Early Start Ealing

Tell us what you needWe very much welcome ideas about improving services and about providing services locally. So if you have any ideas about what services are needed in your area especially for the age group we cover (0-5) – please get in touch. We also welcome any other feedback you may have.

You can talk to a member of the Early Start Ealing team, your children’s centre contact or the Family Information Service.

Family Information Service020 8825 5588 (Mon-Fri, 9am to 5pm)children@ealing.gov.uk

Your local children’s centre Your Early Start contact

A New Service for Ealing Families

Information sharingTo ensure families receive the best possible service from Early Start Ealing we may need to share information across children’s services in order to access the help and support a family needs. Only professionals involved in delivering this help will have access to personal information and will manage this information in accordance to data protection laws.

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In Ealing, we want to ensure children and families receive the very best services and support to reach their full potential and have the very best start in life. To make sure this happens, we are making changes to the way services work together.

We are forming a new service as of October 2015 called Early Start Ealing. The service will bring together staff from children’s centres, early years and health visiting and other specialist services, offering one point of contact and access to services for families with young children in Ealing.

In their new teams Early Start Ealing staff will be able to work together better, communicate more effectively, be available to families more easily and directly i.e. through children’s centres and other community settings.

The service will be for families – pregnant mums, expectant dads, parents, babies and children up to the age of five. It will focus on health, wellbeing and early learning.

Working together works better

Early Start Ealing aims to:

• Provide families with a clear point of contact and clear communications.

• Work with families and communities to improve health and early learning.

• Support families to keep children safe from harm.

• Support delivery of early help i.e. when a problem first arises.

• Deliver additional services for families in greater need.

• Be flexible to respond to the needs of the family i.e. through home-visiting, and delivery of services locally such as through children’s centres or other community venues.

• Develop family support in partnership with other services where ongoing help is required.

Early Start Ealing teams include:

• Health visitors and health visitor assistants.

• Community nursery nurses.

• Family support and family outreach workers.

• Specialist workers including nurses from the Family Nurse Partnership, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and social workers.

Early Start Ealing teams will continue to work with GPs, midwives, schools, family support services etc.

Leaflet published February 2015