End of year report
All schools will have received an end-of-year report from the Early Help Service, detailing the number of contacts and referrals submitted by schools to Haringey Children and Young People Services, and the numbers which progressed into council services. The Early Help practice lead is available to speak with or visit schools to provide advice and guidance on how to improve the quality of referrals into CYPS. Please contact Cleo.Lawrence@haringey.gov.uk to arrange a visit.
In addition, where families are being supported by the Early Help Service, please can you ensure that discussions have taken place between the school and the EH caseworker prior to submitting a subsequent referral – unless there is an immediate safeguarding concern. This is to enable family needs and their support plans to be reviewed together by involved services, to ensure that where appropriate, families continue to be supported at the most appropriate level.
New head of service
Gareth Morgan, Head of Service for Haringey's Early Help, will be leaving on 13 May after more than three years at Haringey to take up a new position in another authority. Jennifer Sergeant, currently Head of Service for Targeted Response and Youth Justice will become the leader of Early Help and Youth provision. The existing Early Help locality teams, providing invaluable non-statutory family support, the Prevention Through Partnership multi-agency intervention offer, our Link Family Support Worker network and availability for schools in providing case discussions, consultation and setting based workshops, will be unaffected as a result of this change.
Existing contact details for locality team managers and link family support workers are unchanged. Jennifer can be contacted at Jennifer.Sergeant@haringey.gov.uk
Gareth Morgan, Head of Early Help and Prevention 020 8489 4931