This is all in keeping with one of the Core Features of AMBIT, which is Scaffolding existing relationships, though as a young person moves towards moving on, there may be a requirement to build new relationships as well.

Scaffolding the Informal network

A MAINTENANCE PHASE allows for increasing focus on Social-Ecological Work - this is focused on establishing meaningful activity and social bonds that add to the "Social Capital" that an individual can access.

In addition, continued work towards Scaffolding existing relationships (one of the Core Features of AMBIT), invites the young person to continue the work of building their own equivalent of the "team around the worker" - perhaps inviting them to consider this as a form of Self-efficacy, as they increasingly take on the role of a KeyWorker in relation to their own responsibilities for their self. In doing so, they may be encouraged to recognise the need to develop and mainain an active 'back-up' team that can offer accessible support for times when their own capacity for Mentalization is diminished. Although there may be a continuing role for professionals to play a part in that team, FamilyWork and Social-Ecological Work may help to widen the membership of such a network.

By this stage we would expect that their AMBIT KeyWorker will have already demonstrated quite explicitly the kind of appropriate help-seeking behaviour that is promoted, modelling the principle of a Keyworker well connected to wider team in the way that they have used Thinking Together with other team members, etc.

Equally, by engaging a client in voluntary services, or local clubs and groups, this may help that same individual to add to the Social Capital of their neighbourhood - itself a "virtuous circle" in terms of the positive impact such giving has on the self esteem of the giver.

Scaffolding the Professional network

Particularly as the young person heads towards the ENDING PHASE and discharge, it is critical to:

• Define who will be in the young person's network going forwards.
• Check for, and if necessary address, any Dis-integration between parts of the network, using a Dis-integration grid if required.
• Use the appropriate paperwork (for instance CAF [Common Assessment Framework], Child in Need or Safeguarding, or CPA [Care Programme Approach] forms) to ensure that a agencies are aware of each other and who does what.
• Arrange a Multi-agency meeting to bring key players together.