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Early Help for Shropshire Children & Families
Children’s Trust Area Forum
VISION• Provide parents with information, guidance and
support to help them parent their children consistently giving them a safe, happy and valued life experience.
• Promote positive family life - making every member of the family feel valued, safe, trusted and happy.
• Promote family engagement in the community to build a supportive, resilient and safe community.
EARLY HELP STRATEGY• To provide early help to reduce family breakdown
and the need for specialist social work intervention.• To ensure that early help is accessible and
coordinated to families • Systems and Process have minimum bureaucracy• Early Help is not always short term or task centred • Ensure children are protected from significant harm
and our service provision is not process driven
KEY BUSINESS DEVELOPMENTS• Develop a family approach with targeted early help – one
worker one family. • Increase the social work offer to build confidence and support of
lead professionals in identifying and managing risk.• Locality delivery to promote a needs led early help provision
and community engagement – mentors and volunteers.• Develop performance measures that are:
– Outcome focused for the individual child and family member– Impact measures for services to inform best value and
commissioning.
EARLY HELP SOCIAL
WORKERS
FAMILY INFORMATION
SERVICE
EARLY HELP IMPLEMENTATION
PIPPA
COMPASS ADMIN
CERI & KIRSTY
PRIMARY MENTAL HEALTH
PRACTITIONERS
EARLY HELP TARGETED
YOUTH
SAM
LUCIA
KATE
MANUELA
MICHELLE
MEL
CHRIS
SUE
KATE
KAYLEIGH
JESS
YVONNE
SASHA
STAFFORD
ANTHONY
TIM
COMPASS MANAGER
STELLA
VACANCY VACANCY
Call 0345 678 9021•For information and guidance (including support
with the Early Help process and how to access Early Help tools, resources and training)
•To find out if anyone has recorded that they have completed an assessment & provided Early Help to a child/ young person and their family
•To seek consultation (at an Early Help level) with an Early Help Worker or Primary Mental Health Worker
GPService
userProfessional (Universal)
Early Help Star and Plan – Review - Close
Assessment by universal / professional who is already
known by the family
Assessment by a targeted agency
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Early Help Social Work
‘it is important that those working with children, young people and adults have ready
access to social work expertise to discuss concerns and decide
whether a referral to children’s social care is needed’.
Munroe Report May 2011
What will the offer look like
• Will enable, support and guide
• Enable professionals to be confident in their work with families
• Provide agency colleagues with up to date safeguarding knowledge and tool kits
• Not case holding• Not necessarily Lead
Professional• These social workers will
still offer the already established well used telephone consultation through COMPASS, in addition to working closely with our colleagues out in the community
Targeted Youth Support
For young people (11-19) and their families
Helping children have a safe, happy and healthy family life
• Child Sexual Exploitation• Domestic Abuse• Emotional resilience• Homelessness Prevention• Transition• ASD/MLD Young People• Advocacy and Mediation• Substance Misuse• Risk taking behaviours
Sure Start Children’s Centres• Delivery of Children’s Centres is a statutory duty of the local authority
to improve outcomes for families and children from conception to age 5 years
• Children’s Centres are intended to be a ‘one stop shop’ for children under five and their families
• Core purpose includes: parenting support, child development and school readiness, child and family health and life chances
• All the different organisations that offer these services through a children’s centre need to work together to give the best support possible to all children and families. These early childhood services are collectively known as Sure Start Children’s Centres
• Children’s Centre groups, activities and support are all free to access• Children’s Centres cover a broad remit of universal and targeted
services within the community• Early childhood services are subject to Ofsted inspection
For further information please contact:
North Shropshire Children’s Centres:
01691 656513 (Oswestry)
Central Shropshire Children’s Centres:
01743 452400 (Shrewsbury)
South Shropshire Children’s Centres:
01694 723465 (Church Stretton)
www.shropshire.gov.uk/childrenscentres
or visit our display and have a chat