Early Help Module (EHM)

If after you have searched thoroughly, you cannot find a person on EHM, please contact your Manager to create the person. If your manager is not available you can request it to be created by contacting your nearest Family Wellbeing Centre (to locate your nearest Family Wellbeing Centre go to  www.sefton.gov.uk and enter your postcode under Find my Nearest) or you can email  Early.help@sefton.gcsx.gov.uk, you will need to inform them of the person’s name, date of birth (or age), gender and address as a minimum.

If you are a manager and wish to create a new person, you can do this by clicking on the  “Create New” button on the search screen, any fields in red are mandatory and information must be added.

Adding a person

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• Consent should be sought and recoded on EHM when you first engage with the family (Remember to add who gave consent)
• A new consent statement should be completed whenever there is a change to the team around the family

• A new consent statement should be completed if the family withdraw consent.

On your worktray, choose the group option of “Person” and then click on “Full Caseload” on the right-hand corner of the screen, or click on the tiles screen and view Cases where I am the Lead Practitioner etc. 

Click on the Active Episode box on the EHM Pathway, then click on the Decision Tab.  Click ‘Start’ next to Episode Completed and enter the date of the closure or click on today’s date.

Confirm that you wish to close the episode and start the episode closure form, ensure you select to copy forward from the episode start form.

Any team around the family meeting (TAF) should be recorded from within the meeting process screen on EHM.

To add the date, time and venue selected 'Update Meeting Details and Scheduling'.

To record who attended the meeting select 'Add Attendee'.

To record the action plan and meeting outcomes select 'meeting Held – Write up Outcomes' and complete the Action Plan and Review form.

• Access Account from the menu bar

• Select "Security Questions"

• Amend your security questions and Answers, to save the changes select "Update"

To set up a meeting for more than one child ensure all children are part of the episode and then click on the “Active Episode” section of the pathway, click on the “Decisions” tab and select “Organise next meeting”.

Click on the spanner icon on the worktray menu and select “Tray Publications”

In update relationships tick the box that says “Do NOT print this relationship in forms”

Case notes should be used to record any communication with the family or other practitioners working with the family.

Case notes should NOT be used to record:

• that an episode should be closed; or
• information already recoded elsewhere e.g. information incorporated in the action plan or meeting outcomes form.