Multi-Agency Step Up, Step Down Protocol
This protocol describes the application of Step-Up and Step-Down mechanisms across Somerset to ensure a seamless journey for children, young people and their families across all services. It also describes processes where services may Step-In to families’ lives as their needs change.
Good practice requires all practitioners working with children, young people and their families to be familiar with these approaches so that children do not fall between services when there is a reduced or increased need. Instead, children are held safely in the transition from one service to another. Those agencies involved should maintain and promote a strengths-based approach to working with families to help them identify solutions to the challenges they face.
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