Transcript Quick Guide to Your Local Support Team

A quick guide to your Local Support Team
This presentation covers
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What is a Local Support Team (LST) and what it is not?
Who is part of a LST?
Where are LSTs based?
What does a LST do?
Who do LSTs support work with?
How do you access support from a LST?
How can a LST and schools work together?
Where can you get further information from?
This is a brief presentation and further training and guidance is
available through your LST
What is a LST and what it is not?
What it is…
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An avenue which provides access
to support services in your local
area
A means of getting additional
support to help address unmet
needs of children and families
A method of engaging
professionals more quickly in
single service or multi-agency
(Common Assessment Framework
- CAF) support for children and
families
What it isn’t…
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Child Protection, social work team
Universal services
The port of call for everything
A team who holds all the Common
Assessment Frameworks
(CAF)/Team Around the Childs
(TAC)
A team that works in isolation from
everyone else
Who is in a Local Support
Team (LST)?
Staffordshire County Council services including:
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Children’s Centre Services – range of multi-agency services for 0-5 year
olds delivered via 52 children’s centres and targeted outreach
Locality Family Services – parent and family support, including education
welfare
Targeted Youth Support Teams – teenage pregnancy worker, prevention
workers, targeted youth workers
Inclusion services – hearing and visually impairment services, educational
psychology, disability gateway workers, portage, autism outreach linked to
team
SENs services – behaviour and learning support linked to teams
In-reach social work (planned not ad hoc)
Red denotes services
managed under Families
Local Support Team (LST) Co-ordinator
First Targeted Services
Staffordshire County Council teams work in conjunction with a vast range of services
locally, many of whom have linked up services at a local level as part of the LST
approach
Where are Local Support Teams (LSTs) based?
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20 LSTs across Staffordshire
Based on school clusters but approx 2-3 per district
In your local area
Co-located with Safeguarding Teams
Delivery in schools, family homes, community venues,
children’s centres, youth clubs
What do Local Support
Teams (LSTs) do?
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Provide early help and support
Help identify, assess and act on a child’s unmet need
Deliver interventions
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Consultation
Case work
Group and family based work
Whole school/setting/community intervention
Work closely with universal and specialist services to provide a
continuum of support, avoid duplication and multiple assessment and
enhance communication to ensure a child’s needs are met
Remember where there is immediate concern about actual or likely
significant harm Staffordshire Safeguarding Children’s Board
procedures must be followed www.staffsscb.org.uk/procedures.
LSTs are not a response to child protection concerns and deal
with lower level unmet need.
Who do Local Support Teams (LSTs) support?
• 0-19 year olds or up to 25 years if a young person has a
disability
• Children, young people AND their family
• School cohorts or children living in the area not on
school role (education services only)
• Children residing in Staffordshire
• Children with additional (level 2) or multiple (level 3)
needs
How do you access support from a Local
Support Team (LST)?
• Talk to a member of the team
• Complete a ‘request for support form’ and send it to the team or
direct to the service you require
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One form all services (some services still coming on line)
One form includes pre-CAF
One form kept simple but meaningful
One form but requires consent
• Team allocation meeting – outcome of request for support decided
and communicated
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Some services such as Educational Psychology, Behaviour and Learning
Support have a set number of sessions per school
How can a Local Support Team and a
school work together?
• Together is key – schools and the LST will need to work
jointly to address the needs of children
• Allocation meetings (some teams are running meetings
at school venues and school pastoral staff are in
attendance)
• Setting up a clear and agreed method of
communication with your LST will be key
Where can you get further
information?
• School Learning Network (SLN)
http://education.staffordshire.gov.uk/EveryChildMatters/familiesfirst/
(This includes contact names, LST boundaries, all forms and
guidance notes etc)
• Local relationships will make this work
– County Managers (East and West)
– District Team Managers
– Local Support Team Co-ordinators