Providing Early Help

Using the Early Help Assessment to Identify Support and Services

March 14, 2025 - Providing Early Help This chapter provides a guide for practitioners and managers, in every agency, who work, or come into contact with children, young people and their families where there may be low level or emerging needs. The Early Help Assessment Guidance and Assessment Tools for use by...

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Safeguarding Children and Young people against Radicalisation and Violent Extremism

March 14, 2025 - This chapter contains information on Government strategies to prevent terrorism and violent extremism. It also covers the indicators which can make children and young people vulnerable to radicalisation and violent extremism and explains the different responses available when practitioners have...

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Local Keywords

Early Help Assessment

May 10, 2024 - Local Keywords The Early Help Assessment is an inter-agency assessment. It offers a basis for early identification of children's additional needs, the sharing of this information between organisations and the coordination of service provision. Early help assessments should identify what help the...

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Children with Perplexing Presentations (PP) in whom Illness is Fabricated or Induced (FII)

May 10, 2024 - ... disorder or psychosocial difficulties. , An Early Help Assessment is an assessment tool that engages the family to identify the emerging needs of children and young people and to plan and coordinate appropriate support. Some families have participated in an Early Help Assessment by the time...

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Local Contacts

Children's Social Care and Local Authority Early Help Services

September 9, 2024 - ... 256990Email: VCM-IDCS@derby.gov.uk Early Help Advisors can be contacted via their locality based Single Point of Access Clerks as noted above. Derbyshire Starting Point Consultation and Advice Service for Professionals. Tel: 01629 535353 Room 274, North BlockCounty...

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Child Abuse Linked to Faith or Beliefs

May 10, 2024 - ... Children’s Social Care who will assess; an Early Help intervention may be appropriate for work with the families and the communities concerned to build resilience and reduce their vulnerability to influence by Faith Leaders who promote this type of abuse. Children who may be at risk...

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Domestic Abuse

October 24, 2025 - ... about risk. Some children may benefit from an early help assessment to address any emerging needs and co-ordinate support from a range of early help services. Also see Section 5: Assessment of child’s needs section. If the school/college becomes concerned about what a child tells them...

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Abuse of Disabled Children

May 10, 2024 - ... disabled children with low level needs the Early Help Assessment may be used by any agency as a means of working with the child, family and other service providers to identify and meet emerging needs which could enable the child to achieve a satisfactory level of health and/or...

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Working with Learning Disabled Parents

October 24, 2025 - ... support and co-ordinated services through an Early Help Assessment. See Providing Early Help Procedure. Whilst there must be focus on the needs and wellbeing of children, it should be recognised that parents/carers with learning disabilities should have their needs appropriately...

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