Integrated early help, education partnership work and implementing the Family Valued programme
Supporting families through offering the right help at the right time with the right people
The Early Help Partnership’s Strategy for 2023 to 2025 outlines our shared vision and ambition for Coventry to be “the best city in the UK for all our children, young people, and their families, to live and grow up in".
We aim for children to be valued, feel safe, be healthy, and have opportunities. Through our Early Help offer, we connect people to provide the right help at the right time with the right people, enabling all children and families to thrive.
Early help is primarily delivered through the 8 Family Hubs across the city. The early help offer operates on a connected partnership basis that brings together statutory services, voluntary and community sector and faith-based organisations.
More recently local businesses have offered support. Integrated working to tackle inequalities and their effect on children, young people and families is mobilised across a wide range of partners by multi-agency Early Help outcome groups - assurance around the collective impact of this work is provided regularly to relevant partnership boards including Coventry Safeguarding Children’s Partnership, Health and Wellbeing Board and Marmot Partnership.
Over 2024 to 2025, targeted early help support provided through the Supporting Families programme helped 1,309 families. The relationship between Early Help and Education continues to be strengthened with joint efforts focusing on activating earlier help across early years, schools and further education. The Family Hub Offer continues to be a national trailblazer with Coventry included in an independent national evaluation of best practice and the work receiving national acclaim.
