Looked after Children

The service is an integrated mental health service for Looked After Children (LAC) or Children Looked After (CLA). In Coventry our service is called 'Rise CLA (MH) Team Coventry' and in Warwickshire it is called 'Warwickshire CLA Team'.

RISE CLA (MH) Team Coventry Information Leaflet.pdf [pdf] 9MB

What we do

The ethos of the service is that mental health is 'everyone's business'. Therefore, the focus is on supporting social workers and carers to improve the young person's mental health and wellbeing, as well as undertaking specialist assessment and intervention where required.

Key features include:

  • Consultations to social workers and other professionals to ensure that the needs of children/young people are understood within the context of their lived experience

  • Assessments – These include carers, emotional wellbeing assessments and Initial Mental Health assessments.

  • Delivery of therapeutic interventions with the child/young person following an assessment where a targeted or specialist response is required

  • Consultation and training for residential staff that draws on attachment theory

  • Nurturing Attachment Training for foster carers

  • Foster carer drop-in sessions to support placement stability (Coventry only)

  • Telephone advice and guidance for carers and professionals

  • Support to social workers when they are working therapeutically with young people