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

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 22 nd 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