Become a Early Help Champion
Early Help Champions are passionate about practice and motivated to support the ongoing implementation within their own service area. They work within our children's and adult’s workforce across Cumberland and Westmorland and Furness and will provide some support and advice for their own organisation.
The role of the Early Help Champions is to:
Improve practice
- To improve Early Help practice and services for families in Cumberland and Westmorland and Furness local authority areas.
- Create good practice examples to support colleagues to understand how the Early Help approach fits within their team.
- Share good practice examples from within your teams with the Early Help Officers, (EHOs).
- Liaise with the EHO regarding any challenges, to ensure the Early Help Champion role is effective in supporting the continuous development and improvement of Early Help in Cumberland and Westmorland and Furness local authority areas.
- Keep up to date with local arrangements, such as how and who to share concerns about a child with and referral processes.
- Keep up to date with local policy and procedures in relation to Early Help, this will be supported by the Early Help Team and the CSCP.
- To identify gaps in provision/practice and feed this back to the Early Help Team and CSCP through Early Help Champions forums.
Share knowledge
- Attend bespoke Early Help Champions training and events and cascade the learning to colleagues.
- To ensure Early Help is a regular agenda item on their agencies team meetings.
- To be a point of contact and offer colleagues support relating to Early Help practice.
- Circulate relevant information, campaigns, updates, and resources internally within their organisation/department.
- To provide advice and signposting in relation to Early Help Assessment and Review process.
- Have the opportunity to meet on a regular basis at Network meetings to add to their knowledge and to build professional relationships.
- Share common themes, learning and challenges and have theirs and other Early Help practitioners’ voices heard at practice and strategic level.
Become a Early Help Champion
Cumberland:
Early Help Champions - Application Form (word)
Early Help Champions - Role Information (pdf)
Westmorland and Furness: