Attend this session to:
• Explore how schools, community organisations and family services can work together as one early help system to improve outcomes for children, young people and families
• Share practical approaches for connecting schools with accessible, sustainable community support that helps families get the right help at the right time
• Celebrate the people, partnerships and practice across Ealing that are strengthening relationships, nurturing the workforce and unlocking support beyond the classroom 

This session will explore the delivery of effective early help services to under-represented communities through culturally responsive and community-led approaches. Delegates will gain practical insight into building trust, increasing engagement and overcoming barriers that prevent families from accessing support. The session will also share key lessons, challenges, and replicable strategies for professionals working to reach marginalised groups.

The Brighton & Hove Family Network Pilot team will share learnings, challenges and experiences from delivering its Wave One Department for Education pilot. This session will explore how flexible and innovative Family Network Funding, used alongside a Family Group Conference, can support and empower families through a solution-focused, “spend to save” approach.

Parenting programmes are a key component of many early help offers. This presentation draws on insights from several recent research and evaluation projects delivered by Cordis Bright for the What Works Centres, Youth Endowment Fund and Foundations. It will explore:
• The challenges in commissioning and delivering evidence-based parenting programmes
• How programmes can be developed, commissioned and delivered in ways that best meet local need

This session will look at the use of the ParentAssess specialist parenting assessment framework in the context of family help. Attend this session to:
 • Learn how to avoid escalation and get the right support at the right time from the start using the new Family Help ParentAssess framework
• Understand how the framework can support practitioners to limit becoming ‘stuck' and avoid the circular loop of family proceedings
• Discuss how to make family support more effective by balancing strengths and risks

Ignite Young Minds is a Community Interest Company with more than 20 years’ experience working with young people, children and families. This session will include the opportunity to hear first-hand from some of the young people it has supported through mentoring and other programmes. This session will:
• Identify barriers causing young people to fall behind and look at targeted early intervention
 • Share practical strategies that improve attendance, confidence and progressive learning
• Define clear partnership actions to strengthen pathways and prevent long-term disengagement from education

The specialist Youth Interventions Team at West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service will share how their targeted work is helping to create safer futures for young people across West Yorkshire. This session will highlight how early intervention, prevention and partnership working can help deter serious youth violence and reduce risk. Delegates will gain insight into the unique and powerful role Fire and Rescue Services can play in improving outcomes for young people and communities.

This talk by world-leading expert on language learning difficulties Margaet Snowling will explore language as the foundation for learning, showing that learning to read involves more than phonics and depends on strong spoken language and understanding. It will examine common risk factors for language and reading difficulties and why some children struggle from the early years of school. Finally, it will show how early screening and targeted support can help identify children who need extra help and improve long term educational outcomes.