Team Around the Child (TAC)

TAC is the Lambeth response to the Government's 'Every Child Matters: Change for Children' agenda.

The aim is for every child or young person, whatever their background or their circumstances, to have the support they need to:

1. Be healthy
2. Stay safe
3. Enjoy and achieve
4. Make a positive contribution
5. Achieve economic well-being

TAC allows professionals to jointly assess needs and provide services for children and young people in a multi-agency manner.

TAC is a model of service delivery that brings a range of agencies together, enabling them to pool resources and professional to prevent a child or young person requiring specialist support in the future.

To ensure services for children and young people are accessible, TAC will be delivered in three planning areas. these are the North, South East and South West localities. Each locality has an area manager working with multi-agency teams (made up from staff across the partnership). The professionals will provide individual support to meet the requirements of children with additional needs.