Our Shared Commitment
All services provide an early help offer to children, young people and their families. Coventry have a responsibility to identify and assess needs, through effective conversations with children, young people and their families and planning with them to address these needs.
Early Help partners recognise that by working effectively with each other, outcomes for Coventry’s children and their families can be improved further. A range of professionals from across public service organizations (statutory and VCS) have been involved in the development and completion of this strategy, and collectively we will share responsibility and accountability for its implementation.
Service Senior officer responsible for implementation
- Central England Law Centre: Emma Bates, Programme Manager
- Citizen Housing: Clare Garner, Head of Allocations and Lettings
- Citizens Advice: Helen Barber, Project Manager
- Coventry & Warwickshire Partnership Trust: Penny Wilson, Lead Named Nurse for Safeguarding
- Coventry Children’s Safeguarding Partnership: Rebekah Eaves, Business Manager
- Coventry City Council / West Midlands Police: Caroline Ryder, Violence Prevention Programme Manager
- Coventry City Council Adult Education Service: Judy Hallam, Senior Lead
- Coventry City Council Children’s Services: Chris Heeley, Strategic Lead for Help & Protection
- Coventry City Council Early Years Education: Amanda King, Senior Advisor Birth – 5 years
- Coventry City Council Education: Rachael Sugars, Head of Education, Improvement & Standards
- Coventry City Council Employment & Skills: Glen Smailes, Business Development Manager
- Coventry City Council Housing & Homelessness: Jim Crawshaw, Head of Housing & Homelessness
- Coventry City Council Prevent: Viv Brosnahan, Prevent Education Officer
- Coventry City Council SEND: Jeanette Essex, Head of SEND and Specialist Services
- Coventry Haven: Elaine Yates, CEO
- Coventry Independent Advice Service: Alan Markey, CEO
- CRASAC: Jenni Muskett, Deputy CEO
- Department for Work and Pensions: Amanda Williams, Supporting Families Employment Manager
- Groundwork: Maddi Moon, Project Co-ordinator
- Head of Libraries, Advice Health & Information Service: Peter Barnett
- Integrated Care Board: Sharon Michael, Associate Chief Nurse Safeguarding
- NHSE Trauma Vanguard Project: Lynette Parsons, Positive Directions Clinical Consultant Lead
- P3 Housing Charity: Julie Dalton, Service Co-ordinator
- Positive Choices: Sharon Bolesworth, Service Manager
- Prospects: Catherine Burnham, Team Manager
- Public Health: Dr Allison Duggal, Director of Public Health
- Relate Coventry & Warwickshire: Susan Parkes, Service Manager
- Schools (Primary, Secondary, Special)
- Early Help Generic Group Representatives: Louise Kelman, Stoke Heath Primary Darren Clews, Grangehurst Primary Helen Benarous, Templars Primary Pauline MacDonald, St Mary and St Benedicts Primary Isobel Rose, Mount Nod Primary Jane Frankish, Broad Heath Primary Andrew McCorville, Good Shepherd Primary Viviene, McDonald, St Augustines, Primary Matthew Everett, Cardinal Wiseman, Secondary, Laura Morgan, Romero Academy Mark White, Corley Academy Paul Green, Lyng Hall, Secondary
- South Warwickshire Foundation Trust: Charlotte Finlayson, General Manager
- University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire Midwifery: Gaynor Armstrong, Director of Midwifery
- Valley House: Caroline Pike, Director of Operations
- West Midlands Police: Peter Henrick, Chief Superintendent
- Youth Offending Service: Nicholas Jeffreys, Operational Lead