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Routes to get help:

  • Refer to the Early Help Thresholds document and the family needs.
  • If you need to refer to targeted Early Help or Children’s Social Care, please fill in the CSCT referral form. It helps us understand the situation and connect you with the right support. You can read more on how to do this here.
  • If you are part of a Team Around the Family (TAF), we offer resources to help different professionals work together (you can read about these here: Guide to Chairing a TAF Meeting). 

A Structured Approach to Early Help 

This way of working supports multi-agency teams to take effective actions that bring about and keep changes, leading to positive outcomes for the family. Here are the basic steps to provide Early Help at any level.

If a child or young person requires additional help from multiple different services or organisations, then the Team Around the Family (TAF) approach is implemented. 

Our Family Journey Process 

The image of Our Family Journey shows the process to follow from identifying needs to the outcome. The image shows a diagram with different steps written in circle bubble with arrows between the steps to show which order they come in. The first step is to identify needs, then to understand needs, then to plan, then to action, then to reflect and review. The diagram shows three outcomes. Outcome 1: continue cycle as needed, starting again with understanding need and following the steps again. Outcome 2: monitor if closed. Outcome 3: transferred or escalated to another service.

 

Use this guide (Guide to chairing a TAF meeting) for more information about how to run a TAF meeting. 


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