Children & Families, Criminal Justice

Simon Bokor-Ingram, Chief Officer, Health & Social Care Moray (MIJB) 

Tracy Stephen, Head of Service & Chief Social Work Officer

Criminal Justice

• Statutory SW service to courts
• Court reports 
• Diversion
• Bail Supervision
• Structured Deferred Sentence
• Voluntary and Statutory Through Care
• Multi Agency Public Protection Arrangement (MAPPA)
• Drug Treatment and Testing Order (DTTO)
• Moving Forward Making Changes (MFMC) group work programme
• Supervision of Community Payback Orders including supervision requirements and unpaid work
• Court support

Oohs SW

• Dealing with out of hours social work queries
• Appropriate Adult duties
• Mental Health Detentions
• Child Protection Duties

Youth Justice

• Service to young people under 18 who have offended or on the cusp of offending
• Early and Effective Intervention (EEI)

Community Justice

• Community Justice Strategy for Moray
• Community Justice Outcome and Improvement Plan

Area Team: Provision of targeted support for families in Moray:

• Multi-agency Assessment of need and risk for children and their families
• Planning with families the provision of resources and support to meet with families the provision of resources and support to meet identifies outcomes
• Support for looked after and care experienced children and young people and their families
• Completion of statutory reports on request from the Children's Reporter and Sheriff Court

Access Team Entry point for referrals / requests for support for children and families in Moray. 

• Direct contact with the public and other agencies in response to request for support and assistance
• Multi-agency initial assessment of need and risk for children and their families
• Initial planning with families the provision of support to meet critical need
• Joint working with Police to undertake child protection enquiries and investigations

Cala: Residential care for looked after children and young people

Placement Services

• Recruitment, retention training and supervision of carers in the Registered services for (i) fostering
  (ii) adoption and (iii) supported lodgings for care leavers
• Provision of a statutory through care and after care service for care experienced young people
  Statutory pathways assessments and support
• Continuing care service for care experienced young people.
  Statutory welfare assessment and support
• Kinship care –
  provision of assessments, training, support and approval processed for formal kinship carers

Commissioning for key services within Moray of services for children and their families

Procurement of and contacting with a range of service providers both within and out with Moray for the provision of services to meet need at a preventative early engagement level through to specific and targeted provision of care/ community resource including advocacy services

Contract management and monitoring of contracted services

Engagement with SXL frameworks