Every week, the support advisors and 'community connectors' at Northfield's early help scheme hear stories of families and children right on the edge. Sometimes literally. They've just picked up the ...

Amid rising demand for child protection services over the past decade, early help support for children and families with emerging or less severe problems has been largely left on the political, policy ...

Amid rising knife crime, youth homelessness and care referrals, the case for spending on early help has never been so important, yet investment in prevention services has been falling, fuelling late ...

A rescue plan has been announced to save ten early help projects supporting thousands of struggling families across Birmingham, amid a backlash. The potential loss of support and help for children and ...

Families are missing out on the social work support they need because some early help staff are being given overly complex cases, inspectors have found. Inspections of five areas identified some ...

A review has been launched into getting early help for families before they reach "crisis point" as demand increases for children's services. Stockton Council's people select committee has started the ...

A “morally and economically nonsensical” failure to fund early help means about 64,000 children a year are being re-referred to social care within 12 months of a closed assessment. That was the ...