Sandwell Early Help Offer at a glance - Strengthening Families Teams' contacts.

These ‘action cards’ have been produced to fit in with Sandwell’s windscreen of support model and are suggestions around the support available as you travel through the ‘windscreen’.

This booklet has been put together as a resource for Practitioners working with and supporting children, young people and families in Sandwell, and aims to inform you about what Early Help looks like in Sandwell and how to access support you may need in your role.

For those members of the Out of School Settings Community, the SCSP would like to provide you with some essential resources to support your safeguarding efforts.

Working Together to Safeguard Children 2023 was published in December 2023. It outlines a number of changes to improve practice, processes and systems across the continuum of help and support by strengthening multi-agency working while keeping children at the centre of our work using a whole family approach.

With the changes to Universal Credit being rolled out, many people across Sandwell will be affected. SMBC Income Management Team would like to share a briefing with you, to help support any families/individuals that you may be working with and that could be affected by these changes.

The NEW programme of our Community Network Meetings has now been arranged for each of the localities and will take us through to June 2025.

Join Leanne from the SCSP as she talks you through some of the key points of the Working Together 2023 to Safeguard Children guidance and how the VCS are an important part of the bigger picture.

Conflict and arguments between parents and within families is normal. However, conflict between parents can start to harm children’s outcomes if it becomes destructive.  Destructive parental conflict is frequent, intense, and poorly resolved. It can happen even if parents are no longer in a relationship together but are still co-parenting.

Permanence - creating more resilience within families and communities and ensuring all of our children and young people have a safe, happy and stable home.