The reformed service will see professionals working in three aged-based teams to help children at crucial stages of their development and professionals from health, education and social care working together.
There will be an early years team, a middle years team and a transition team. The early years team, which will be responsible for children from birth to five-years-old, will work closely with the local primary care trust, which is giving the London borough premises for the team and providing a health worker.
The middle years team, for children aged between six- and 13-years-old, will work closely with the council's schools liaison worker and an educational psychologist, who will work with the team one day a week.
Children aged between 14 and 18 will get support from the transition team, which will include a nurse from the local primary care trust and a personal adviser from local Connexions service. The team will also work with the youth service and adult services to help disabled children make the transition into adulthood and services for over-18s.
Marion Rodin, head of integrated services in Brent's disabled children and young person's team, said the services would be based around a child's needs. After requests from parents there will also be key workers, with two based in each team, who will co-ordinate a child's care package. "It will make it a far more focused service," said Rodin.
"Combining the local knowledge and expertise of staff across all agencies will enable us to offer disabled children and their families so much more."
The middle years and transition teams began their work last week and the early years team will start in January.
The restructuring comes after Brent Council undertook a two-year review of its services for disabled children. Rodin said: "We wanted to have a more multi-agency approach to service delivery and we weren't meeting all the referrals and weren't able to respond in the way we wanted to."
There will be further consultation with families and children affected by the changes early next year once all the teams are up and running.
