Early Help Assessments (EHA)

An Early Help Assessment is a voluntary process and therefore parents, and children, (where appropriate), should be fully engaged in the process and their voices central to the assessment an action plan to identify what is working well, what the worries are and what wellbeing will look like?  A clear plan will be developed with the family which will be SMART and focused on what success will look like for the child/ren. Consent must be given.

Any professional from a service that supports families can initiate an Early Help Assessment and can be carried out with any child or young person from pre-birth up to age 19 and up to the age of 25 if the young person has a learning difficulty or disability, (SEND). The completion of an EHA would bring various agencies and the family network together.