What is a children’s centre? Children’s Centres (CCs) support families with children aged 0-5 years (& pre-birth) to achieve the best possible learning, health & wellbeing outcomes in a universal setting with targeted responses for children & families who may require additional support.  Barbara Sampson (Head of Integrated Early Years Service)  Jane Hutcheson (Senior Locality Manager - children’s centres)

Children’s Centre Localities  Hub children’s centre including multiagency family support team base  Children’s Centre

ONE STOP SHOP….universal & targeted services (13,000 children) 5 Hub Children’s Centres (1 in each Locality) Universal Services Midwifery Baby Massage Health Visiting Baby Feeding Groups Free Healthy Start Vitamins Parenting Courses (groups and 1:1) Employability services Welfare rights Services Healthy Eating Workshops Starting Solids, Play4Life (healthy lifestyles course) Stay & Play Drop-ins Story-Telling (early years librarians) Family Learning courses Integrated Multi-agency Family Support Teams: Family Support Workers CAMH Practitioners Speech & Language Therapists Employability Workers Welfare Rights Workers Housing Health Visitors Midwives Internal FSSW Public Health Team Adult & Community Learning Library Service Camden Safety Net HASC Childcare and Early Education Incl. free entitlement & CIN places and Childminders Partners/Joint Working External UCLH & Royal Free (midwifery) CNWL (HVs and Immunisations) BfN Whittington Health Tavistock & Portman Islington Dental Service Voluntary Sector GPs JC Plus PVIs Schools

New Children’s Centre Pathway; 0 – 2 Years Programme Midwives Antenatal classes Ante-natal New Birth Visit by Health Visitors (HVs) CC Registration Baby feeding Groups (CBFT) By 2 weeks after birth Coping with Crying (HVs) Sleep clinics (HVs) - TBC By 8 weeks Little Connections post natal group 4 week (HVs, FSWs)- - Bonding & Attachment Public Health: starting solids 1 – 8 months Baby Massage - 5 week course months Speech and Language stay & play: Babbling Babies Toddler Talk Play Time 8 months- 2 years Nursery education 2 years

Multi-agency, multi-disciplinary locality Family Support teams

Referral and Allocation Process Via e-CAF By phone Self-referral – ask family to go to nearest HUB Centre and ask to speak to a Family Support Worker  Case allocated (team nearest to where family live)  FSWs assess family and child’s needs (home visit)  Letter to network confirming allocation of case and name of FSW  At close of case - Outcomes Summary sent to network  Re-refer at any time

Contacting the Family Support Teams (January 2015) Senior Family Support Manager: Caireen Rice or Team Managers: Kilburn Grange CC (Palmerston Road, NW6 2JL) or Harmood CC (1 Forge Place, NW1 8DQ) or Agar CC ( Wrotham Road, NW1 9SU) or Euston Office (Regent’s Park CC) or a CC (1a Roseberry Avenue, EC1R 4SR) Vacancy; contact or Tel:

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