Early Help Sample Clauses
Early Help. Every family can go through difficult or challenging times at some point during their lives. If you are aware of a family that is experiencing problems, they may require support to help them to deal with difficult situations and make things better. Early Help services and support should be offered as soon as a problem or difficulty starts. This is to stop things from getting worse, and to make sure that the family gets the help that they need. The Early Help Assessment Tool (EHAT) is used to find out about the family so that we can understand the difficulties that they may be experiencing. The EHAT is used when a family would like support to help them with a difficulty; when a professional working with a family recognises that they may require extra support; when a family have lots of professionals working with them and services and information needs to be organised to help make things clearer for them; where the needs of the family are unknown or unmet. The EHAT is entirely consent based and the family can decide at any point that they no longer wish to engage with the process. An EHAT is confidential except where there is a risk of serious harm to a child. Early Help means providing support as soon as a problem emerges at any point in a child’s life, from the foundation years through to the teenage years. All school staff should be prepared to identify children who may benefit from Early Help. Early Help means providing support as soon as a problem emerges at any point in a child’s life, from the foundation years through to the teenage years. In the first instance staff should discuss early help requirements with the designated safeguarding lead. Staff may be required to support other agencies and professionals in an early help assessment. Any child may benefit from early help, but all staff should be particularly alert to the potential need for early help for a child who: • Is disabled and has certain health conditions and has specific additional needs • Has special educational needs (whether or not they have a statutory Education, Health and Care Plan) • has a mental health need • Is a young carer • Is showing signs of being drawn in to anti-social or criminal behaviour, including gang involvement and association with organised crime groups or county lines. • Is frequently missing/goes missing from care or from home • Is at risk of modern slavery, trafficking or sexual or criminal exploitation • Is at risk of being radicalised or exploited • Has a fami...
Early Help. Development of family focused early intervention services including school nursing, direct work, integrated approach to language development. Development and commissioning of early years and community based services, including commissioning of children centre services alongside health visiting Family nurse partnership procurement
Early Help. Early Help: is part of a whole system approach and is based on a clear understanding of local need. This will mean that chil dren and their families will experience a high quality and coordinated service that meets their assessed needs. The Partnership’s priority is to ensure that there is clear coordination and quality assurance of early help; with effective integration between the front door with a sha red focus on the journey and experience of the child and family.
Early Help. 2.1. The provider will work in partnership with the local authority to identify children and families requiring additional help and support them through the Early Help process.
2.2. The provider will ensure that staff within their setting/s, are familiar with and/or trained to use and understand local early help and safeguarding processes. Staff must also know how to identify and support families requiring additional help and must be able to work in partnership with other organisations (children’s centres/Family Hubs, schools, and health services, Plymouth City Council) in order to provide support at the earliest opportunity to children and their families.
2.3. When appropriate and in the child and family’s best interest, Providers will encourage and enable their staff to lead and attend early help meetings.
2.4. Providers will ensure that assessment and transition paperwork is of high standard, evidence based, information is accurate and clear and it is submitted in a timely way in order to keep children safe and receive the services they require. Providers are responsible for ensuring the quality of any paperwork submitted is of a high standard.
2.5. Providers to follow the Plymouth Transition Framework. Enhanced Transition
Early Help. Providers must be aware of Early Help and the Early Help Assessment tool. Embedding Early Help is one of the nine priorities for improving Children’s Services in Somerset. The guidance, called "Effective support for children and families in Somerset", contains the thresholds of support and referral for professionals in children’s services. The guidance can be found by visiting: ▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇.▇▇/▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Early Help. Early Help: is part of a whole system approach and is based on a clear understanding of local need. This will mean that children and their families will experience a high quality and coordinated service that meets their assessed needs. The Partnership’s priority is to ensure that there is clear coordination and quality assurance of early help; with effective integration between the front door with a shared focus on the journey and experience of the child and family.