Special Report on Early Help

• Children's Services | Early help | Preventing Care Proceedings

With the Care Review finding a system increasingly geared...

Scheme trains parents to boost literacy skills of disadvantaged children

• Early Years | Early years education | Families/Parenting | Early help

National Literacy Trust supports parents and under-fives to...

Council redesigns care pathway to boost SLC support

• Early Years | Early years education | Families/Parenting | Early help

Nottingham City Council aims to boost social mobility by...

Adverse Childhood Experiences: Special Report

• Children's Services | Early help | Health | Mental health | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Mental Health | Attachment & Neglect | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation | Preventing Care Proceedings

Research has shown that adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)...

Interview: Judith Blake

• Children's Services | Early help | Children's rights | Information sharing

The chair of the LGA’s children and young people board...

Children’s services inspection

• Children's Services | Information sharing | Families/Parenting | Early help | Children's rights | Management | Ofsted

Ofsted says the children’s services inspection regime is...

Shared Services: Special Report

• Children's Services | Early help | Information sharing | Management | Commissioning | Leadership | Service configuration | Social Care | Residential and specialist care | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection

Fresh evidence suggests collaboration is helping local...

Early Help: Special Report

• Early help | Social Care | Homelessness | Leaving care | Youth Justice | Youth Work | Preventing Care Proceedings

Amid rising knife crime, youth homelessness and care...

Early Help: Policy context

• Early help

The Early Intervention Foundation (EIF) defines early...

Early Help: Policy context

• Early help

The Early Intervention Foundation (EIF) defines early...

Early help - Children's Workforce Qualifications and Training Guide

• Courses and training | Early help

Making the case for intervening earlier

• Early help

Building on the impact of the Troubled Families programme...

The future of early intervention: roundtable debate

• Early help | Preventing Care Proceedings

Children's services leaders discussed how local authorities...

Restructuring children's services on early intervention approach

• Early help | Preventing Care Proceedings

EIF blueprint for the future of early help recommends better...

Special Report: Early Help

• Early help | Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

Council early help services are changing. With budgets...

Early Help: Policy context

• Early help | Families/Parenting

Amid rising demand for child protection services over the...

Helping Birmingham Families Early: The 'Signs of Safety and Wellbeing' Practice Framework

• Early help | Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

The authors discuss the Signs of Safety and Wellbeing...

Leadership: Scaling up interventions

• Early help | Leadership | Service configuration | Preventing Care Proceedings

Once the value of an innovative intervention for children...

Early help's new protagonist: Jo Casebourne, chief executive, the Early Intervention Foundation

• Early help | Interview | Preventing Care Proceedings

Derren Hayes speaks to Jo Casebourne, chief executive, the...

Special Report: Social Work With Children and Families

• Early help | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Preventing Care Proceedings

Social workers are among the most important people in the...

Relationships in the early years

• Early years education | Early help | Families/Parenting | Attachment & Neglect

Advice on commissioning evidence-based parenting...

The policy context on Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation

• Children's Services | Children's rights | Early help | Information sharing | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation

The Department for Education leads on child protection in...

The policy context on Attachment and Neglect

• Early Years | Health | Mental health | Young parents | Children's Services | Early help | Families/Parenting | Information sharing | Management | Leadership | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Fostering and adoption | Safeguarding and child protection | Attachment & Neglect

In recent years there has been a growing recognition of the...

Key steps that will improve play services for disabled children

• Health | Disabled children and young people | Children's Services | Children's rights | Early help | Families/Parenting | Information sharing | Management | Leadership | Service configuration | Social Care | Play

A charity has devised a blueprint for improved access to...

Tackling Child Sexual Abuse: A Professional Debate

• Children's Services | Early help | Management | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection

The national spotlight remains fixed on child sexual abuse...

Front of Mind

• Health | Early help | Service configuration | Mental Health

Increased political profile and a new care framework offer a...

Early intervention leaders' debate

• Early Years | Education | Health | Children's Services | Early help | Management | Leadership | Social Care | Youth Justice | Youth Work

Children's services leaders from councils across England...

Reorganisation enhances Westminster early help support

• Children's Services | Early help | Attachment & Neglect | Preventing Care Proceedings

Inner London council turns children’s centres into family...

Intensive support scheme diverts Manchester young people at risk from gangs

• Children's Services | Early help | Youth Justice | Crime prevention

Practitioners use relational and trauma-informed practice...

Warwickshire County Council: Local Spotlight

• Children's Services | Information sharing | Early help | Management | Leadership | Service configuration

Midlands authority has invested in the children’s workforce...

Bi-borough develops joint system for SEND services

• Children's Services | Special Educational Needs | Early help

Westminster and Kensington and Chelsea councils collaborate...

Early support for teenagers struggling in education

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Future Talent delivers early support for young people...

Multi-agency service reduces need for care in Manchester

• Early help | Preventing Care Proceedings

A jointly-commissioned, multi-agency, early intervention...

Early help culture pays dividends in Lincolnshire

• Early help | Preventing Care Proceedings

Early help strategy cuts across all services for children...

Coventry partnership takes action to tackle problems early

• Early help | Preventing Care Proceedings

Ignite supports some of Coventry's most vulnerable families...

Early Help Profiling System

• Early help | Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection

Uses advanced analytics to identify families at risk and...

Sandwell Family Partners

• Early help | Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

Practitioners identify issues vulnerable families may face...

School-Home Support

• Education | Early help | Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

Practitioners work with families to address the root causes...

Shine, Hudson Children's Centre

• Early help | Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

Children's centre develops 10-week programme for new mums...

Juvenile Firesetters Intervention Scheme

• Early help | Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

Targeted, individually-tailored one-to-one programme aims to...

How group support helps families stay together

• Early help | Families/Parenting | Social Care

Family group conferencing is enabling family members to come...

Youth Work and Youth Services: Practice example - Youth Moves, Bristol

• Early help | Youth Work | Youth services

Parents on the Ball

• Young parents | Children's Services | Early help | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Attachment & Neglect

Programme revolving around local football clubs to boost...

How intervention reduces self-harm

• Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Early help

Project helps young people recover from self-harm and...

Ask the Experts: Accessing mental health funding

• Early Years | Health | Mental health | Sexual health | Children's Services | Children's rights | Early help | Information sharing | Management | Leadership | Service configuration | Youth Work

Our panel offers advice on mental health services funding,...

Behind the Inspection Rating: Structure change drives progress

• Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Early help | Families/Parenting | Information sharing | Management | Service configuration | Ofsted | Social Care

Kingston upon Thames Council - children's services...

Ask the Experts: Growing food, media stories of abuse, learning from mistakes and youth centre help for Eastern European children

• Early Years | Early years education | Nurseries | Play | Education | Children's Services | Children's rights | Early help | Information sharing | Management | Leadership | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Youth Work

Our panel offers advice on growing vegetables, telling...

How relationships course for pupils helps promote healthy relationships

• Education | Safeguarding in education | Extra-curricular | Early help | Families/Parenting | Safeguarding and child protection | PSHE Education

Course raises awareness of domestic abuse among older...

How streamlined diagnosis is slashing ADHD delays in Doncaster

• Health | Mental health | Children's Services | Early help

Children with ADHD in Doncaster are benefiting from improved...

How local teams in Westminster are joining forces to close gaps in children's services

• Children's Services | Early help | Families/Parenting | Information sharing | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection

Westminster's locality teams are working to help prevent...

Improving the way family support services work for minority ethnic families

• Children's Services | Early help

This report explores the experiences of minority ethnic...

Leading and delivering early childhood services: 10 insights from 20 places across England and Wales

• Children's Services | Early help | Early Years

This report gives 10 insights for leading maternity and...

Youth Work in the UK (England)

• Early help | Youth Work

Focuses on the development of UK youth work.

Children and Young People's Services: Funding and Spending 2010/11 to 2017/18

• Early help

An overview of the latest trends in funding and spending on...

Children's Health and Development: Approaches to Early Identification and Intervention

• Health | Early help | Preventing Care Proceedings

This article summarises the evidence around effective...

Intensive Interventions Suitable for Children on the Edge of Care: Report and Recommendations for Social Finance

• Early help | Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

This report identifies the interventions that are effective...

The Effectiveness of the Incredible Years Pre-school Parenting Programme in the United Kingdom: a Pragmatic Randomised Trial

• Early help | Families/Parenting | Preventing Care Proceedings

The authors discuss the findings of an evaluation of the...

Youth Mental Health: New Economic Evidence

• Health | Children's Services | Children's rights | Early help | Information sharing | Leadership | Service configuration | Mental Health

Study of the economic impact of youth mental health services...