Supporting Families Practice Team
Our team of Senior and Families First Coordinators are available to provide support in all aspects of the Families First Assessment as well as offering support with non open cases and can offer discussions on any queries around Early Help support.
If you’re facing any challenges or need further advice and guidance, please don’t hesitate to contact them. They can help you with a range of issues, including:-
- When and how to initiate a Families First Assessment
- How to complete the Families First Assessment and Action Plan & Review forms
- Ensuring the strengths and views of the whole family including the voice of the child and young person are embedded into the process
- How to create the Team Around the Family - What service to be involved
- Ensuring that Early Help Module tools and processes are used effectively, and with timely reviews
- How to progress the Family First Episode effectively
- Complex cases including those stepped down from Children’s Services
- Follow-on bespoke training in all areas of the Family First Early Help process
- Support you to understand the Family First Episode and Team Around Family process
- Support can be provided by telephone, email and/or one-to-one visits (see contact details below).
- We can attend and facilitate review meetings/Team Around the Family meetings in any of the following circumstances:
- The Key Worker is unfamiliar with the Family First process i.e. new to the process
- The Key Worker is struggling to draw together the relevant professionals
- The Key Worker has concerns around the case.
Below are the contact details for all districts:-
Broxbourne & East Herts & Welwyn/Hatfield
Senior FF Coordinator: Mandi Tsamados
Tel: 01992 555808 Comnet: 25808
mandi.tsamados@hertfordshire.gov.uk
FF Coordinator: Charlotte Saggers
Tel: 01438 843070 Comnet: 53070
charlotte.saggers@hertfordshire.gov.uk
Dacorum &St Albans
Senior FF Coordinator: Helen Whyman
Tel: 01438 844746 Comnet: 54746
helen.whyman1@hertfordshire.gov.uk
FF Coordinator: Sarah Ellis
Tel: 01438 843119 Comnet: 53119
sarah.ellis@hertfordshire.gov.uk
Stevenage & North Herts
Senior FF Coordinator: Suzanne Paisley (Mon – Wed) / Holly Turl (Wed – Fri)
Tel: 01438 843519 Comnet: 53519 / Tel: 01438 843794 Comnet: 53794
suzanne.paisley@hertfordshire.gov.uk / holly.turl@hertfordshire.gov.uk
FF Coordinator: Jackie Brewin
Tel: 01438 844982 Comnet: 54982
jackie.brewin@hertfordshire.gov.uk
Watford & Three Rivers & Hertsmere
Senior FF Coordinator: Shelly Cook
Tel: 01438 843383 Comnet: 53383
Shelly.cook@hertfordshire.gov.uk
FF Coordinator (Mat. Leave until Sept 24) : Jacky Reynolds
Tel: 01438 844097 Comnet: 54097 jacqueline.reynolds@hertfordshire.gov.uk
Countywide
FF Coordinator – Georgina Lusby
Tel: 01438 844269 Comnet: 54269
georgina.lusby@hertfordshire.gov.uk
More information on Families First Assessments and the Early Help Module can be found here: Early Help – information for professionals and partners (hertfordshire.gov.uk)