Implementation of TAC

The Team around the Child will align all resources and services that are being provided to contribute to preventative work, to enable Children and Young people with additional needs to be supported in a holistic way by multi-agency teams, across three planning areas, North, South East and South West (see TAC area map).

Each TAC will be individual and specific to that young person, deployed by an area manager and supported by a multi-agency team of lead professionals, who are utilising CAF and information sharing arrangements to determine what services should make up the TAC for a young person and their family.

Such an approach will have the following benefits for the partnership:

• integration of services and processes
• utilisation of strategic commissioning
• reduction of duplication
• improvement of service delivery for Children and Young People and their families
• improvement on outcomes for children and young people (CYP) with additional needs, by acting in a more preventative way to reduce the numbers of those who will become LAC, placed on the Child Protection Register or have to live outside of their communities.
• reduction in the numbers of CYP who require specialist services.