Issue - meetings

  Report CEF23022

The report provided an annual update on the work of Early Intervention and Support Services.

Early Intervention and Family Support Services encompassed both statutory and non-statutory services and acted as the Local Authority’s lead for Bromley’s Support Families work.  A wide range of services were delivered including Children and Family Centres, Bromley Children Project Family Support and Parenting Practitioner Team, the Parenting offer and the Common Assessment Framework Team.  Responsibility for Domestic Violence and Abuse work no longer fell within this service after being transferred to the Public Protection and Enforcement Portfolio during the 2022/23 municipal year.

In discussion, Members welcomed many aspects of Early Intervention and Family Support Services including the work of the Independent Volunteer Service and the Social Communications Family Support Coordinator.  A Member queried whether Early Intervention and Family Support e-Flip Books 2023 were available in audio or alternative language format.  The Head of Service: Early Intervention and Family Support Services advised that whilst there was a wide offering on the Service’s YouTube site, this did not include the Early Intervention and Family Support e-Flip Books 2023 as these had their own web address and were also directly accessible via QR codes.  The Service’s two websites, www.bromleyparentinghub.info and www.bromleyiass.org.uk, already had multi-language functionality and work was underway to further improve accessibility of the Service’s content, including with audio files.  Another Member congratulated the service on its nomination and shortlisting as a finalist of the prestigious national Children and Young People Now Award for Early Invention. 

RESOLVED: That the Portfolio Holder be recommended to endorse the annual update.