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The Early Help Advisor team comprises of skilled staff from within the Local Authority Family Matters team who have worked in Wirral for many years with a wealth of knowledge, skills and experience of working directly with families.

Each Wirral school has an Early Help Advisor who will be their single point of contact for Early Help.

Early Help Advisors are embedded into schools to offer support, guidance and signposting at the earliest opportunity to ensure children, young people, and families have access to the most appropriate support.

Early Help Advisors can:

• offer face to face or telephone consultations to schools
• provide signposting and guidance to both schools and families on appropriate services that can be accessed across Wirral
• work with schools to prevent delay and difficulties becoming ongoing, or becoming worse
• arrange meetings with school and parents
• arrange for you to join parenting programmes

Parenting offer

Who’s in charge – a virtual online course for parents to gain extra skills and tools to improve their ability to manage behaviours of children (8 – 18 years old) who are acting abusively towards their parents or beyond their parents’ control. The course is live and is based over eight weeks (with a two month follow up/review after the eighth session)  These are two-hour sessions each week, giving parents an opportunity to interact throughout the sessions including group exercises, discussions, facilitator input and handouts to take parents through an experimental process of attitude and behaviour change.

Handy Hints & Top Tips for Parents with Teens – a virtual online course for parents to gain extra skills, tools, strategies, hints, and tips to improve their parenting skills. The course is live and is based over four weeks. These are 30-minute sessions, giving parents an opportunity to interact at the end of each session and ask any questions they may have.

Handy Hints & Top Tips for Parents with Children – a virtual online course for parents to gain extra skills, tools, strategies, hints, and tips to improve their Parenting skills. The course is live and is based over four weeks. These are 30-minute sessions, giving parents an opportunity to interact at the end of each session and ask any questions they may have.

If you feel that an Early Help Advisor would be able to support your family alongside school, please discuss this with your child’s school.