Early Help Panels Review Survey

Overview

The Early Help panels were launched in September 2016, as part of the launch; we are undertaking a survey with practitioners around the city to find out your views about the Early Help Panels and to help us improve. 

The purpose of the Early Help Panels is to give local practitioners the opportunity to discuss cases, identify blockages and agree solutions have been set up across the city.  The Early Help Panels will share information across agencies on a child or family and help ensure a consistent approach to Early Help in the local area.

The membership of the Local Early Help Panels comes from the main agencies in each of the five areas, including Health, Education, Police, Early Years, Voluntary Sector, Housing Family Support, Safeguarding, Youth Offending Service and Mental Health.  Any practitioner working with a child or family and offering early help support can attend a panel meeting to discuss their case.

The Early Help Panels will:

• help agencies manage a case within their own resources and/or with the support of other agencies
• address blockages in the system
• provide a level of multi-agency background information sharing on a case/family
• suggest actions and ways forward

The current process to access your local Early Help Panel is:

• To access the Early Help Panel you will need full consent of the family, and to have been working with the family to complete an Early Help Assessment
• Send an e-mail to request a slot on your local panel, attaching the Early Help Assessment to this e-mail:
  • If you have access to secure email: ehpbhamsecure@birmingham.gcsx.gov.uk
  • If you do not have access to secure email: ehpbham@birmingham.gov.uk
• You could also be directed to the Early Help Panels through a conversation with CASS (Children’s Advice and Support Service) who will ask you to e-mail the early help panels
• You will be sent details of the local Early Help Panel that you should attend with the date and a timeslot.