Early Help Strategic Partnership Priorities and Vision 4

Early Help Strategic Partnership Priorities and Vision

4 Priorities Ø Ø Improved Child Health and Well being Increase achievement and involvement in education, training and employment for children and families Reduce the harm caused by poverty to children and families Building family and Community strengths

Improved Child Health and Well being • Supporting pre birth -19, identifying need at the earliest point • Aligning Early years, Health, Education, Local authority and community support for Under 5’s • Focus on improved speech, language and communication • Improving healthy family living/ diet / exercise • Focus on Trauma support to children and adults • Fewer parents, children and young people have mental ill health • More parents, children and young people who misuse substances accessing specific delivery/ treatment

Increase achievement and involvement in education, training and employment for children and families • Key focus on Early Years, developmental and education milestones • Increasing the take up free childcare • Focus on improved speech language and communication • Increasing the number of children who are school ready aged 5 (focus on areas of higher deprivation) • Supporting children with SEND • Increasing Early engagement and delivery with schools • Improve attainment and attendance • Reduce exclusion • Reduce the number of children with EHCP’s • Increase the number of parents in paid work

Reduce the harm caused by poverty to children and families • Approx 9000 Children (1 in 4) live in North East Lincolnshire. • Ensuring professional practice does address families’ material circumstances in assessment, planning and intervention. • practice will need to be rooted in positive relationships between families, communities and services • Families in poverty live in better housing conditions • More young people and parents living in poverty are in employment • Families living in poverty are more financially stable

Building family and Community strengths • Drawing on/ building services and resources which are recognised by families as useful and local • Parents can get help with their relationships with each other and not just their children • Building close working relationships with families and communities should become a core objective of children’s partnership policy and practice. • Feeling safe, having safe places to go and not being victim to crime • Contextualised approaches to safety and exploitation • Supporting families to stay together • Reducing statutory intervention • Focussing on reducing high levels of Domestic Abuse and neglect

4 elements of the Vision • Leadership • Families • Workforce • Communities