Our Risk Support Liaison Practitioners offer assessment and support via consultation and liaison with Blackpool Council’s Children’s Social Care teams including their adolescent service, Awaken, MASH, police, Youth Offending Team on behalf of all children and young people’s mental health services.
Practitioners work alongside the teams and around the young person to create crisis/safety planning and strategies to weave into contacts with young people who are consistently declining mental health support.
Risk Support Liaison focuses on supporting children and young people, their families and carers via the team that is around them to create and consider safety planning that can include agreed actions to be taken by both the workers around the young person and the young person themselves.
The aim of risk support is to create a plan which supports a young person to be able to access therapeutic support from one of our other Options4CYP services.
We work collaboratively with Blackpool Children’s Social Care and Blackpool Adolescent Services offering support to teams and individual professionals to support an understanding of need and to focus support where it is most needed for the young person.
Risk Support Liaison focuses on supporting children and young people, their families and carers via the team that is around them to create and consider safety planning that can include agreed actions to be taken by both the workers around the young person and the young person themselves.
The aim of risk support is to create a plan which supports a young person to be able to access therapeutic support from one of our other Options4CYP services.
We work collaboratively with Blackpool Children’s Social Care and Blackpool Adolescent Services offering support to teams and individual professionals to support an understanding of need and to focus support where it is most needed for the young person.
Risk support is accessed by any professional already supporting a young person. We consider and agree a clear understanding of what happens next, so that the professional is working with the team, the networks and the young person in order to think together to create a plan.
If you have any concerns regarding a young person, please discuss these with other professionals who are involved in their care, for example, Blackpool Council’s Children’s Social Care teams including their adolescent service, Awaken, MASH, police and Youth Offending Team. Colleagues from these services will consult with one of our risk support liaison practitioners, where appropriate.
