Early / family help JSNAA (health and wellbeing needs in South Tyneside)
High level priorities
High level prioritisation of the early / family help system
We understand the significant impact of poverty on the health and wellbeing of children, young people and families.
The following activities are some examples of programmes that have been introduced to help our residents with the cost of living / poverty issues:
- the Welcoming Places network
- the Holiday Activities and Food Programme, and
- work with schools around poverty
Involving service user, partner and stakeholder perspectives
- Prioritise the development of mechanisms to actively seek, analyse, and respond to the perspectives and experiences of service users, partners, and other stakeholders.
Working with partners
- Prioritising ongoing support and collaborative working between early / family help practitioners and social work staff to help facilitate innovative and case sharing solutions.
- Consider approach to working with adult services staff to identify potential referrals to early / family help services for children dependents.
Evaluating existing service to help make improvements
- Perform regular audits of early / family help referrals to ensure quality and to inform ongoing assessments of needs in the borough.
- Following engagement with services in the early / family help system, develop a mechanism to collect data that will support evaluation of the different programmes available.
- Explore a mechanism to integrate agency assessments data into the wider early / family help system to support system-wide assessment of needs.
- Consider further work to review and understand how different services work together to address the same need.
- Consider further work to map early / family help support by geographic location, prioritising the areas of highest need. This will help to understand barriers to provide support based on geography.