Delivering an Integrated Adolescent Multi-Agency Specialist Service to Families with Adolescents at Risk of Care: Outcomes and Learning from the First Ten Years
L Talbot, P Fuggle, Z Foyston and K Lawson, The British Journal of Social Work, 2020
The needs of children and families are complex and require multidisciplinary input. A range of initiatives and programmes, aiming to address this, have been ineffective in reducing the numbers of children coming into care.
The Adolescent Multi-Agency Specialist Service (Amass) was established to work with families of adolescents (aged 10 to 16) on the edge of care, within Islington children’s services. Amass addresses multiple factors through an intervention model that aims to attend to the needs of both the family and the allocated social worker.
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