Service Description: Looked After Children's Team - To provide support to young people who are looked after by the local authority and who have a current allocated social worker from one of the 6 Looked After Children's Units
Also known as:- 0-16 LAC, 16+ LAC, 16+ Team, Children in Care
Answer: You have a right to see your family. Your social worker will make sure you are able to keep in touch with your family and any other people who are important to you. This is often called ‘contact’. This could be visits, letters and telephone calls. Your views and wishes should be listened to when decisions are being made about contact. We want you and your family to enjoy contact. We want it to be regular and reliable. If for some reason contact is difficult your social worker will try to help you sort this out. You can choose not to have contact but you should know your social worker has a duty to tell your parents how you are doing even if you are not seeing them. Most contact is encouraged. However, any contact that you have must be right and safe for you. If contact is seen as unsafe, a court can make a decision about who you see, how often and whether visits should be supervised. Contact may even be stopped altogether. The court’s decision is written down and called a ‘contact order’