Your views needed to shape our support for families in Sandwell

Sandwell Early Help Partnership - comprising many local agencies, community organisations, schools, health partners, police and fire services, Sandwell Council and Sandwell Childrens Trust - is currently reviewing and reflecting on how we all work together to support children and families in Sandwell.

If you support or work with children, young people or families in the borough - in whatever capacity, from sports to leisure, skills development, advice, wellbeing support or more specialist interventions - then we would love to hear from you on what you think would make a greater difference in our partnership working in the coming years.

Your views will help to shape a new Early Help Strategy for Sandwell, launched this Spring 2021, to ensure we can all play our part giving families the support at the right time for a better now and a better future.

All information you share with us will be kept STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL to SCVO (who are running the survey). Only summary findings will be shared with partners to inform our strategy discussions.

For further information on the Sandwell Early Help Partnership or if you have any questions about this survey please contact Angel Lakha on 07587 136072 or earlyhelp@scvo.info

THANK YOU

ABOUT YOU AND YOUR ORGANISATION

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* 1. Name of group/ organisation/ school

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* 2. Your name (optional)

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* 3. Your role

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* 4. Is your organisation...

A school

A community group/ voluntary organisation/ charity

Sandwell Council

Sandwell Childrens Trust

Police or Fire

A health service provider

Commercial organisation

Other (please specify)

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* 5. Does your organisation... (tick all that apply)

Deliver support for children and/or young people?

Deliver support for parents/ guardians?

Signpost to other agencies?

Deliver ‘universal’ activities (open door, for all)?

Deliver ‘targeted’ services (for identified individuals, via referral)?

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* 6. Is your organisation a member of the Sandwell Early Help Partnership?

Yes

Not sure

What's the Early Help Partnership?

HOW YOU WORK IN PARTNERSHIP TO SUPPORT CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND FAMILIES

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* 7. Do you have contact, or working partnerships, with any of the following organisations?

	No contact	Occasional contact	Regular contact or working together
Schools	Schools No contact	Schools Occasional contact	Schools Regular contact or working together
Voluntary/ community groups or charities	Voluntary/ community groups or charities No contact	Voluntary/ community groups or charities Occasional contact	Voluntary/ community groups or charities Regular contact or working together
Sandwell Council	Sandwell Council No contact	Sandwell Council Occasional contact	Sandwell Council Regular contact or working together
Sandwell Childrens Trust	Sandwell Childrens Trust No contact	Sandwell Childrens Trust Occasional contact	Sandwell Childrens Trust Regular contact or working together
Police	Police No contact	Police Occasional contact	Police Regular contact or working together
Fire Service	Fire Service No contact	Fire Service Occasional contact	Fire Service Regular contact or working together
Health services (eg hospital, mental health, community health staff)	Health services (eg hospital, mental health, community health staff) No contact	Health services (eg hospital, mental health, community health staff) Occasional contact	Health services (eg hospital, mental health, community health staff) Regular contact or working together

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* 8. Where do you go to in order to access staff training to support children, young people or families better?

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* 9. Where/ who do you go to when you need to seek information, advice or guidance about your work with children, young people or families?

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* 10. Where do you go to when you need/ want to find another agency or organisation to help support a child, young person or family?

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* 11. What best describes your organisation’s approach to the lead professional role?

Our organisation takes on the lead professional role

Our organisation has chosen not to be lead professional

Our organisation would be lead professional if we had more capacity or support

What is a lead professional?

Other (please specify)

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* 12. What best describes your organisation’s approach to the Early Help Assessment?

I /we use Early Help Assessments regularly

I/ we use Early Help Assessments sometimes

I/ we never use Early Help Assessments

What's an Early Help Assessment?

Other (please specify)

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* 13. What best describes your organisation’s approach to the Multi-Agency Assessment Forms (MARFs)?

We regularly use MARFs

We sometimes use MARFs

We've never needed to use a MARF

What's a MARF?

Other (please specify)

WHAT CAN WE DO TO IMPROVE PARTNERSHIP WORKING?

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* 14. If your organisation has engaged in Early Help Partnership activity over recent years, please give us feedback on whether this has helped you... (tick all that apply)

be better informed on current issues and topics facing children and young people

understand better, and share your information and views on, emerging needs and concerns for children and young people

have greater knowledge on other children and family support that you can link with locally

have more productive working relationships with partner organisations

have a wider range of working relationships with partner organisations

Other (please specify)

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* 15. In terms of future partnership activities, what would be valuable to you?

	Would be helpful	Would be really helpful
Opportunities to understanding local provision and develop networks	Opportunities to understanding local provision and develop networks Would be helpful	Opportunities to understanding local provision and develop networks Would be really helpful
Exploring to meet with others and discuss/ learn more about issues of concern for children and families	Exploring to meet with others and discuss/ learn more about issues of concern for children and families Would be helpful	Exploring to meet with others and discuss/ learn more about issues of concern for children and families Would be really helpful
Better links between schools and family provision in the local community	Better links between schools and family provision in the local community Would be helpful	Better links between schools and family provision in the local community Would be really helpful
Support to broker new partnerships and helping partners work together on issues of common concern	Support to broker new partnerships and helping partners work together on issues of common concern Would be helpful	Support to broker new partnerships and helping partners work together on issues of common concern Would be really helpful
Increasing your knowledge of what agencies are out there in Sandwell providing early help	Increasing your knowledge of what agencies are out there in Sandwell providing early help Would be helpful	Increasing your knowledge of what agencies are out there in Sandwell providing early help Would be really helpful
Increasing opportunities to showcase what your organisation offers to other agencies	Increasing opportunities to showcase what your organisation offers to other agencies Would be helpful	Increasing opportunities to showcase what your organisation offers to other agencies Would be really helpful
Bringing together and sharing insights and voices of children, young people and families	Bringing together and sharing insights and voices of children, young people and families Would be helpful	Bringing together and sharing insights and voices of children, young people and families Would be really helpful
Building confidence in how we work together in really practical ways	Building confidence in how we work together in really practical ways Would be helpful	Building confidence in how we work together in really practical ways Would be really helpful
Better understanding of formal systems and mechanisms for supporting children and families locally	Better understanding of formal systems and mechanisms for supporting children and families locally Would be helpful	Better understanding of formal systems and mechanisms for supporting children and families locally Would be really helpful
Support to bring the local 'early help offer' directly to parents and young people	Support to bring the local 'early help offer' directly to parents and young people Would be helpful	Support to bring the local 'early help offer' directly to parents and young people Would be really helpful
More time getting to know and understand other local providers	More time getting to know and understand other local providers Would be helpful	More time getting to know and understand other local providers Would be really helpful
Support resolving issues between providers when things go wrong	Support resolving issues between providers when things go wrong Would be helpful	Support resolving issues between providers when things go wrong Would be really helpful

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* 16. What one thing do you think would make the greatest difference to improve our local partnership working for children and young people in Sandwell?

THANK YOU