Early Help Children’s Centres are a core part of the Early Help Delivery Model across Hull. There are 8 Children’s Centres across the city, 3 of which are the Early Help Locality Hubs.
The eight centres provide a base for bringing together a range of practitioners supporting close collaboration and alignment of services to form an Early Help Team. All staff work with partners across the locality to deliver an integrated approach to early help services, these include:
• Early Help Family Support Workers and Senior Family support workers
• Early Help SEND Family Support Workers
• Early Help Social Workers
• Parenting Practitioners
• Targeted Pregnancy Support Workers
• Early Help Coordinators
• Family Group Conferencing workers
• Healthy Lifestyle Practitioners
• Youth Workers
• Refresh Drug and Alcohol workers
Partners and commissioned services also working out of the Early Help Children’s Centres include
• Young Carers Workers
• Drug and Alcohol Workers (Renew)
• Job Centre Plus Troubled Families Employment Advisers
• Health Visitors and Health and Development Practitioners
• KIDS staff
• HomeStart
• Midwifery
What we do
We offer a wide range of support for children, young people and families in Hull, with children aged 0 to 11 years old. At any point and after this age, we work closely with other Early Help teams to ensure that the family receive support, if needed, at any point in the child’s life.
The Early Help Delivery model focuses on a programme of change of co-ordinated, cost-effective, timely and tailored support for children, young people and families.
This support ranges from Universal to Targeted support including:
• Family and parenting support utilising the Family Stars assessment and a range of evidence based tools
• Parenting courses – Incredible Years, Family Links Nurturing, Triple P, HENRY
• Play and learning sessions which are linked in the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework and are planned around measured outcomes for children
• Infant massage classes which promote bonding and attachment, infant feeding, speech and language development and is also a great introduction into the services for families
• Healthy Lifestyles support, sessions and advice including Us Mums exercise classes; Cooking on a Budget Courses; help to stop smoking; breastfeeding support and advice
• SEND family support, co-ordinating services for families, offering parenting advice
• Child health clinics in conjunction with health visitors
• Midwifery clinics are delivered from all of our centres
• Home safety checks, advice and equipment
• Help to find work or training through Youth Employment Initiative and Job Centre Plus
• Volunteering, Education and Training
• A place to meet other parents and carers, build up friendships and support networks.
This model of support reduces demand for specialist and acute services by using a joined-up and evidence-based approach to early help, resulting in improved outcomes and life chances for families through their needs being met earlier.
