The 0-5 Team

The Early Help 0-5 Team works closely with other professional teams to support our youngest children and those expecting families. We have strong partnerships with those working with families with children under the age of five, including health visitors, early years settings and midwifery. We've developed pathways with these partners to ensure that families seeking more help than what they already have from these partners can get the support they need at the earliest point.

The 0-5 Team provides focused support to those families needing more specific help. This would include a family's early help assessment and plan. These tools will help us provide the right support to meet the needs of the family, and usually include working with others such as Health Visitors and Early Years settings.

We can support families across a range of needs and worries, for example:

• Child development – information and advice to support children’s development including children with SEND
• Parenting using the Understanding Your Child approach tailored to the needs of the family and the child, including children with SEND
• Healthy relationships and reducing arguments between parents
• Communicating with other professionals and putting families in touch with services to make sure that families get support around specific needs e.g. Children with SEND, mental health, finances, housing, domestic abuse

The 0-5 team also attends the Health Visitor Open Access Clinics that take place regularly across the Early Help Family Hubs. This means that families who come to speak to a Health Visitor can also speak to a Family Support Worker about any other concerns they may have.

Here is what some families have told us about the support we have given them:

I feel that we have received the right support for our family and that I feel more confident as to where to go to get support in the community and with my son going to Severndale that he is settled, I know that there is the support there if needed in the future along with the support from Early Help Hub.

We were given a lot of good information such as All In and different charities, some we are entitled to but also in case we do become eligible in the future we know about it.

I am very happy with the support that my Family Support Worker has given to me, I have built up a good relationship with our Family Support Worker during the home visits and at meetings, I feel that she listens to me and does not judge.

The service has helped to make things possible for our family. We felt listened to and supported. Helping us to understand what services we needed to better ourselves. And the children loved to see our Family Support Worker coming to the house with toys and activities bringing much joy to the house.