Early Help is a way of working with children and young people. It involves listening to you and your child to find out your child’s needs, and what is working well in your child’s life. An action plan, agreed with you and your child, is also put in place to make sure your child gets the right sort of help. The Early Help Assessment is voluntary – you and your child can choose to be involved.
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How will an Early Help Assessment help my family?
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The Early Help Assessment exists to help you support your child. It can lead to a quick solution or help to identify extra support if needed.
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Early Help will ensure that everyone involved with your child – such as teachers and health visitors – works together to support your child.
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Early Help will help your child receive the right support at an early stage before their needs increase which can be much more difficult to help you with. As The Early Help Assessment is a shared assessment, you and your child will not have to repeat the same story to different workers.
For more information please refer to following resources:
Cumbria Safeguarding Children Partnership (CSCP) Early Help Webpage
Early Help Parents and Carers Leaflet [PDF 5.8MB]
or contact us.
Where a child or young person is identified as having SEN, educational providers should take action to remove those barriers to learning and put effective special educational provision in place. This SEN support should take the form of the assess-plan-do-review cycle through which earlier decisions and actions are revisited, refine and revised with a growing understanding of the pupil's needs and of what supports the pupil in making good progress and securing good outcomes. This is known as the graduated approach. It draws on the more detailed approaches, requires frequent reviewing and more specialist expertise in successive cycles in order to match the interventions to the SEN of the children and young people.