Children and Family Care
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Leicester City Children and Young People's Service provides a wide range of support services for children, young people and families.
Our priorities in providing services for children are:
- Protecting children who are at risk of physical or sexual abuse or neglect
- Doing a good job of looking after those children who cannot live with their own families, often because of abuse or total family breakdown
- Wherever possible, helping families solve their problems themselves, either by working with them direct or by putting them in touch with another specialist agency.
We aim to keep families together wherever possible. We work closely with children and young people, their parents, relatives or other carers and with other organisations to find the best solution. This will always take into account the child and family’s religious, cultural and social background.
Some of these services can only be provided following an assessment of need.
For more details about our services, please see the list below. Alternatively, you can find more information about services for children in the attachment at the end of this page: My Child ... Which Services?
Support services
- Adoption: Advice on adopting a child and support to families who adopt is available through our adoption team and the social work teams based at the maternity units at Leicester Royal Infirmary and Leicester General Hospital.
- Child Protection: Specialist intervention with children and young people. For instance children who are being, or have been, abused or are in trouble and need our help.
- Children and Family Centres: We have a number of children and family centres which provide a range of services to support families and children in need, such as sessional day care.
- Children's Rights Service: A service offering advice and support to children that the local authority is involved with.
- Leaving Care: A comprehensive service is provided for young people leaving the care of the local authority.
- Out of Hours Social Services Support: An Emergency Team offering out-of-hours emergency support to children and families.
- Residential Care: An option for children and young people who have to live away from their families for a variety of reasons.
- Respite Care: Sometimes known as ‘respite care’ for a child, either with a family or in a children’s home. This provides the break needed for families of disabled children or those with special needs, to enable them to continue coping with caring.
- Shared Care: The Shared Care scheme aims to provide short term breaks for children and young people with disabilities.
- Support for children with HIV: Specialist social workers that can provide information, offer advice and arrange support for people living with HIV/AIDS and their carers.
- Young Offenders: Support, guidance, supervision and training for young people in trouble with the law.
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