Early Intervention & Prevent Support for Families

The service will provide services which integrate with the Healthy Child Programme and contribute to the achievement of High Impact Areas via services that are universal in reach but targeted at level of need.

The service also supports broader council priorities beyond public health, including school readiness.

The Fresh Futures focus is for 'Early Intervention and Prevention' for children, young people, parents and their families specifically through:

• Facilitation and management of national Healthy Start scheme
• Delivery of Safety in the Home interventions
• Childhood Accident Prevention e-Learning

In scope of the 'Early Intervention and Prevention' contract are the following elements

1 The national Healthy Start Scheme for Kirklees (Get help to buy food and milk (Healthy Start).

• Ensuring those in receipt of the Healthy Start Voucher can access the Healthy Start Vitamins.
• Promotion/communication of vouchers and vitamin provision.
• Utilisation of community-based activities for promotion and engagement with the scheme e.g. Community Champion model.
• Ordering of vitamins and subsequent distribution and availability through accessible referral networks and venues.
• Register of distributers, distribution breakdown and data recorded and submitted. Distribution reimbursement pathways followed.
• Attendance at local, regional and national meetings
• Monitoring of data and performance, and sharing with commissioners.

2 Safety in the Home (Childhood Accident Prevention) programme.

• Provide the Safety in the Home equipment and information scheme to 317 identified and/or vulnerable families meeting the relevant criteria per annum.
• Raise awareness of the scheme with relevant professionals, including criteria-based referral process.
• Provision and fitting of Safety in the Home equipment by appropriately qualified team.

3 Online Childhood Accident Prevention training.

• Provision of an online Child Accident E-learning module for parents and professionals, including access, updates and maintenance of the module.
• Module to support identification of risks that are common causes of childhood accidents, understand steps to take to reduce identified risks, support families to make changes to keep children safe.