Agenda item - Early Help and the Stronger Families, Stronger Communities Programme

Report of the Assistant Director, Stronger Families, Youth & Communities (copy attached).

49.1    This item was introduced by Steve Barton, Assistant Director, Children’s Services.

49.2    RESOLVED – that the Board:

(a) agrees to proceed with the next stage of the strategy to inform the redesign, commissioning and decommissioning of early help services for families;

(b) supports the council’s decision to become an ‘early starter’ for the expanded Troubled Families programme;

(c) agrees to hold discussions about opportunities presented by the new ‘health offer’ developed by the national troubled Families unit to support the expanded programme.