Haringey’s integrated response to support families in need of Early Help
Haringey’s Early Help and Prevention Service are pleased to announce the launch of ‘Prevention Through Partnership’ – a multi-agency collaboration of support services that responds to families at a Tier 2 threshold, under London Safeguarding Children’s Board guidelines. At the heart of this offer, is the objective of helping Schools and Early Years settings draw in services to support the families you work with, by providing a menu of interventions available locally. This offer does not replace or deter from any existing process or offer from the Local Authority to work with families who meet the threshold for a Family Support Worker from the Early Help and Prevention Service. It complements this core offer and is intended to support your settings with building resilience to work together to deliver help at the earliest point and start to build a Team Around the Family that will hopefully reduce the risk of any escalation or need for further services later on.
This work has been steered through the efforts of a working party involving Early Help, Community Safety, CAMHS, Public Health, School Nursing, Police, Department for Work and Pensions, Violence Against Women and Girls coordinator, Insights Drug and Alcohol Service, the Anchor Project, Economic Development, Early Years Advisory Services and relevant services to support early years. The combined expertise of this group has been invaluable and they have each put forward their own unique offer and with that offer, comes the commitment to you to deliver the help you request. Part of the process to develop the menu included stakeholder engagement with a group of Head Teachers of Schools and Children Centres. We listened to their core concerns about the challenges you all face daily to support families in need, against a backdrop of diminishing resources and continuing financial constraints. Above all, we heard that supporting the health and wellbeing of children, their families and staff, were of priority concern and we have responded to this in our final product. This offer will be reviewed on a regular basis to ensure its relevance and accuracy, the next review being due by 31 March 2018.
The Early Help and Prevention Service would like to thank all of you who have been involved to support this work and we look forward to the next opportunity to involve you in an ever growing borough wide Early Help partnership system, supporting families to build resilience in the face of challenges and lead safer lives without the need for involvement of services.
Access Prevention Through Partnership here (external link)