Called Family Help: Contextual Safeguarding Service, it will involve exploitation specialists, youth workers and social workers working in partnership to help children “at the earliest opportunity when risks have been identified in their lives outside of the home”, the council said.
The new service has been launched through the London borough’s role as a pathfinder local authority in the DfE's Families First for Children (FFC) programme. It was selected through an open bid in April to be one of seven second wave pilot areas for the programme.
Others selected at this stage - to test improvements in social care - were Luton, Lewisham, Walsall, Warrington, Warwickshire and Wirral.
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