🌱 Brooklands School Early Help Offer

At Brooklands School, we are committed to supporting every child and family. Our Early Help Offer is designed to provide timely, tailored support to help children thrive emotionally, socially, and academically. We work in partnership with families, professionals, and the wider community to ensure that every child has the opportunity to succeed.

🧩 What is Early Help?

Early Help is about identifying and responding to needs as soon as they emerge. It can be provided at any point in a child’s life and is designed to prevent issues from escalating. At Brooklands, Early Help is part of our whole-school approach to wellbeing and inclusion.

🧠 Our Early Help Support Pathways

We offer a graduated response to meet the needs of our pupils and families:

🔹 Universal Support (Available to All)

• Brooklands Connect: Our parents’/carers coffee mornings led by our home school link worker team offering advice, signposting, and regular coffee mornings
• Website Resources: Sleep training, toileting support, and communication strategies
• Trained Staff: All staff are trained in de-escalation (CPI), communication strategies, and SEND approaches
• Health Team Advice: Access to school nurse and health professionals
• Extra OT Input: Universal occupational therapy support bought into school

🔹 Targeted Support (For Identified Needs)

• Behaviour Team: In-school support for emotional regulation and behaviour strategies, this includes collaborative working between the school ELSA and behaviour leads at both sites.
• Primary Mental Health Team can offer signposting, support and referral advice
• Home School Link Worker practical support: Support with sleep, toileting, and communication
• STL Support: Specialist Teaching and Learning support in class
• Therapy support from Occupational and Physiotherapists determined by provision specified in EHCPs.

🔹 Intensive Support

• ELSA (Emotional Literacy Support Assistant): 1:1 and small group sessions
• Block of intensive support from our Home School Link Worker: Personalised plans and regular communication with families
• Social Care Involvement: Liaison with social workers and family support services
• External Agencies: Referrals to CAMHS, paediatricians, and other professionals
• Multi-Agency Meetings: Coordinated support through Team Around the Child (TAC) or Early Help Assessments

🤝 Working Together

We believe that strong relationships with families are key to successful outcomes. Our Early Help Offer is built on:

• Trust and collaboration
• Clear communication
• Respect for each family’s unique circumstances

If you feel your child or family would benefit from Early Help, please speak to your class teacher or the school office who will pass the information on.