Our Early Help Offer

What is Early Help?

The purpose of early help is to prevent issues and problems becoming serious and harmful to a child or young person, their family and community. When children and families need this extra support, they often need it quickly. At Holy Trinity, we offer a range of Early Help support and during a child’s time at our school many of them, and their families, will access some form of Early Help.

What does Early Help for pupils include?

1:1  or group support focusing on:

  • Promoting resilience.
  • Promoting friendship.
  • Promoting positive behaviour and attitudes to learning.
  • Support with bereavement, family breakdown or other trauma.
  • Promoting attendance (school refusal).
  • Support with social and emotional regulation.

What does Early Help for families include?

  • Signposting and access to a variety of parent workshops in school and on the school’s website led by the MHST (see Wellbeing section).
  • Assistance in completing paperwork and forms e.g. housing, referral forms, letters of support, foodbank vouchers, wraparound care.
  • Advice and support in promoting positive behaviour at home.
  • Providing information and signposting to other services in the local area.
  • Liaising with a range of external services including the Riverbank Trust, but others such as housing and Family Support Workers.

Who provides Early Help support in school?

Early Help support is provided by a variety of staff across our school, however, it is usually overseen by the Inclusion Leader – Mrs Whiteside. If a parent/carer approaches a staff member about Early Help support, they will discuss this with Mrs Whiteside (or Mrs Bateman) to decide on next steps.

Where a referral to another professional is seen as beneficial, such as to our Educational Wellbeing Practitioner (see our Wellbeing section), Family Support, Riverbank or a concern about your child’s learning and a referral to the professionals involved with this, for example CAMHS, the school will either make the referral or work with the family to support the referral and next steps.