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Early Help Consultation Information Events

County Council financial position

• We’ve saved £179m since 2010
• £50m to be saved over the next four years
• But - we’re also investing – particularly in

children’s social care

Early Help Service

• Our ‘early help’ services aim to tackle problems at an

early stage.

• We support children, young people and their families

so they can:

• Make the most of their lives
• Live in a safe environment
• Deal with challenges
• By preventing problems we help to reduce the need

for the police or social services.

Currently we have 4 services

Leicestershire County Council’s Early Help Service

Children’s Centres Supporting Leicestershire Families Youth Offending Service Early Help Information, Support and Assessment service

Our Partners

Leicestershire County Council’s Early Help Service

Our Partners

Early Help Information, Support and Assessment Service Youth Offending Service Supporting Leicestershire Families Children’s Centres

Children's Centres

• Many services are delivered with

partners e.g. Health visitors, midwives

Supporting Leicestershire Families (SLF)

Youth Offending Service and Community Safety (YOS)

Early Help Information Support and Assessment (EHISA)

Why change?

• Leicestershire County Council is getting less

money from the Government to help pay for services.

Why these changes?

• Currently these 4 services all have separate buildings, staff

and management.

• We think that joining the services together would:
• Help us give the right support to individual people
• Reduce the costs of providing these services
• Give us the chance to improve how we work

Proposals

• We propose to join our 4 services together to make a

Family Wellbeing Service for 0-19 year olds.

• We plan to deliver this from 15 Family Wellbeing

Centres.

The new service

• The new 0-19 service would focus on

providing support to the most vulnerable families.

How we plan to work

• We want to provide the right support for each

individual person or family.

• We will improve what's available on our website to

provide information and advice.

• We plan to deliver the service from 5 Hubs and 10

Family Support Centres

Where?

Location of proposed centres

Current Service Users mapped against 15 proposed centres

Buildings that we no longer require in the future

• Half (20) of the buildings are owned by the

County Council and the other half (20) are leased.

• We would look for other ways to use the

buildings that we won’t be needing.

What happens next?

• Consultation closes 22nd April at midnight
• Results will be analysed and feedback used to

shape the new service model

• Final proposals will be presented to Council

Cabinet in July.

Consultation