Our Children's Services teams

Our approach to children’s social care is driven by our commitment to ensuring that children and families can access the right services at the right time to meet their needs.

We provide a range of support, from robust early interventions to intensive statutory assistance, all designed to enhance children’s lives through effective services. To achieve this, we'll:

  • demonstrate strong leadership
  • challenge performance standards
  • foster a culture of continuous reflection and improvement.

While we're proud of our “good” rating from Ofsted, we aim to build on this success with the help of our dedicated staff, strong leadership team, and collaborative partnerships.

We use the Signs of Safety framework as our social work practice model and have tailored our forms in consultation with our staff to ensure they effectively support families and children.

Find out more about our teams

Our heads of service

First Response and Family Solutions

  • Single Point of Access and Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH)
  • Assessment
  • Family Solutions
  • Early Help Transformation team.

Children’s Social Work Teams

  • Children’s Social Work and Adolescent team
  • 0 to 25 Disability team.

Corporate Parenting

  • Children in Care
  • Care Leavers
  • Medway Virtual School.

Provider services

  • Fostering
  • Multi-Disciplinary team
  • Youth Service
  • Parklands
  • Adoption (RAA).

Safeguarding and Quality Assurance

  • Practice Development Service
  • LADO Team
  • IRO Team
  • CP Conferencing Chair team.

Children's Services Commissioning

  • Access to Resources
  • Children’s Commissioning including SEND (special educational needs and disabilities) and Education
  • Quality Assurance
  • Residential Provision (Eden House and Aut Even)
  • Strategic Panels, Processes, and Business Management
  • Learning Disabilities and Autism.