Changes in Children's Social Care and Early Help

Important information for headteachers, SENCOs, pastoral leads and CAF trained personnel so please share within your school

In April 2016, Early Help and Targeted Support and Children's Social Care combined to create a new business unit called Children and Families.

We used this opportunity to redesign some key elements of service delivery to all children, from early help to looked-after children. The key objectives of the changes are to provide a seamless service to children, young people and families and ensure that their needs are better met at the time they arise. Whilst some of the transformation is still ongoing, some will take effect imminently. We would like to give our partners and colleagues in schools an opportunity to hear what has been happening over what has been a very busy couple of months.

In order to both provide information and gain feedback, we have scheduled three days of workshops. Invitations will follow but in the meantime, please save the date. On each day, there will be three two-hour presentations (9.30am, 12.30pm and 3.00pm) to make it as easy as possible for our partners to attend. The workshops are open to all partners and any of them can be attended if your local one is not convenient.

East: Wednesday 21st September: The Conference Room, Bloxham Centre, 8 Somers Road, Rugby, CV22 7DE.

North: Thursday 22nd September: The Beaumont Room, Bulkington Village Hall, School Road, Bulkington, Bedworth, CV12 9JB.

South: Friday 23rd September: Pound Lane Learning Centre, Pound Lane, Leamington Spa, CV32 7RT.

For more information, please feel free to contact Marina Kitchen at marinakitchen@warwickshire.gov.uk.