Early Help

Sometimes families need extra support, and you may hear about ‘Early Help’ in meetings with our staff. Early Help means getting additional, timely, and practical support for children, young people, and families who need it as early as possible. It aims to enable children to flourish and to prevent costly, long-term and adverse outcomes.

We will consider starting an early help assessment if we cannot resolve the young person’s worries and issues within the full range of universal provision and where our assessment shows that we need to get additional external support to help families. We will always complete an Early Help Assessment and Plan with the full consent of parents and carers.

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