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Welcome
Introduction to
Early Help Offer and
Assessment
Aims of the Session
Introduce partner agencies to:
• Walsall Early Help Offer
• Issues of Consent
• Early Help Assessment
• Early Help outcomes
• Support available
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Why are we here?
“Victoria had the most beautiful smilethat lit up the room”
Victoria Climbié died on February 25th, 2000, aged eight years
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Baby Peter1.3.06 – 3.8.07
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Walsall Early Help and Whole System Approach
Levels of Vulnerability
• What makes a child or young person vulnerable?
Use post-it notes to record scenarios
• At what level would you put each vulnerability?
Place at the appropriate level
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Early Help and Assessment
Why do we use the Early Help Approach?
• To promote a consistent approach for children,young people and families, preventingduplication
• A framework to allow integrated working andearly intervention
• Shared responsibility across all agencies
• Understand and appreciate each other’s roles
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Case Consultation
Consultation
Support offered from Screening Team
• Advice & guidance
• Access route for referrals: social work or early help (referral = name, dob etc)
• Access route to local Area Coordinator for support (referral = name, dob etc)
• 24 hour ‘window’
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Referral
• Personal details
• Wider family – inc siblings
• Detailed involvement
• Do not pre-set a meeting date
• Is there consent to proceed?
Support offered from Early Help Coordinators
• Advice, guidance and support for meetings
• Completion of Early Help assessment
• As above re: services and access to Family Support Panel
• Support with review process
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Consent
Parental Responsibility (PR)
• The duties, obligations and rights of a
parent
• Mum = automatic
• Dad is married to Mum = automatic
• Unmarried but sign the birth cert’ = PR
• No sign = no PR
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Fraser Competence
Consent
Should be sought from those who holdparental responsibility
or
From the child/young person if appropriate
also ……
Consent can be disposed in certain situations ………..
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Early Help Assessment
DOMAINS
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• A local unified method of assessment tosupport earlier intervention
• Improve joint working and communication –using a common language
• Improve the co-ordination and consistency of assessments – Ofsted
Inspection
Walsall Early Help Assessment: Aims
• Inform whether further, specialist,assessment is needed
• Provide a picture of needs built up over aperiod of time
• With consent; shared between professionalsas a working document
• Provide better, evidence based, referrals
Early Help Assessment:Aims
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Lead Professional
Lead Professional The lead professional is not a job title or a newrole; set of functions to be carried out as part ofthe delivery of effective integrated support.
– Act as a single point of contact
– Be supported by Area Coordinator
– Co-ordinate the delivery of the actions agreed by the practitioners involved, based on the outcome of the assessment and recorded in a plan.
– Reduce overlap and inconsistency.
– Not responsible or accountable for services delivered by other agencies.
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ELECTRONIC DIRECTORY OF
SERVICES
www.mywalsall.org
www.mywalsall.org
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CONTACT THE TEAM
IRS Screening Team
01922 658170Duty Area Co-ordinator
Further Training?
01922 - 655670