Early Help Service

Family support services

For families affected by multiple issues where children aged 0-19 are present

Support offered:

• Targeted support for families affected by multiple issues (i.e. housing, domestic abuse, neglect, mental health, substance misuse)
• Working with families to complete child and family wellbeing assessments, building on strengths and strategies families can use in the future
• 'Team Around the Family' meetings, working with other professionals to support you
• Plans to ensure family progress and help develop wellbeing
• Regular visits 
• Parenting programmes including 'Caring dads'
• Early Help panel - professionals who meet to create bespoke packages of support

How to access Family support services

Contact the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH):

• Phone
  020 8489 4470
• Email
  earlyhelp@haringey.gov.uk

See also:

• Parenting support 
• Family Information Services Directory (FISD)
• Children's Social Care
• Local Safeguarding Children's Board

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Services for young people

For young people aged 10-19 (up to 25 if they have additional support needs)

There are various programmes and services to support young people in Haringey:

• Bruce Grove Youth Space: the centre offers a wide range of informal learning opportunities to enable young people to feel safe, to develop as individuals and to participate, and contribute, as valued members of our community.
• Tailored one to one support for young people.
• Young carers: Regular group activities for young carers aged 11-18.
  • Where: Bruce Grove Youth Space and Alexandra Palace
  • When: Monday and Thursday, 5pm – 7pm
• Contextual Safeguarding team: working with young people and their families where it is identified that there are early indicators that a young person is at risk of exploitation.
• Prevention team: supporting young people at risk of becoming involved in the youth justice system - including out of court disposals (OOCDs).

How to access services for young people

To find out more about the services listed above:

• Visit Youth Space
• Contact MASH:
  • Phone
    020 8489 4470
  • Email
    earlyhelp@haringey.gov.uk

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Children's Centres

For children aged 0-5 and their families

A Children's Centre brings together a range of services for children under five and their families such as family support, health and education.

It includes good quality childcare, information and support across the local community. The idea is to make services easy to use and to give children the best start in life.

There are 9 Children's Centres in Haringey, and 3 of these are managed directly by the council: Triangle, Park Lane and Woodside. 

For more information on the services on offer and how to get involved, please visit our Children's Centres webpages.

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Youth Justice

For children aged 10 to 18 who are at risk of, or involved in offending behaviour

We provide bespoke and targeted support to young people who have offended or are at risk of offending across the borough.

We aim to help young people to stop offending by: 

• helping them to take responsibility for their actions
• supporting them in spending their time in positive ways and by looking at why young people are getting into trouble

For more information and to access this kind of support, visit our dedicated Youth Offending Service (YOS) webpage.

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See also

• Early Help and Prevention Offer
• Haringey Wellbeing Assessment Model
• Haringey Early Help Strategy 2021-23

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