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The Vulnerable Children’s Team is made up of workers who provide a variety of services in the community for Looked after Children and youth offending.
Find out more about each of these services:
We provide consultation to professionals working with young offenders or those at risk of offending.
Following consultation we may, in agreement with the referrer, make an assessment of a young person.
We will then discuss the findings with the referrer and the young person (and their family where appropriate).
In some cases, we would offer appropriate treatment following which the young person would be discharged back to the care of the referrer or to the care of their GP where appropriate.
Find out more about referring to us.
You can learn more about Yorkshire and Humber Forensic CAMHS on their website.
At times there can also be difficulties for young people as a result of living within the care system and we work to help deal with these too.
We offer various ways of working depending on what is thought to be most helpful. This can be therapeutic work on an individual basis for young people or their carers, for carers and young people together, and/or for the professional system around the child.
For children and young people living in care, lots of adults are involved in their lives, such as foster carers, social workers, supervising social workers (these are the foster carer’s social workers) independent reviewing officers and various staff from schools, as well as ourselves.
MAPS works to support the network in maintaining as much stability and understanding as possible for young people at all times.
Difficulties in Looked After Children
Looked After Children who may be helped by our Multi-Agency Psychological Support Team (MAPS) are generally in care because they have not been able to receive appropriate care from their parents or other family members.
The impact of inadequate care at a crucial time for brain development (particularly the last three months of pregnancy and first two years post birth) affects a child’s functioning across the board and can be called Developmental or Complex Trauma.
Children with this condition have difficulties understanding and regulating feelings and behaviour, have poor self-esteem, attachment, social and learning difficulties, and can also have sensory and motor difficulties.
We help the network of professionals understand these difficulties and see how they can take a therapeutic re-parenting approach. We also, if appropriate, work directly with the children and young people in care.
Find out more about referring to us.
Team members work intensively with the young people and their family over a period of three to five months.
The MST team in Sheffield was initially part of a Department of Health pilot scheme looking at the effectiveness of MST in the UK.
It is a collaborative venture between Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, and the Children and Young People’s Directorate.
The team is closely supervised and the project is being evaluated nationally.
Find out more about referring to us and how our strategies work.
We help in lots of different ways to support children and care leavers up to 19 to get the right support in the right place at the right time.
Find out more about referring to us.
A Senior Mental Health Nurse from CAMHS is based within and provides direct input into Sheffield City Council’s Youth Justice Service.
The CAMHS Nurse will see young people aged 8-19+ years who are referred from the service.
Young people within the criminal justice system are up to three times more likely to have mental health problems compared with their peers in the general population.
As part of our role we also access information from the health database to support the court team with any additions to court and pre-sentence reports.
This allows us to access information, liaise with other healthcare professionals in order to communicate any relevant information back to the court team.
The CAMHS Nurse will always explain issues of confidentiality to the young person, and will work in partnership with them and their family to make sure everyone understands and agrees to the intervention, including liaison with all the key agencies involved.
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Becton Centre
call 0114 305 3106
Centenary House
call 0114 305 3218
Beighton Community CAMHS
call 0114 305 3106
email camhsspa@nhs.net
Centenary Community CAMHS
call 0114 305 3218
email camhsspa@nhs.net
To speak to the Trust switchboard
call 0114 271 7000
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