Children & Young People's Services Resource guide for professionals
Children & Young People's Services Resource guide for professionals Children & Young People's Services Resource guide for professionals
4. Partnership TriagePartnership Triage was launched in Hackney in July 2009; it is led by Young Hackney and acts as asingle point of access for agencies to look up data on children. It also operates as an intelligenceteam that provides connectivity to:• Hackney Learning Trust• GPs and Health• Hackney Children & Young People’s Services (CYPS)• Police information systems• Homerton HospitalPartnership Triage links Children’s Social Care (CSC) First Response Team, Children’s Centre Multi-Agency Team (MAT) meetings, Children & Young People’s Partnership Panel (CYPPP) and YoungHackney.The Common Support Framework is intrinsically linked to the Partnership Triage Unit. The Unit isequipped to research information on children from 0 – 18 from a range of sources determining whichagencies (if any) are already involved. It can also gather additional relevant information and passthis comprehensively to the agency that can provide the most appropriate service response; the unitwill also monitor the actions that arise from those referrals. Information is held in a database thatallows practitioners to make a more balanced judgment about potential need and risk based uponthe accumulation of evidence.All agencies referring families that may require a coordinated approach to delivery should referdirectly into the Partnership Triage triage@hackney.gov.ukAppropriate referrals for families with children 0 – 5 will be passed to the Multi-Agency Team (MAT)meetings held in Children’s Centres. Appropriate referrals for children and young people aged6 – 19 are passed to the Children and Young People’s Partnership Panel (CYPPP) both of whichprovide a multi-agency forum of professionals who will agree a coordinated approach to planninginterventions for children, young people and families.The pages that follow provide a brief guide to the range of services for children, young people andfamilies within Hackney.5. Health Services5.1 Acute Services at the Homerton HospitalChildren’s Emergency AssessmentThe Children’s Emergency Assessment unit is part of the hospital’s accident and emergencydepartment. Open 24 hours a day children and young people are cared for in a dedicated unit by ateam of children’s nurses working with accident and emergency doctors and paediatricians; GPs see,assess, treat and/or arrange admission for further treatment as necessary.Telephone: 020 8510 7808/732812Resource Guide for professionals | Updated January 2013
The Starlight UnitStarlight Ward provides inpatient accommodation for children or young people up to the age of 16years who need admission for further assessment or treatment. Children or young people are caredfor by a team of children’s nurses in a dedicated ward. The service is led by a team of ConsultantPaediatricians who oversee the assessment, treatment and review of children, with the aim ofensuring early discharge home with on-going access to and support from the consultant team orwith input from the Children’s Community Nursing Team until the child or young person is ready tobe discharged back to their GP.Telephone: 020 8510 7450/7395(See pages 14 – 16 for outpatients information)5.2 Community Paediatric ServicesThe community paediatric team is made up of six consultants, two associate specialists, twospeciality paediatricians and five paediatricians in training. They have a pivotal role in thesupervision and co-ordination of care for the individual child/young person and their family. Theteam works across universal, targeted and specialist services providing services in three principalareas:• child development and disability, including audiology and the assessment of children with specialeducational needs;• child protection and looked after children; and• child public health including immunisation and obesity. There is a named paediatrician for each schoolin Hackney and locality clinics for children with common developmental problems as well as for obesityand enuresis (bed wetting).Services are based at Hackney Ark and Hackney Community College but delivered at the HackneyArk and in a range of other community venues including clinics, schools and nurseries. Referrals areaccepted primarily from health professionals but are also accepted from social care and education.The service lead is Dr Gabrielle Laing (Consultant Community Paediatrician and Associate MedicalDirector) – contact details as below:Community Health ServicesDefoe Block, 50 Hoxton Street,London N1 6LP020 7683 4691Referrals to Defoe Building (HackneyCommunity College) for the following clinics:• Special advisory clinics• Enuresis• Obesity• Growth• School and statutory assessments• Safeguarding, looked after children• Immunisation• General enquiriesThe Hackney ArkChildren and Young People’s Centre ForDevelopment and Disability, Downs Park Road,London E8 2FP020 7014 7000Referrals to Hackney Ark for the followingclinics:• Development and disability• Complex communication• Developmental/pre-term follow up• Vision• Audiology• Physical assessment clinicResource Guide for professionals | Updated January 2013 13
- Page 5 and 6: 2.1 Agreed Definitions for Hackney
- Page 8 and 9: Education • Achieving key stages
- Page 10 and 11: Family andEnvironment• Good famil
- Page 14 and 15: Starlight OutpatientsService Contac
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4. Partnership TriagePartnership Triage was launched in Hackney in July 2009; it is led by <strong>Young</strong> Hackney and acts as asingle point of access <strong>for</strong> agencies to look up data on children. It also operates as an intelligenceteam that provides connectivity to:• Hackney Learning Trust• GPs and Health• Hackney <strong>Children</strong> & <strong>Young</strong> People’s <strong>Services</strong> (CYPS)• Police in<strong>for</strong>mation systems• Homerton HospitalPartnership Triage links <strong>Children</strong>’s Social Care (CSC) First Response Team, <strong>Children</strong>’s Centre Multi-Agency Team (MAT) meetings, <strong>Children</strong> & <strong>Young</strong> People’s Partnership Panel (CYPPP) and <strong>Young</strong>Hackney.The Common Support Framework is intrinsically linked to the Partnership Triage Unit. The Unit isequipped to research in<strong>for</strong>mation on children from 0 – 18 from a range of sources determining whichagencies (if any) are already involved. It can also gather additional relevant in<strong>for</strong>mation and passthis comprehensively to the agency that can provide the most appropriate service response; the unitwill also monitor the actions that arise from those referrals. In<strong>for</strong>mation is held in a database thatallows practitioners to make a more balanced judgment about potential need and risk based uponthe accumulation of evidence.All agencies referring families that may require a coordinated approach to delivery should referdirectly into the Partnership Triage triage@hackney.gov.ukAppropriate referrals <strong>for</strong> families with children 0 – 5 will be passed to the Multi-Agency Team (MAT)meetings held in <strong>Children</strong>’s Centres. Appropriate referrals <strong>for</strong> children and young people aged6 – 19 are passed to the <strong>Children</strong> and <strong>Young</strong> People’s Partnership Panel (CYPPP) both of whichprovide a multi-agency <strong>for</strong>um of <strong>professionals</strong> who will agree a coordinated approach to planninginterventions <strong>for</strong> children, young people and families.The pages that follow provide a brief <strong>guide</strong> to the range of services <strong>for</strong> children, young people andfamilies within Hackney.5. Health <strong>Services</strong>5.1 Acute <strong>Services</strong> at the Homerton Hospital<strong>Children</strong>’s Emergency AssessmentThe <strong>Children</strong>’s Emergency Assessment unit is part of the hospital’s accident and emergencydepartment. Open 24 hours a day children and young people are cared <strong>for</strong> in a dedicated unit by ateam of children’s nurses working with accident and emergency doctors and paediatricians; GPs see,assess, treat and/or arrange admission <strong>for</strong> further treatment as necessary.Telephone: 020 8510 7808/732812<strong>Resource</strong> Guide <strong>for</strong> <strong>professionals</strong> | Updated January 2013
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