Tier 3 Targeted Early Help assessment

What is Tier 3 Targeted Early Help?

Sometimes, family challenges become complex, and families need extra support from multiple agencies or organisations.

Steps to Complete a Tier 3 Targeted Early Help assessment

  • Get Consent: Families must agree to the support and give consent to share their information.
  • Complete the Tier 3 Targeted Early Help assessment: Once consent is given, a professional can complete the Targeted Early Help Assessment.

How to Complete a Tier 3 Targeted Early Help assessment

If you are a professional and want to complete a Tier 3 Targeted Early Help assessment, follow these steps:

  1. Contact Children's Services: Call 01983 823435
  2. More information can be found on the Isle of Wight Safeguarding Children Partnership website

Tier 3 Targeted Early Help assessment process

Information Review: The Isle of Wight Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH) will review the information you share.

Decision: They will decide if a Tier 3 Targeted Early Help assessment is needed or if another type of support is better.

Outcome: You will be contacted with the decision and may be assigned as the lead worker for the assessment.

Complete the Assessment: Use Early Help and Prevention data warehouse, to complete the assessment within 1 month.

Team around the family meetings (TAF): The first of these meetings must be held by the team within 1 month of completing the assessment. This ensures everyone is clear on their actions and the support is progressing. Continue meetings every 12 weeks until the family's needs are met. Meetings continue even if a Social Worker is involved, unless they ask for a postponement.

Training and consent

Training: each professional needing access to Sentinel will need attend a short training session.

Consent: You need to sign the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) before access will be granted to Early Help and Prevention data warehouse.

Thresholds for Children's Social Care intervention

Each Local Safeguarding Childrens Partnership (LSCP) has produced a document setting out the Thresholds for Children's Social Care intervention.

The term 'threshold' refers to the point at which the local authority's Children's Social Care have a legal remit to work with a family to meet the child and family needs.

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