Dr Cathy Hamer & Sharon Kelly

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)

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 legislative framework translates into real change for families Edward Timpson, Minister for Children & Families, 2013

Early Support principles Full version

Early Support is
focused on partnership working with children, young people and families based on co-production and participation of parent carers and young people centred around coordinated and tailored support person centred planning with key working support reliant on joint decision-making multiagency in concept and scope integration of support provided by education, health and social care Practical help in a time of change

Main provisions
Coordinated assessment and Education, Health & Care Plans

Early Supports offer

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 assessment Tools App; Our Family resource (including single plan format) ; case studies; family journeys; school pathway 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 evidence

Local Offer

Tools 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 Experience to share parent carers and Experience of co-production from the beginning; focus on family centred approaches young people and building resilience; listening to what families tell us they require Tools Parent carer workshops; co-produced resources; films, case studies; family journeys

Early Support national picture

Solution focus

Tools to support

Challenges
Economic constraints Resistance to changes Awareness of how Early Support can help

Characteristic elements
Shared information Joint planning and decision making with families Co-ordination of activity and key working Many inputs and programmes but one plan

Early Support resources

Our Family My Life

Early Support app

Coming soon - currently being tested.

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

http://ncb.org.uk/earlysupport/resources/developmental-journals

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 peers he was.

Information resources
Autistic spectrum disorders Behaviour Cerebral palsy Deafness & hearing loss Learning disabilities Multi-sensory impairments Neurological disorders Speech, language & communication needs Visual impairment If your child has a rare condition Living without a diagnosis General information Childcare Sleep People you may meet Useful contacts Looking after yourself as a parent

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

Early Support and key working

Key Working
Key working aims to ensure the provision of holistic care and support to meet the individual needs of the child or young person and their family

Key working
Key working is an approach that builds on partnership working with the disabled child, young person and their family and the practitioners working with them to facilitate the coordination of an integrated package of solution-focused support. Key working is one of the most important elements of support for children, young people and families it helps them to live ordinary lives and enables the growth of strong and resilient families

Joining it all together

Emotional and Practical Support

Coordination
Children and Families Bill

Code of Practice

Planning and assessment

Information and Specialist Support

Key working is supporting children, young people and their families to get from where they are, to where they want to be

Finding out more

A brief guide & a report on key working
www.ncb.org.uk/earlysupport/key-working

Early Support and key working What can help

MAPIT
The Multi Agency Planning and Improvement Tool

Improvement planning and development charts Putting Early Support principles into practice evidence, actions, ratings, change

Training
Strategic Managers Workshop - to support local areas to develop a shared understanding of key working through exploring current and local context, and the links with commissioning. Key working training For practitioners and parent carers.

Early Support and Working in Partnership For practitioners and parent carers
Parent carer workshops For parents / carers of disabled children and those with additional needs MAPIT Multi-Agency Planning and Implementation Tool

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 and Communities

A Do It Yourself Guide
Low cost, no cost , just get on with it.

The impact

Early Support films

Hearing from the difference Early Support is making: Wolverhampton Working 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

Pathfinders & non-Pathfinders

Manchester improving joint planning for young people Somerset culture change, person centred planning, Early Support and working practices in schools Wolverhampton using MAPIT for service development in special schools Kettering using MAPIT to implement Early Support approaches and tools in a special school Cornwall and Plymouth

Cornwall - Pathfinder

Cornwall Early 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 designated approach being used for higher needs families Not just SEND, but also Early Help agenda Early Support used to support organisational and professional culture change

Cornwall key insight

..we operate as a preventative service. Some families are supported 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.

Plymouth - non-Pathfinder

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 reforms a 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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