Early intervention for children, young people and families in Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council is led by the Early Help Board on behalf of the Children's Trust. The local vision is to make Solihull an ‘early help place' by helping families at the earliest point, improving children and young people's life chances and reducing demand for crisis services. This case study forms part of our demand management, Children, young people and families, resource.
The council's vision is built on five principles: causes not symptoms, families and communities can deliver earlier help, lives not services, early childhood help and not all help is equal. The work includes early intervention through schools, and community-focused and led activity. A new coordinated approach to early help was in the process of being developed in summer 2015.