Early Help Service update

Dear Families and Carers

I wanted to write to you about the services we provide in light of the current and fast moving situation around the coronavirus.

In line with government advice we will stop delivering our normal offer from Children and Family Centres and Youth Centres from 23 March 2020 until further notice. This will include stopping the provision of all groups and events for children, young people and families.

We will be keeping 9 centres open across West Sussex however; these will now act as support centres offering crisis payments and to distribute food parcels and some health clinics by appointment.

The list of these centres is as follows:

Adur and Worthing – Durrington, Kingston Buci and Lancing CFCs
Arun – Treehouse CFCs
Chichester – Chichester CFC
Crawley – Bewbush CFC
Horsham – Storrington CFC and Hurst Road Youth Centre
Mid Sussex - Park Youth Centre

You can find address and contact information for the Children and Family Centres shown above here.

As this is a fast moving situation, we will continue to keep you updated as to the situation regarding the services we provide. If you do have any urgent questions please email family.info.service@westsussex.gov.uk or you can contact the Family Information Service by calling 01243 777807. I’m sure you will appreciate our teams are incredibly busy and we will get back to you at the earliest opportunity.

Best wishes
Claire Hayes
Assistant Director for Early Help