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

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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