The five-storey centre covers more than 4,000 square metres, houses 260staff working in 23 children's services and cost 13.5m to create.It took more than 10 years to set up and each year it will supportthousands of children who have disabilities, behavioural problems,mental illness or are in care. And, in contrast to the difficultiesother areas are facing in getting health services involved in integratedworking, the biggest agency involved was Lewisham Primary CareTrust.
Tony O'Sullivan, the trust's clinical director of children and youngpersons' services, describes the list of teams and agencies involved aslengthy and that's an understatement. For starters there's the localimmunisation service, the trust's safeguarding team, Lewisham Child andAdolescent Mental Health Service and the borough's information sharingand assessment team.
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