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Supporting Early Intervention

Susanna Carioni | August 30 2022
2 min read

What is early intervention?

Early intervention means identifying and providing effective early support to children and young people who are at risk of poor outcomes. Effective early intervention works to prevent problems from occurring or to tackle them head-on when they do, before problems get worse. It also helps to foster a whole set of personal strengths and skills that prepare a child for adult life.

Saving money, supporting better outcomes

Did you know that, according to researchers, focusing on early intervention could save Councils as much as £7 Billion a year! Imagine how much can be saved if we include schools, fostering providers, children’s residential homes and health and youth justice services.

How Mind Of My Own can support early intervention:

  • Our very own safeguarding tool, the safety link.

The Safety Link triggers an email straight to your organisation or school anytime a child or young person tells you they feel unsafe, scared, or unhappy. Through the child’s statement, you will be able to understand and contextualise their feelings and safeguard them as early as possible.

  • Reaching those ‘harder to reach’, the ReciteMe Toolbar.

Our accessibility toolbar ensures our digital participation tools are fully customisable according to children and young people’s needs; they can increase and decrease the text, and change the font and background colour. For non-English speakers, they can translate our apps into over 100+ languages.

  • Capturing their views on their education, the ‘My Education’ scenario.

Children and young people spend most of their time in school settings, so we co-produced a tool to enable them to explore how they feel about the education they receive and if there are any support services can provide. This feature is a powerful tool as Children in Care are three times more likely to leave school before higher education compared with children outside the care system.

  • Looking to their future, the ‘Planning for Adulthood’ scenario.

Teen years and leaving care can be tense periods for young people, therefore they need as much support as possible. Planning for adulthood helps young people reflect on what are their goals and aspiration for the future so that the adults around them can give them a chance to fulfil their potential. Why this is crucial? The rates of care leavers not in education, employment or training (NEET) show how their life chances are harmed. In every one of England’s regions, the percentage of care leavers recorded as NEET was at least two and a half times greater than the percentage of young NEETs more generally.

We champion and support the use of effective early intervention to improve the lives of children and young people at risk of experiencing poor outcomes. Find out more at hello@mindofmyown.org.uk