Our Psychological Hub brings together a range of specialist support services under one psychology-led leadership team.
We are ambitious for the children and families we support and want to provide the best possible service. This page explains the services available in the Psychological Hub and how social workers and professionals can make referrals.
Our vision
We enhance psychological thinking and practice through effective support. We build collaboration and confidence across teams and within our work with children and families, fostering a culture of trust, reflection, and shared understanding.
The services
There are 2 areas of support:
Restore
Offering psychologically informed support and interventions for children and families. Restore has 4 services:
- Solutions - support to restore family relationships to prevent children from entering care or enable children to return home from care when this is part of the child’s plan
- Horizon Intervention - support for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) who are experiencing emotionally based school avoidance (EBSA)
- Horizon Suicide Prevention - restoring hope into professional networks who support children experiencing suicidality, self-harm or mental health conditions
- Consultation, Assessment and Treatment Service (CATS) - supports children and young people up to the age of 18 years who have engaged in, or are alleged to have engaged in, harmful sexual behaviour (HSB)
Attach
Support and interventions into our services for children in care and care leavers, unaccompanied asylum-seeking children and young people, special guardianship and kinship families. Attach has one service:
- Attach - helping children and young people to strengthen relationships with their carers and to grow trust
Making a referral to the Psychological Hub
The child or young person’s social worker or lead practitioner can refer to us through our shared computer system (Mosaic). There is a referral pathway for Restore and a separate one for Attach.
Education settings can refer a child or young person to the Multi-Agency Mental Health and Education Triage (MAMHET).