Key Contacts
If you need support or assistance in offering Early Help to families please visit our Early Help Contact List
Early Help Localities
Localities hold regular Early Help triage meetings. They can provide support and advice on a range of subjects: how to complete the Early Help assessment, plan and review; using the Right For Children system; signposting professionals and families to local services and supporting the identification of a lead practitioner.
You can contact the Early Help localities via the following email addresses:-
- Exeter: Earlyhelpexetersecure-mailbox@devon.gov.uk
- Mid and East Devon: Earlyhelpmideastsecure-mailbox@devon.gov.uk
- Northern Devon: Earlyhelpnorthsecure-mailbox@devon.gov.uk
- South and West Devon: Earlyhelpsouthsecure-mailbox@devon.gov.uk
Right for Children Training
The courses are available on the Devon Learning Pool (DeL) and are delivered online via Microsoft Teams. See the Right for Children Training page for dates and details of how to book.
Early Help Countywide Newsletter
Click here to go to the newsletter Sway
Practitioner Forums
News of the dates and how to book is advertised in our Countywide Newsletter – see link above.
Resources from previous forums
February 2025 Forum – supporting families from ethnically diverse and minority backgrounds.
January 2025 Forum – Levels of Need, Case Studies and Useful Links
December 2024 Forum – Winter Forum: Housing, Citizens Advice, South West Water, ECOE (Exeter Community Energy), Exeter Winter Links
November 2024 Forum – Domestic Abuse Recovery – Young Person DA Recovery project, RISE, Phoenix Rising, 16 days of Action, Family Hubs, Links, FIT
October 2024 Forum (temporarily unavailable) – Early Help Locality Teams, Links, FIT and Family Hubs:
Resources, additional services and support
Parenting courses
Let’s Talk Teenagers course – free online support sessions for parents and carers
Solihull Approach online courses for all parents and parents-to-be
Parent Talk by Action for Children
Autism and Trauma support and guidance
 Click here to go to this Sway The aim of this document is to offer a quick guide to some of the help and guidance available for practitioners to support and signpost families and to raise awareness of autism and trauma |
ICON programme
Select this link for the ICON programme which aims to help prevent abusive head trauma by offering support to parents to help them cope with a crying baby.
CORC Outcome and Experience Measures
Select this link for the CORC Outcome and Experience Measures
Quality Assurance
There are 3 main ways to capture Quality Assurance (QA) as identified by the Devon SCP QA Sub-Group. These are: performance information; audit; and family feedback. It is important to identify how this learning is cascaded.
Measuring the Practice
Audit activity is required in order to understand what practice looks like on the ground and how it is managed.
The auditing process is under review in order to meet the new supporting families 10 headline themes.
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