Early Help

Early Help Offer

Team Around the Early Years.

We are part of the Team around the Early Years

What is Team Around the Early Years (TAEY)?

 As part of the development of Start Well, the TAEY approach aims to provide an improved way of working to support children in their early years to get the best start in life and become school ready. The TAEY approach brings together professionals that work in the early years and beyond, to develop a greater understanding of roles, skills and knowledge in identifying emerging need so that children achieve optimum development and make smooth transitions into school.

The Key Principles to this way of working are:

– A focus on early help and intervention to prevent escalation into statutory services or crisis intervention

– Earlier identification of emerging need through timely assessments and the provision of evidenced-based interventions and coordinated plans to support children to start school ready to learn

– Effective and appropriate information sharing between agencies to support assessment of need and risk

– Use of Early Help Assessment and Team Around the Child/Family processes to build on the strengths of the family, ensuring they receive the right package of coordinated support at the right time which is reviewed regularly

– Collaborative working and restorative approaches; working with the family to develop relationships and provide effective support, appropriate challenge and ultimately positive outcomes for the child.

 How does the Team Around the Early Years work?

 TAEY is a partnership between early education and childcare providers, Stockport Family and other agencies who will work together to offer support to families with children 0-5 years. The TAEY will provide a mechanism to support a shared conversation about children and families with emerging needs. The TAEY will problem solve and develop a shared understanding as to what is required to prevent the family from escalating into statutory services or crisis intervention. It is an opportunity to pool resources at a locality level to ensure children and families get the right support at the right time.

Working restoratively and holistically, Start Well locality teams (Health Visitors, Start Well Coordinator and Early Years Workers) will work closely with early education and childcare providers to identify children who may be in need of additional support to enable them to reach their full potential and become school ready.