Oct 12, 2022, Cambridgeshire Live: Latest on new intensive therapeutic support hub to keep children out of long term care https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/latest-new-intensive-therapeutic-support-25240196
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A new ‘intensive therapeutic support hub’ will offer help to keep children with their families and out of long term care. The hub is planned to bring together a range of services in one place to offer support to children with learning disabilities, Autism, or challenging behaviours.
Cambridgeshire County Council has received £1million [$1.1M] in a Government grant to fund the project for the first year. There are plans to apply for further funding in following years. The new hub is planned to be based in The Hawthorns, a former children’s home in Cambridge. It will mainly offer support to children aged 11 to 15 who would be at risk of permanent exclusion from school, or family breakdown requiring high level short breaks. However, it will be open to children from eight to 18 years of age, with the possibility of offering support up to 25 years old. The hub is planned to offer overnight care and support alongside offering advice and guidance. Children not in education or awaiting a school placement will also be able to access some schooling on the site. The plans follow an agreement by the county council to bring existing overnight and residential children’s homes back into the control of the authority. In a report presented to the Children and Young People Committee yesterday (Tuesday, October 11) it said: “The intensive therapeutic support hub will support children and young people with Autism, Learning Disability, and challenging behaviours to remain within their family and community settings.
“The hub will provide intensive therapeutic interventions and family centred support, providing positive behaviour support to both the child, their families, and the network of support in their community. This innovation will bring together highly trained and skilled staff, positive behaviour support coordinators, child and adolescent mental health services, and community mental health keyworkers who support identification of children and young people with Learning Disability and/or Autism at risk of admission to mental health inpatient units.”…
The new hub will be run by Cambridgeshire County Council.
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