Webinar: Early help for families: Strengthening the foundations of social care’s “Jenga tower” by CYP Now

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About This Webinar

This session will explore the evidence and recommendations from National Children’s Bureau research on the role of early help services for children and families who need extra support. Supporting and strengthening families through early help: A rapid review of evidence examines variations in what is meant by early help; the range of different interventions and the potential for positive outcomes for families; and the challenges in evaluating early help services. It comes on the back of a report by the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care, which likened the children’s services system in England to a “tower of Jenga, held together with Sellotape”.

The session will discuss findings, implications for practice and how these link in with the children’s social care review.

Presenter

Caroline Coady

Assistant Director for Social Care, National Children’s Bureau

Caroline has a degree in Health and Social Care and holds qualifications in leadership and management in health and social care for children and young people. Caroline is actively involved in the Living Assessment’s programme as an ambassador for the project, giving expert advice to the project, integrating the project with NCB’s other social care work and contributes to the project’s publications, including the recently published rapid review of Early Help: Supporting and Strengthening families through early help.

She leads on NCB’s Social Care practice improvement including past programmes such as the social care innovation programme and currently leads on the strategic reform partner work with the Department for Education managing training and resource development for social work practitioners; communications strategy and dissemination of learning through our key professional networks. Caroline has been the NCB Safeguarding Early adopters Lead facilitator, working with 17 Early Adopters sites and helping to put in place new arrangements for multi-agency safeguarding.

She is a key player in ensuring the success of CDC’s social care training programmes which look at the links between recent changes in SEND legislation and supporting young people as they prepare for adulthood.

Her experience of supporting families to navigate existing support systems has allowed her to see how challenging this system can be both for families and the professionals working within it. Caroline is passionate about using her wealth of experience to change and improve outcomes for children and young people