EARLY INTERVENTION TEAM
The primary role of the Service is to provide advice, information and support to schools, children and families to raise levels of attendance. We do this in the following ways:
- Undertaking home visits in cases of absence from school.
- Attendance at, and written reports for, case conferences.
- A legal duty to assist in child protection enquiries, together with a local requirement to do a home visit on the first day of any absence of a child whose name is on the Child Protection Register.
- Attempting to trace lost children.
- Working with children who do not have a school place.
- Providing services to Pupil Referral Units, the Young Mums’ Unit and all special schools.
- Processing School Attendance Orders.
- Take court action against parents who fail to make sure their children receive a proper education.
- Working with other agencies, eg, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), schools outside Bolton, children living in temporary accommodation, eg, women’s refuges.
- A legal duty to licence and monitor all children under 16 who work in permitted employment, take part in entertainment performances or who act as models.
- A legal duty to licence a person, who may be a man or a woman, to chaperone a child during a performance.
Early Intervention Key Workers can be contacted via a child’s school or by contacting the Early Intervention and Connexions Service.