Issue - meetings

Report of the Director of Children and Family Services updating on the development of 0-19 Prevention and Early Help, attached.

The Board received and noted the report of the Director of Quality and Integration providing an update on the work that had taken place to achieve a more integrated offer of prevention and early help for children 0-19 and their families.  The Board noted that the aim of the 0-19 prevention and early help service offer to bring together a range of health and local authority services to deliver a strengthened prevention and early help offer based around localities, schools and communities which would concentrate on 3 key priorities to provide stronger resilience for families, improved school attendance and engagement and increased emotional wellbeing and resilience.  It was noted that Cabinet would be making a decision on 17^th January 2017 on the preferred option for integration.