Early Support

8/13/2019 Early Support

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Dr Cathy Hamer & Sharon Kelly


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The issue

Achieving our ambitions for disabled children and young

people and those with special educational needs and their

families will depend on changes in the ways that

education, health and social care professionals work with

children, young people and families and in the ways they

work with each other.

Support and Aspiration progress and next steps

(May, 2012)


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Early Support and culture change

Early Support provides a framework for action for the implementation of

the SEND provisions of the Children and Families Bill

Based on 10 principles, it provides a framework for cultural change and

practical tools to enable this

Early Support has "demonstrated the

impact that well coordinated family

focused services can have and it is

helping to ensure that the legislativeframework translates into real change

for families

Edward Timpson, Minister for Children &

Families, 2013


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Early Support principlesFull version


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Early Support is

focused on partnership working withchildren, young people and families

based on co-production andparticipation of parent carers andyoung people

centred around coordinated andtailored supportperson centredplanning with key working support

reliant on joint decision-making

multiagency in concept and scope integration of support provided byeducation, health and social care

Practical help in a time of change


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Main

provisions

Early Supports offer

Coordinated

assessment and

Education,

Health & CarePlans

Experience to share

Experience of person centred planning together with a strategy focused on - and

providing a context for - integrated working and joint approaches to assessment and

planning; developmental journals as an evidence base for joint assessmentTools

App; Our Family resource (including single plan format) ; case studies; family journeys;

school pathway

Local Offer Experience to share

Principles as a framework; experience of what works in terms of working in partnership

with families and co-production; key working range of evidenceTools

Information resources; parent carer workshops; key working guidance; MAPIT

Personal budgets Experience to share

Key working range of evidence; evidence about what works in terms of person centred,

family focused approach

Tools

information resources; parent carer workshops; key working training; working in

partnership training

Working with

parent carers and

young people

Experience to share

Experience of co-production from the beginning; focus on family centred approaches

and building resilience; listening to what families tell us they require

Tools

Parent carer workshops; co-produced resources; films, case studies; family journeys


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Economic constraints

Resistance to changes

Awareness of how Early Support

can help

Early Support national picture

Solutionfocus

Challenges

Tools to

support


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Characteristic elements

Shared

information

Co-ordination

of activity and

key working

Joint planning

and decision

making with

families

Many inputs

and

programmes

but one plan


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Early Support resources


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Our Family

My Life


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Early Support app

Coming soon - currently being tested.


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Developmental Journals

Early Years

Babies & children with visual impairment

Babies & children with Down Syndrome

Deaf babies & children

Children & young people with multiple needs

How to use guides

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The developmental journal allowed me

to share information with the nursery

and they with me. It helped the nursery

to plan his IEPs with me and celebrate

small steps of his progress, rather than

just focusing on how far behind his peershe was.


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Information resources

http://ncb.org.uk/early-support/resources/new-information-resources

Autistic spectrum disorders

BehaviourCerebral palsy

Deafness & hearing loss

Learning disabilities

Multi-sensory impairments

Neurological disorders

Speech, language & communication needsVisual impairment

If your child has a rare condition

Living without a diagnosis

General information

Childcare

SleepPeople you may meet

Useful contacts

Looking after yourself as a parent
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Early Support and key working


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Key Working

Key working aims to ensure the provision

of holistic care and support to meet the

individual needs of the child or youngperson and their family


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Key working is an approachthat builds onpartnershipworking with the disabled child, youngperson and their family and the practitioners working

with them to facilitatethe coordination of anintegrated package of solution-focused support.

Key working is one of the most important elements ofsupport for children, young people and familiesithelps them to live ordinary lives and enables thegrowth of strong and resilient families

Key working


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Joining it all together

Emotional

and

Practical

Support

Planning and

assessment

Coordination

Information

and

Specialist Support

Children and

Families Bill

Code of Practice


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Key working is supporting children,

young people and their families to get

from where they are, to where they

want to be


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Finding out more

A brief guide & a report

on key working

www.ncb.org.uk/early-

support/key-working
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Early Support and key workingWhat can help


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MAPIT

The Multi Agency Planning and Improvement Tool

Improvement planning and developmentcharts

Putting Early Support principles into

practiceevidence, actions, ratings,change


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Training

Strategic Managers Workshop - tosupport local areas todevelop a shared understanding of key working throughexploring current and local context, and the links withcommissioning.

Key working trainingFor practitioners and parent carers.

Early Support and Working in PartnershipFor practitionersand parent carers

Parent carer workshopsFor parents / carers of disabledchildren and those with additional needs

MAPITMulti-Agency Planning and Implementation Tool


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An Early Support Pathway for Schools

The Early Support Pathway for Schools

Building sustainable solutions so that Early Support can be

implemented and embedded for Children, Young People, Families andCommunities

A Do It Yourself Guide

Low cost, no cost , just get on with it.


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The impact


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Early Support films

Hearing from the difference Early Support is making:

WolverhamptonWorking in partnership

A fathers journey Marks story

Starting school I wish Id known

Ways to say I love you

What about the future

What about work What about drugs and alcohol

What about sex and relationships


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Pathfinders & non-Pathfinders

Manchesterimproving joint planning for young

people

Somersetculture change, person centred

planning, Early Support and working practices inschools

Wolverhamptonusing MAPIT for service

development in special schools Ketteringusing MAPIT to implement Early

Support approaches and tools in a special school

Cornwall and Plymouth


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Cornwall - Pathfinder


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CornwallEarly Support as a

framework for action

Early Support used as their framework for action for the Children

and Families Bill, working with children and young people from

birth to 19 years

Early Support principles guide services, teams and individual

practitioners in their practice The Early Support approach is embedded within a Team Around the

Child (TAC) process

Each child or young person has Early Support Plan

Key working embedded in practice across agencies, with designatedapproach being used for higher needs families

Not just SEND, but also Early Help agenda

Early Support used to support organisational and professional

culture change


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Cornwallkey insight

..we operate as a preventative service. Some families aresupported longer term, but for many its about supporting them

through a key transition period or a period of crisis. Support may

be light touch, with a meeting and new action plan every six

months or so to help with co-ordination. That process just ticks

along nicely, but if you take it away, families move into crisis.


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Plymouth - non-Pathfinder


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Plymouths vision - Embedding Early

Support at a time of change

Whole system approach

Aiming to bring all targeted services together within a single

structure to provide a coordinated response regardless of whether

the additional need springs from disability or something else.

Entails an overarching workforce development strategy

Early Support is central to Plymouths forward planning for the SEND

reformsa key priority is to maintain a similar way of working with

families across statutory and non-statutory processes. Key working is everyones responsibility

A practitioner commented - The good thing is that Early Support

has now become so embedded that its no longer a service, its just

become the way we work with families.


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