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The
only number you need
Whether you think a parent or family needs some
support, or you are worried a child might be at risk of abuse or neglect, there
is only one number you need – 0345 6789 021.
From this number you will receive the support you need to get the right help at
the right time to strengthen families and safeguard children.
Are you new to Early
Help and would like to know more about how Early Help works in Shropshire?
Whether you are in
a school, an early years setting, in health, social care or the voluntary
sector, if your work involves children and their families, the new Early Help
training will support you to see the benefits of partnership working and early
help.
Early help covers a
wide range of universal and targeted services, with workers in a position to
identify and support families and children who may be experiencing some low
level challenges and who would benefit from some support. The purpose of early
help is to improve the life chances of children and families and benefit the
wider community, whilst being innovative and cost-effective.
In Shropshire, early
help focuses on from conception to early adulthood, because early help is not
just about the early years but also about preventing adolescents and young
adults from developing problems. We want every family to develop a cycle of
positive parenting, relationships and behaviour. Early help is about taking
action as soon as possible to tackle problems for children and families before
they become more difficult to reverse.
Early help also
focuses on enhancing the capabilities of every parent to provide a supportive
and enriching environment for their children.
Research* shows
that effective early help can improve outcomes for children in a number of
areas. These include:
- improved school attendance
- reduced short-term school exclusions
- reduced inappropriate sexualised
behaviour
- reduced isolation
- improved presentation
- immunisations being up to date where
they had been absent previously
- improved progress in meeting
developmental milestones
- academic improvements
- improved housing and home conditions
- care arrangements stabilising
- improved speech and language
New Early Help
training modules have been developed and include:
- The Role of the Lead Professional
- Capturing the Voice of the Child and
Family
- Assessment and Analysis Skills
- SMART Action Planning
- Information Sharing and Consent
These sessions are
a half day and are open to delegates from a wide range of organisations,
allowing for multi-agency discussion and learning to take place.
Full details on any
of the above training modules and ECINS training sessions can be viewed from
the SSCB Multi-agency Safeguarding Training Schedule via the link from the Shropshire
Safeguarding Shropshire’s Children Board (SSCB) webpage SSCB website. All learners will need to REGISTER and
then APPLY for training from the appropriate link from this webpage.
* Early help: whose
responsibility? Ofsted March 2015
SSCB NSPCC GRADED CARE PROFILE 2 BRIEFING SESSIONS
These one-hour briefing sessions have been set
up for first line Managers who supervise and Senior Managers and Strategic
Leads to help understand how the evidence based and nationally evaluated
assessment tool will be used in practice throughout Shropshire’s safeguarding
system.
Managers of Social
Workers, Early Help practitioners, CAFCASS (children’s guardians), Teachers
& Pastoral Support staff within schools, Family Support Workers (schools
and nurseries), Education Welfare Officers or equivalent; Health Visitors,
School Nurses and other healthcare staff, adult Substance Misuse practitioners,
young person Substance Misuse practitioners, Mental Health workers, Housing
Officers, YOS should all attend these briefings.
Briefing sessions
available on:
- Monday 13th February– 9.30am
to 10.30am – Shirehall, Shrewsbury
- Thursday 16th February–
9.30am to 10.30am – Hope House, Morda, Nr Owestry
- Monday 13th March – 9.30am
to 10.30am – Rockspring Community Centre, Ludlow
- Monday 27th March– 9.30am to
10.30am – Shirehall, Shrewsbury
Further information
on the Managers’ Briefing Sessions and the full NSPCC GCP2 training for
practitioners is available in the SSCB Multi-agency safeguarding Training
Schedule, which can be viewed on the SSCB Safeguarding Training webpage. Learners must Register and Apply for the
Briefings and Full Course via the link on the SSCB Website
SSCB Multi-agency
Training Team sscbtraining@shropshire.gov.uk
01743 254370
Consulting with a Targeted Early Help service about a
family
If you have assessed a family and young person’s needs and
wish to check with the identified Targeted Early Help service that their remit
meets the needs you’ve identified, please contact the service lead. The members
of staff to consult with are:-
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Enhance Sue Green EnHance Senior
Keyworker Telephone number: 07791876599 or Maria Evans EnHance
Senior Keyworker Telephone number: 0758427878
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Targeted Youth Support Jo Cox Telephone
number: 01743 250948
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Lifelines Jo Cox Telephone number: 01743
250948
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Children’s Centres North Alex
Morris-Perkins Telephone number: 01691 656513
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Children’s Centres Central Louise Carter
Hayes or Steph Pickles Telephone number: 01743 452400
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Children’s Centres South Annie
Mackellar Telephone number: 01588 673873
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Parenting Practitioners Karen Ladd
Telephone number: 01743 250991
Further information about the process for Requesting a
Targeted Early Help Service, can be found on the Early
help website
Use of ECINS for requests for intervention from Targeted
Early Help services from 1st January 2017
ECINS was developed and introduced through consultation with
practitioners, and is a tool to help improve communication and information sharing
between agencies and for ensuring that families are supported by the most
appropriate service at the right time. From the 1st January 2017,
those practitioners who are registered to use ECINS and have undertaken
training must now be using the system to record case information, and to make a
Request for Intervention. There is supporting information, manuals and guides
on the Early
help website
Use of ECINS for requests for intervention from Targeted
Early Help services from 1st April 2017
From 1st April 2017, all requests for
intervention for targeted early help (excluding CAMHS) must be done through
ECINS. If your organisation needs to sign up to ECINS the paperwork is on the Early
Help Website for further information please contact ShropshireStrengtheningFamilies@shropshire.gov.uk
Free Training
for Practitioners of Positive Approaches to Autism Spectrum Conditions
Autism West Midlands have organised another of their
popular training sessions for practitioners on positive approaches to autism.
The training includes:-
- Autism as a spectrum
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How autism is diagnosed
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Supporting parents of children on the spectrum
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Strategies to use with children and young people
The training will be held on Wednesday 15th
March 2017 from 9:30am to 1pm at The Lantern, Meadow Farm Drive, Sundorne, Shrewsbury,
SY1 4NG. Refreshments not provided but available to purchase from the coffee
shop on site.
To book online please visit the Autism West Midlands
Website
For further information please email: Shropshire@autismwestmidlands.org.uk
or call us on: 01743 250962
SEND
Local Offer – Growth and Development
We are pleased to announce our SEND
Local Offer has changed. We are in a position where we can make some exciting
changes to the way the SEND Local Offer works.
What does this mean for you?
While the content will remain much the
same, however the web address has changed and it looks different. We have a
landing page that has three distinct areas Parent Carers, Young People, and
Practitioners. Each area is then be broken down further to make it easy to find
the relevant information.
The three key features remain the
same:
- Events
Calendar – also accessing the Shropshire Council calendar.
- Service
Directory – linking with the FIS directory bringing universal and specialist
services together with improved search features.
- Information
Pages –will have improved navigation for ease of use.
We are excited that this change has
brought us an opportunity to take your feedback and comments alongside data
gathered from multiple sources to make some significant improvements to the
website. The existing web links will continue to work with a redirect for a
short while longer while we transition between the old and new service.
Email: local.offer@shropshire.gov.uk
Share the
news
Please feel free to forward this newsletter onto your colleagues. If
they want to get this newsletter direct to their inbox, they can sign up here http://new.shropshire.gov.uk/early-help/practitioners/news/
REMINDER -
Getting communication right
Good communication is important to us and we'd welcome your
comments and feedback on what works for you. Do you like frequency, length and
content of the Early Help newsletters? What do you think of the new Early Help
Website? What else could we try to get messages out to you? If you want to
share your thoughts then please email kate.bentham@shropshire.gov.uk
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