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Targeted Support District Teams

What is Early Help?

Sometimes families need a bit of extra support. You and your family might experience some changes or difficulties that you cannot manage by yourself. Whatever you are worried about, the Targeted Support district teams can provide early help to support you and your family so that small problems do not become big problems.

  • Early Help gives children and families the support they need, at the right time. We listen to your needs and bring together professionals who work with your whole family. This helps make things better for everyone.
  • The professionals who know you will assess the needs of your family using an Early Help Assessment. This will help you to get you support as quickly as possible.
  • It is a voluntary process. You choose whether to be involved and can withdraw from the process at any time. Sometimes, children and young people can make their own decisions about whether they need an Early Help Assessment, and who they want to support them.

Our District Targeted Support teams provide a targeted support service. It is a planned and structured approach in response to the family or young person's needs.

North Cambridgeshire

Heads of Service: Sarah Tabbitt

  • March, Chatteris and Whittlesey 
  • Wisbech
  • Huntingdon and St Ives
  • St Neots, Ramsey, Sawtry and Yaxley

South Cambridgeshire

Heads of Service: Tanya Diaper

  • East Cambridgeshire
  • South Cambridgeshire
  • Cambridge City

Contact

Early Help Hub

Email: early.helphub@cambridgeshire.gov.uk

Tel: 01480 376 666

Disciplines within each team work together to support families meet the identified needs of a child or young person.

  • Child and Family Centres – offer groups, events, activities, courses and support for families with children aged 0-19 with a focus on the Early Years. They offer a wide range of services and support for families from pregnancy to the teenage years.
  • Family Work - working with families through one to one interventions, parenting programmes and group activities. They build confidence and develop strategies to effect change in children’s lives.
  • Young People’s Workers – working with young people to overcome barriers and issues they face, which may mean they are at risk of becoming Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET).
  • Senior Transition Advisors/Transition Advisors/YOS Transition Advisors/Client Researchers - provide targeted information, advice, guidance and support to vulnerable young people at risk of becoming NEET, and track the progress of young people up until the end of year 13.

All Managers are trained Designated Safeguarding Leads.