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Safeguarding

Early Help

We work alongside our families to ensure that children are supported, particularly in times of difficulty. If you, your child or family would benefit from extra support with your well-being, or if you are worried about a difficult situation in your family you can contact us for support. You might benefit from Early Help.

What is Early Help?

Early Help is providing the right help at the right time to children, young people and their families. When a child, young person or the family need some extra support, Early Help is often the first response offered by those services in contact with them. It can be required at any stage in a child's life, from pre-birth to adulthood, and applies to any problem or need that the family can't deal with alone. Early Help can be school led or led by working with other agencies or a member of Herefordshire's Early Help team.

Early Help means acting early and as soon as possible to provide support where problems are emerging for children, young people and their families.

The type of things Early Help can support with include:

  • Family relationships
  • Challenging behaviours
  • Housing and financial matters
  • Emotional and mental health worries
  • Keeping your child safe (on-line and in the community)
  • Child well-being and development
  • Children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), and their families
  • Any issue affecting you and your family

If you would like some advice and support, speak to Mrs Miles or Mrs Taylor and we can discuss what support is available. Alternatively you can explore what is offered by the Children's Help and Advice Team (CHAT) at Herefordshire Council.

Advice/ Support to help parents and carers to keep their children safe

Call the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) helpline for support and advice if you have a concern for your own or another child’s safety on 0808 800 5000.

If you feel that a child is in immediate danger, call the police on 999. You can report concerns to the police on their non-emergency number, 101.

You can also contact the Herefordshire Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) on 01432 260800.

Children and young people who have been victims of a crime may need support to cope and recover. You don’t have to report the crime to the police to get support. You can find free, local support teams across England and Wales on the Victim and Witness Information site.

Childline offers support 24 hours a day. Call 0800 1111

Advice to parents and carers on keeping children safe from abuse and harm Website with DfE and PHE guidance including tips, advice and information for parents about keeping children safe. Updated 22nd February 2021

Parents Protect Website Useful information page for parents to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation.

 

Some of your might find the social prescriber service, accessed via GPs, helpful.

Talk Wellbeing also have a hub in Maylord Orchard and also have social prescribers.

https://www.herefordshiregeneralpractice.co.uk/for-patients/social-prescribing

https://www.herefordshiregeneralpractice.co.uk/news/talk-wellbeing-official-maylords-launch

https://www.hvoss.org.uk/social-prescribing/

Parent Online Advice and Resources

You can find lots of information offered by CEOP if you are concerned about online abuse or the way someone has been communicating online. (Child Exploitation and Online Protection

Click above to visit The Parent Hub from The Key. It is full of online safety resources for parents. There are easy to use, interactive mobile-friendly guides for setting parental controls on devices.

All the information you need to help keep your child safe on popular devices and apps including those listed below.

Support for parents and carers to keep their children safe online includes:

Other support

NSPCC - A Parents' Guide to being Share Aware

Your child's online world

Creating a secure password

Guide to Live streaming

Home Internet Providers

There are Parental controls offered by your home internet provider. You can contact them for more details on how to protect your family online. Below are some tips on how to activate free parental controls from the 4 big internet providers in the UK - BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media. They have produced these helpful video guides to help you to download and set-up the controls offered by your provider.

How to set up filters on your home internet to help prevent age-inappropriate content being accessed on devices in your home.

 

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