Early Help Practice Guide - We want your feedback

Successful delivery of Early Help depends on effective partnership working across a wide range of agencies, services and settings, such as health services, schools, learning providers, local authorities, voluntary sector, children and family centres, police, housing providers and many others.

The Early Help Practice Guide aims to provide direction to the whole range of practitioners working with and supporting vulnerable children, young people and families in Gloucestershire. Early Help is a key element of safeguarding and while at times it may involve referrals to other agencies, at its heart it is about providing support by practitioners who have an existing, trusted relationship with the child, young person or family in order to intervene early and prevent problems from escalating. The Practice Guide is intended as a companion document to the Levels of Intervention Guidance issued by the Safeguarding Executive and the Guidance Booklet for Practitioners Working with Children and Young People (0-25 years old) with Additional Needs including SEND. The key aims of the guidance are:

  • To make sure children, young people and families receive the support at the earliest opportunity in order to prevent needs from escalating
  • To improve the understanding and application of thresholds between the different levels of intervention
  • To improve understanding and provision of Early Help across the partners mentioned above
  • To support practitioners working with children and young people with emerging or additional needs – including how and where they can access support
  • To improve the use of the Graduated Pathway of Early Help and Target Support (our Early Help assessment and planning process) to identify need and implement co-ordinated plans

Early Help for Children, Young People and Families Guide

We want your feedback!

We’d really appreciate a couple of minutes of your time for feedback on the draft Early Help Practice Guide attached, as this will help us to shape the document into something that will have the most impact for practitioners. This draft was produced before the GSCB changed its name to the GSCE – this will be updated in the next draft of the guide.

There are six short questions in the survey linked below. Please let us have any have any feedback by Friday 25 October.

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If you have any queries about the Practice Guide, please email ehpracticeguidefeedback@gloucestershire.gov.uk 

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