Early Help - Contact, Consultancy, Advice and Guidance

Early Help - Consultancy, Advice and Guidance

Early Help Area Officers within the Family Help - Partnership and Assurance Team, provide Early Help consultancy to support any agency undertaking Early Help work. Early Help consultancy includes:

  • being the first point of contact for advice and guidance, when an agency is unclear if a contact needs to be made to the Cumberland Childrens Advice Support Service
  • advising if the child or family is already open to a children and families services
  • supporting others to complete an Early Help Assessment.
  • supporting Early Help Lead Practitioners across the partnership around our strengths-based approach to the effective delivery of Early Help through briefings, workforce development, information, advice and guidance
  • providing support and challenge to agencies completing Early Help Assessment to ensure that the work they are completing, alongside children and families, has significant and sustained impact
  • identifying and address any drift and delay in Early Help support coordinated by partner agencies.

Cumberland Family Help - Partnership & Assurance Team. Early Help Officers (EHAO's) 

Contact details of Cumberland Family Help - Partnership & Assurance Team

Early Help Area Officers (EHAO)

Mags Moorhead
Email: Mags.Moorhead@cumbria.gov.uk 
Telephone: 07827 842631

Karen Ross
Email: Karen.Ross@cumbria.gov.uk
Telephone: 07885 405708 (Microsoft Teams Calling telephone number 01946 383698)

Louise Hillary
Email: Louise.Hillary@cumbria.gov.uk
Telephone: 07787 000337 

Early Help Business Support
Email: early.help@cumberland.gov.uk
 

Cumberland Management Team

Samantha Starmer 
Senior Manager, Family Help, Partnership and Youth Justice
Email: Samantha.Starmer@cumbria.gov.uk
 

Suzannah Gregson
Early Help, Families Information Service and Family Community Team Manager
Email: Suzannah.Gregson@cumberland.gov.uk
Telephone: 07966 641341 (Microsoft Teams Calling telephone number 01228 236300)  

Cumberland Early Help Team Email early.help@cumberland.gov.uk

Where the Cumberland Children’s Advice Support Service have screened a contact and it meets the Early Help threshold, you may be contacted by an Early Help Officer based within the Cumberland Children’s Advice Support Service.

For consultation, advice and guidance from the Early Help Team based within the Cumberland Children Advice and Support Service (CCASS) please telephone 0333 2401727.