Early Help Offer

Providing ‘Early Help’ to our children and their families at Teagues Bridge Primary School means we can be more effective in ensuring children thrive and become successful. 

Early help means providing support as soon as a problem emerges.

We understand that family life can sometimes seem challenging.  From time to time, there may be situations where you need a little help and support. 

To support and advise you during challenging times, we have our Early Help Offer: 

What is an Early Help Assessment? 

This starts with an Early Help conversation. As a parent or carer, you will chat with one of our DSLs about what’s going well and what’s not going well for you and your family, and they will let you know what sort of help is available. This conversation might lead to an Early Help Assessment (EHA) which is how we get a full picture about the whole family. We use it to help you see what is working well and identify the areas where you could do with a bit of extra support. It is your choice to take part in the assessment and you can choose who else should be involved.

Every person and family is different, but an Early Help Assessment (EHA) will:

• Help you see what’s going well and not so well for your family.
• Help you to see what support you might need.
• Create a picture of your family’s circumstances.
• Help you to be part of a team of people working together on the same plan to get things going well again.

What happens after an Early Help Assessment? 

With your permission, people from different organisations working with your family will share information and work together to help support you and your children. This could be school, Family Hubs support practitioners, health visitors, school nurse, etc. This may then be followed by a ‘Support plan’ meeting. 

What is an Early Help Support plan? 

The family and workers involved come together to make a support plan. This is reviewed at regular intervals to ensure that progress is being made for your family and that the right support is in place. At these meetings a ‘lead worker’ is selected. It may be the person the family see most frequently, the one most involved or the most approachable. The lead worker arranges the review meetings and is someone you can speak to at any point about concerns or issues you or your family are facing.

Our Early Help Lead is Natalie Woods – Deputy Head and Designated Safeguarding Lead: