Inspiring childhood

Independant Child and Adolescent Mental Health and Court Assessment Services for 'Looked After Children'

What's in this section?

The range of services provided by 'Inspiring Childhood'

Court Assessments

Comprehensive independent expert witness assessments for the purposes of informing and/or assisting Local Authorities and the Courts in 'care proceedings'.

Clinical Services

Assessments of mental health status of Child/family/carer's and treatments.

Consultation/Therapeutic Foster Care

Consultation to social services and professional bodies. Individual and group interventions aimed at enhancing therapeutic skills of foster carer's

Quality of assessments

Details of the quality of our assessments

About us

'Inspiring Childhood' is a unique development providing a comprehensive range of clinical and local authority/court assessment services for 'looked after children' and their families/carer's.

We can provide direct interventions to children and families e.g. individual psychotherapy or family therapy.

All members of the staff working for team are clinicians with over 20 years experience (including current employment) of working with children and families with mental health problems within the NHS, in private practice and as independent expert witnesses.

We have training, expertise and experience on a consultation level in Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy, Family Therapy and Clinical Psychology, and access to our consultant colleagues' expertise in other fields of clinical practice such as child and adolescent psychiatry. We have research credentials to doctoral levels, as well as published work in relevant professional publications. We regularly teach and consult to professional groups within the NHS, Social Services departments and Educational departments. We are 'Heads of Services' within the NHS and have a role of a clinical director of the therapeutic community for very young children in care of the local authorities. We are registered with the relevant UK professional authorities that regulate our professional conduct.

Our Location

'Inspiring Childhood' is conveniently based in East London, close to South Woodford, on the Central line underground station and is therefore easily accessible from a variety of directions. The services are also offered at locations convenient to Local Authorities.