One or more services provide voluntary additional support to meet the child and family needs. This is co-ordinated by a service that knows the child/family best.

An Early Help Plan and Team Around the Family meeting is helpful to bring the family and involved services together to share information and agree what support would be helpful.

Individual agency internal routes to access additional supports or to request external services.

Children and families with additional needs who would benefit from or who require extra help to:

improve education, 

improve parenting and/or behaviour,

meet specific health or emotional needs of the child and/or parent,

improve their material situation and/or

respond to a short term crisis such as bereavement, parental separation.

parenting support,

commissioned early help services,

school holiday and after school clubs,

extra health support for family members,

behavioural support,

housing support,

additional learning support,

Special Education Needs (SEN) Support plan,

help to find education and employment,

Emotional Wellbeing Mental Health Service support to schools,

Speech and language Therapy,

Family Hubs and/or

Targeted Youth Work Services provided on a voluntary basis.

The life chances of children and families are improved by offering early help and additional support.