

The Children’s Services Contact Team (CSCT) is the single point of contact for all services for children, young people and families in Islington who may need extra help and support. If you are worried about a child, please phone the Contact Team in the first…

The Contact Service provides supervised contact in a safe, friendly environment for children and their families. Services are provided by a diverse group of contact supervisors with special skills in child development, child protection, life story work and attachment.

This team co-ordinates the priority referral early years provision placements for children in Islington.

Families First supports families with school-aged children up to 19 years old. We’re here for you, in your community, when you need us. What we can help withWe know that being a parent is not always easy and that all families need extra help at…

This is a joint initiative between the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and the Home Office. Their trained professionals offer confidential advice and assistance to those who have been forced into marriage, people worried about friends or relatives, professionals working with actual or potential victims of…

Independent Futures works with all young people who have been looked after by Islington (Islington care leavers) aged 16-21 who are in the process of making the transition from the care system to independent living.   Independent Futures also continutes to work with Islington care…

Islington Families Intensive Team, IFIT, is a multi-disciplinary team with a broad range of training and experience including employment support, education, CAMHS, Youth Work and parenting interventions. IFIT is part of Islington’s Stronger Families Programme. Families eligible for the service have multiple and complex needs.…

The Family Group Conference (FGC) Service provides independent FGC co-ordinators who work with families and professionals to bring them together in a decision making forum called a Family Group Conference (FGC). The FGC ethos is around empowering children and their families. The emphasis is always…