The Early Help Partnership Strategy for 2022 - 2025 sets out:
We consulted the draft strategy from 1 November to 12 December 2021. The consultation followed extensive stakeholder engagement.
As well as the information we received from stakeholders, we received 20 responses to the consultation. This included:
We asked respondents whether they agreed or disagreed with the proposed strategy priorities:
We also engaged children and young people to understand their views on Early Help and their experience of services:
For more information about the consultation responses, please see the Early Help Partnership Strategy, 2022 - 25 Consultation Outcome Report (PDF 0.43MB).
At its meeting on 10 May 2022, Buckinghamshire Council adopted the Early Help Partnership Strategy 2022 - 2025.
A partnership action plan will outline what we need to do to meet the four priorities.
The action plan will be reviewed by the Children and Young People’s Partnership Board to assess and challenge progress. It will be a living document that’s updated to reflect changing priorities.
We are holding this consultation to gather your views about our draft Early Help Partnership Strategy 2022 to 2025 (the strategy). Our current strategy expires in March 2022, so we have created a new one to help us plan for the next 3 years.
We want to make sure that children, young people, and their families receive support to deal with problems before they get worse. This support is known as Early Help.
When problems grow, they can become longer-lasting, traumatic, harder to resolve and need more costly support from services like social care, health services and police.
Early Help involves many different services, which are provided by a range of organisations across Buckinghamshire. These organisations include the council, NHS, schools, charities, community groups and others.
There are different types of support, such as advice and information, drop-in sessions at Family Centres, direct support from an individual professional, or coordinated support from a group of professionals working together.
The contents of this strategy will affect children, young people and families in Buckinghamshire who may need support to deal with the problems they face.
These could be to do with behaviours and boundaries at home, lack of routine, school attendance, lack of self-esteem or confidence, financial problems, and many more.
The strategy also affects organisations that work with children, young people, and their families.
The purpose of the strategy is to outline:
The strategy sets out 4 priorities:
Please find below the full Strategy and Summary documents we have drafted. We strongly recommend you read these before providing your feedback.
We will review all the feedback we receive to guide us in making any relevant changes to the Early Help Partnership Strategy and Summary documents.
The final, amended versions of both documents will then go to the Children and Young People’s Partnership Board and the Council’s Corporate Management Team for approval.
Once approved, we will publish the strategy and summary on our Family Information Service website and promote them.
We will update this page with the outcome of the consultation process when it is complete, sometime in Spring 2022.
We will use the information you provide here only for the purpose of this consultation. We will keep the information confidential and store it securely, in line with data protection laws and will not share or publish any personal details. For more information about data and privacy, please see our Privacy Policy.
If you have questions, please email us on dataprotection@buckinghamshire.gov.uk. or write to our Data Protection Officer at Buckinghamshire Council, The Gateway, Gatehouse Road, Aylesbury, HP19 8FF.
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