EARLY HELP IMPACT ANALYSIS DECEMBER 2015 The Early Help Strategy 2014-17 in Northumberland was signed off and endorsed by the Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) and the Families and Children Trust (FACT) Board in July 2014. It was subsequently reviewed in July 2015 and the action plan updated. The strategy contains a number of aspects which have been progressed. Early Help Assessments In January 2014 work had been undertaken through the Early Help Early Intervention sub-committee for the LSCB to rebrand and redevelop the Common Assessment Framework form. This was done by a small multi-agency task and finish group led by the Senior Manager for Early Intervention and Prevention and resulted in a launch of the whole family based Early Help Assessment. Northumberland’s approach to the use of the Early Help Assessment is through a multi-agency sign up to it as the assessment tool for those families who require early help. The launch of this was supported by four locality based events for multi-agency professionals attended in total by over 300 people. 31 multi-agency staff were trained to train others in using the Early Help Assessment. An update training session was undertaken with these staff in March 2015 linking the Supporting Families (Troubled Families) Local Outcomes Plan to the Early Help Assessment planning process. have been 521 people trained in EHA from 1st April 2014 to present day. Services which have received the EHA training are: All Locality Inclusion Support (education support services)* All school partnerships Community Support Team Family Nurse Team All children’s centre including family support workers within Children’s Centres* Some minders Health visitors Midwives Children North East (family support)* YOS ( Intensive Family support workers)* Family Recovery Programme (Intensive family support workers)* Visual Impairment Service* Sensory Support Service* Portage* (Services starred are those which are internally delivered or directly commissioned by Northumberland County Council) There have been 954 Early Help Assessments registered with the database between October 2014 and November 2015. These are broken down by Agency as below:
EARLY HELP IMPACT ANALYSIS DECEMBER 2015 The Early Help Strategy 2014-17 in Northumberland was signed off and endorsed by the Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) and the Families and Children Trust (FACT) Board in July 2014. It was subsequently reviewed in July 2015 and the action plan updated. The strategy contains a number of aspects which have been progressed. Early Help Assessments In January 2014 work had been undertaken through the Early Help Early Intervention sub-committee for the LSCB to rebrand and redevelop the Common Assessment Framework form. This was done by a small multi-agency task and finish group led by the Senior Manager for Early Intervention and Prevention and resulted in a launch of the whole family based Early Help Assessment. Northumberland’s approach to the use of the Early Help Assessment is through a multi-agency sign up to it as the assessment tool for those families who require early help. The launch of this was supported by four locality based events for multi-agency professionals attended in total by over 300 people. 31 multi-agency staff were trained to train others in using the Early Help Assessment. An update training session was undertaken with these staff in March 2015 linking the Supporting Families (Troubled Families) Local Outcomes Plan to the Early Help Assessment planning process. have been 521 people trained in EHA from 1st April 2014 to present day. Services which have received the EHA training are: All Locality Inclusion Support (education support services)* All school partnerships Community Support Team Family Nurse Team All children’s centre including family support workers within Children’s Centres* Some minders Health visitors Midwives Children North East (family support)* YOS ( Intensive Family support workers)* Family Recovery Programme (Intensive family support workers)* Visual Impairment Service* Sensory Support Service* Portage* (Services starred are those which are internally delivered or directly commissioned by Northumberland County Council) There have been 954 Early Help Assessments registered with the database between October 2014 and November 2015. These are broken down by Agency as below: