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Early Support is a national programme to improve the way that services for young children with disabilities in England work with families. It provides a standard framework and a set of materials that can be used in many different circumstances, as well as a set of expectations about how services should work with families. Early Support is relevant to all agencies that provide services for families:
- hospital and clinical settings
- Child Development Centres
- mainstream Early Years settings
- Sure Start children's centres
- a range of specialist support agencies, including portage services
- voluntary organisations.
Early Support promotes services for families and children that:
- work in partnership with parents and carers, so that families are at the heart of discussion and decision-making about their children
- integrate service planning and delivery, particularly when families are in contact with many different people and agencies.
If you are new to the Early Support programme and what it has to offer you, read our New to Early Support page.
For more background information, read the Impact and evaluation, and History pages.
See also Implementing Early Support.
Watch a video about 'A family focussed approach'
A full list of Early Support videos can be viewed on the Videos page.
There is a list of Frequently asked questions that you may find useful.
Download the contents of this page:
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Last updated on 20/08/2009
