Children's Services
Teams
What we do and how to get in touch with us.
We aim to provide support to children, young people and their families who are in need. We are here to help and wherever possible we try to provide services to allow children and young people to stay with their families.
Child Care Assessment Team
Deals with referrals and undertakes assessments and child protection investigations.
Child Care Management Teams 1-3
Works with and provide support to families and children in need of care and support. Teams also work with children in need of protection and who are at risk of significant harm, and those young people looked after (YPLA). In conjunction with colleagues from the Personal Advisor team, the teams also provide support to young people leaving care between the ages of 16 and 18, including Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (USACs)
Personal Advisor Team
This team provides support, guidance and advocacy to young people leaving care between the ages of 16 and 25. This will include support around education, employment, training, housing and independent living skills.
Integrated Family Support Service
The Integrated Family Support Service consists of two teams, The Integrated Family Support Team and The Edge of Care Team.
The Integrated Family Support Team support families in crisis where there are issues with substance and alcohol use that impact and the safety and welfare of children.
The Edge Of Care Team provide intensive evidence based intensive interventions to families where children and young people are on the edge of the care system and may become Children and Young People Looked After by the Local Authority. The team aim to keep families together or enable children and young who become looked after to return home safely.
Family Placement Team
The Family Placement Team supports children, young people, families and carers across Pembrokeshire.
Our aim is to help children and young people have safe, stable and supportive family relationships, whether they are living with foster carers, relatives or people they already know, or are being supported to remain safely with their own family.
The team is responsible for recruiting, assessing, training and supporting foster carers through Foster Wales Pembrokeshire. We work with foster families providing different types of care, including short-term and long-term fostering, emergency care and short breaks. We also help to match children with foster families who can meet their individual needs and help them remain connected to their communities wherever possible.
We assess and support kinship carers – family members or other people who already have an important relationship with a child and are caring for them when their parents are unable to do so. We also provide support to Special Guardians and their families.
Our Supported Lodgings service provides young people preparing for adulthood with a safe and supportive home environment while they develop the confidence and practical skills they need to live more independently.
The team also delivers Step Up Step Down, which provides additional support to families who are experiencing difficulties. Family Support Foster Carers work alongside parents and children, offering mentoring, practical help, family activities and short breaks. The aim is to strengthen families and, wherever it is safe and right to do so, help children remain at home with their parents.
Across all of our services, we work closely with children, young people, families, carers and other professionals to provide the right support at the right time.
Children with Disabilities Team
Works with and provide support to families and children with disabilities in need of care and support. Teams also work with children in need of protection and who are at risk of significant harm, and those young people looked after (YPLA). In conjunction with colleagues from the Personal Advisor team, the teams also provide support to young people leaving care between the ages of 16 and 18, including Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children (USACs).
Holly House
Holly House provides short breaks for children and young people with disabilities from the ages of 8 to 18 who live in Pembrokeshire.
For more information:
Tel: (01437) 764551
Email: enquiries@pembrokeshire.gov.uk
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