Early Help

Every family goes through challenging times at some point. The early help system is a network of services, processes and interactions that aim to help children, young people and families at the earliest opportunity, in order to improve outcomes for children or prevent escalating need or risk.  Early help is for everybody, for families with children and young people of any age. And it’s their choice whether to have it or not.

Here is some more information about early help on the Isles of Scilly.

Cornwall has an Early Help Hub which is a professional triage and processing hub for all service requests for Children’s Early Help Services led by Cornwall Council and the Cornwall NHS Partnership Foundation Trust (CFT).

Here is a useful resource from the NSPCC about what we mean by the terms early help and early intervention.