Lifelong Links
Lifelong Links is a service offered in our Children's Services team that helps children and young people who are care experienced find people that care about them and broaden the network of people available to support them through life.
This might be people children know well or people they have not seen for a while like a family member or family friend, former teacher or a carer. It could even be relatives they have not met yet.
It helps children and young people who are care experienced find out more about their family history and build connections with people.
How Does It Work?
A trained co-ordinator will speak to a child or young person and learn about who is important to them. They will then try to find these people and get in contact with them. The co-ordinator works together with the young person to develop a plan for how these connections can provide ongoing support based on that the child or young person's needs and preferences.
The co-ordinator will invite these people to a Family Group Conference to discuss the child or young person's life and their future.
A Family Group Conference is a time for the whole family and wider support network to sit down together and talk about what the child or young person needs, what they want and their hopes for the future.
A plan is worked on together to decide how the group will support the child or young person and how they will all keep in touch.
We will always try our best to find connections with people from a child or young person's past; however this is not always possible. We will always make sure you have the right support in place throughout the process no matter what the outcome.
People working with us can always change their mind so come and have a chat with us and see how we can support.
Watch this video to see what Lifelong Links can do for children and young people
Contact Us
The team are open and approachable and want to chat to you. Contact us if you want some background information or want to start this process with us.
Email lifelonglinks@sefton.gov.uk
Phone Number: 0151 934 2005