Early Help in Medway
Steering Group
The Early Help steering group provides a partnership overview of what our early helps services are achieving and monitors how joint processes are working.
Purpose of Steering Group
- Collectively seek solutions to challenges and problems in the local system
- Review the impact of multi agency training on early help across Medway and identify opportunities to share learning
- Identify best practice that will improve outcomes for children, young people and families, and ensure dissemination across the Medway system
- Oversee communications on Early Help in Medway to ensure a consistent and appropriate approach
- Receive updates from lead Early Help officers and provide support and challenge in order to secure continuous improvement
- Make recommendations to commissioners for services required to meet the needs of Medway
Aims and Objectives
- Upskilling the workforce and increasing awareness
- Increase in uptake and quality of Early Help Assessments
- Reduction in the number of families needing Social Care
Organisation and services represented
- Kent Police
- Schools
- Midwifery
- School Nursing
- Adult and Community Learning
- Early Years
- Public Health
- SEN and Educational Psychology
- Youth Services
- Children’s Therapies
- Integrated Family Support
- Kent Fire and Rescue
- Housing
- Medway CCG
- Commissioning
- Medway Youth Trust
- DWP
- Mid Kent College
- Medway Voluntary Action
Steering Group minutes