Bury Children's Services are required under the Children Act 1989 to provide a service to help families with "children in need" in their area. Children in need are those with a disability and children whose health and welfare may suffer significantly without support from children's social care services. Most parents will at times experience problems in their lives. Sometimes these difficulties can be overwhelming and parents need all the support they can get. Occasionally children's social care need to become involved to protect children from harm.
If you need help, regarding children's social care services then the following pages will tell you where and how to get it, along with details of the services provided.
How to ask for help
If you feel that children's social care services can help, and you do not already have a social worker working with you, please contact our children's advice and assessment team.
When you contact the advice and assessment team, explain why you need help. Staff will then tell you how we can help. Where you need other services, they will put you in touch with them.
You can also make a referral to the team via the Council's on line forms within the category Health and Social Care under the heading Social Services.
Outside of office hours emergency help is only available from the emergency duty team on 0161 253 6606.
Education welfare services pages provide information on roles of the service, contact details, juvenile employment and teenage pregnancy.
Family services directory/community contacts allows users to search and find contact details of family services in the Bury area.
Children's Trust is a multi-agency partnership of organisations concerned with the welfare of children and young people.
