Families requiring support from Early Help services might be experiencing a range of difficulties including:
- substance misuse issues
- poor physical or mental health
- parenting problems
- unemployment.
Early Help support is delivered by many organisations in Lambeth, including children's centres, schools and local charities.
We also have an in-house team that consists of Early Help advisers, education welfare officers and employment advisers who can support you to tackle your problems.
How to get help
The service is consent led and can be accessed through a referral to the integrated referral hub.
To make a referral, contact us:
- by phone on 0207 926 5555 (24 hours)
- by email at helpandprotection@lambeth.gov.uk or help.protection@lambeth.cjsm.net (secure email).
Professionals
If you're a professional, please call us on 020 7926 3100 to make a referral for Early Help.
You should also follow up your referral in writing by filling in the new multi-agency referral form (MARF) and sending it to the above email.
If you have been using a different assessment framework such as a CAF, then it is important that the assessment currently in use is attached to the MARF to provide increased oversight and rationale for enhanced services from the local authority.