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…
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- Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.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.…
- Empower Black, minority ethnic and refugee(BAMER) women, particularly South Asian, Turkish or Iranian women who are experiencing domestic Violence, sexual violence & harmful practices with culturally sensitive advice, support and safe housing-enabling them to make positive & appropriate choices for themselves. Provide counseling to women…
- 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,…
- Monday to Friday, office hoursCoronavirus Update Body & Soul is currently providing the following services: Counselling / Emotional regulation skills sessions over the phone / online to young people at risk of suicide. Remote casework support and befriending service to people of all ages living with HIV Online…
- Office hours: Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. Case workers are flexible to meet families outside of office hours once a case has been allocated to a worker.Bright Futures provide whole family support to families with school-aged children up to 19 years old/25 with SEND. We’re here for you, in your community when you need us. What we can help with We know that being a parent is not always easy and…
- Bright Start Priority Early Learning places are for children who are in need and identified as being a priority by Islington Children’s Services, Whittington Health, early education providers and other health and early help professionals. Children in these places are fully integrated with their peers…
- Office Hours: Monday to Friday, 8.30am to 5pm. Each break runs from mid-Monday to mid-Friday every week. (From March to November)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. …
- Childline is a registered charity. It provides a free and confidential phone counselling service for any child with any problem 24 hrs a day. Children are also welcome to write, without a stamp, to Childline at the address below. There is also a helpline available…
- Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 5.00pmThe Children in Need Service work with children and families who require additional support and with children and young people who are in need of protection. Key teams within the Children in Need Service are: Children's Services Contact Team, which deals with all new enquiries…
- Monday to Friday 9am-5pmChildren Looked After Health Team aims to promote the health of Children Looked After/Young People in line with the requirements of statutes and regulations, in order to ensure that children are happily placed, thrive and achieve their potential. The team provides statutory health assessments, flexible outreach…
- Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pmWe 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.
- Monday to Friday from 10:00am to 6:00pm, additional activities run between 5:00pm to 7:00pm during term time and there are some holiday activities.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…
- Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm. The phone line will divert to the Emergency Duty Team at all other times.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 CSCT first: 020 7527 7400 The…
- Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 6.00pm and Saturday, 9.30am to 4.00pm.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.
- Domestic Abuse, Recovering Together (DART) is a group programme developed by NSPCC to help families recover from the adverse effects of domestic abuse. DART helps to rebuild & strengthen the parent-child relationship and helps children who have been affected by domestic abuse deal with day-to-day…
- Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. Sometimes Family Group Conferences are held in the evening or on Saturdays.The Early Help 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…
- Monday to Friday 9.30am - 3pm, excluding Bank HolidaysFamily Rights Group promotes policies and practices that keep children safe within their family and strengthen the family and community networks of those children who cannot live at home. We campaign for families to have their voice heard, be treated fairly and get help…
- Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pmThis 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…