CSC CAMHS
Hackney Children’s Social Care (CSC) is the first Children’s Social Care Service in the country to introduce small multidisciplinary Social Work Units (SWU) as a way of supporting families towards change. In the new structure, RECLAIMING SOCIAL WORK, the SWUs have been created so as to enable those engaged in direct work with the children and families to benefit from the support inherent in the Unit structure. Having a range of professionals available in the Units means it is possible to provide assessments for young people and their families using the expertise of several disciplines, with direct lines of communication to more specialist services within the Borough if such a need is identified.
Each of the forty-eight new units is lead by a Consultant Social Worker, who will have working alongside them another Social Worker, a Children’s Practitioner, a Unit Coordinator and a Clinician (Clinical Practitioner or Systemic Family Therapist); fundamentally changing the skill-set of the SWU by the inclusion of non-social work practitioners.