Harrow's Early Help Offer
Welcome to 0 - 25 Offer
During your pregnancy and throughout your child’s life journey, Harrow Council can offer your family support. We work with your family to identify and support your needs as they emerge. Here are some of the teams and networks in Harrow to support you and your family:
0-25 years: Early Support Hubs deliver evidence based services and activities tailored to meet the needs of Harrow's children, young people, parents, grandparents, carers and expectent families. We provide these services from a range of venues in Harrow including education settings, the main delivery is through the three family hubs across Harrow: Cedars Hub, Hillview Hub and the Wealdstone Hub - Early Support Hubs
0-19 years: The Harrow Health Visiting and School Nursing Service is a specialist team providing expert advice, support, and interventions to families with children in their first years of life. They help empower parents and carers to make decisions that affect their family's future health and wellbeing - Health visiting service
0-5 years: Harrow Early Years Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) Team supports private, voluntary, and independent nurseries, school nurseries and childminders. They provide advice and practical support around approaches for early identification and intervention for emerging SEN children in all early years settings (SEN Code of Practice 2014) - Harrow Early Years
0-5 years: Harrow Families Information Service (FIS) provide information, advice, guidance and signposting to appropriate services based on the individual needs of families. All the information we provide to families and professionals is free - Families Information Service team
0-5 years: Portage Home Visiting Service is a home teaching programme. It is for pre-school children aged 0-5 years, who are experiencing delayed development and are not in a pre-school/school setting - Portage Home Visiting Service
0-25 years: The Educational Psychology Service works with children and young people with special educational needs or disabilities. It is also for other vulnerable young people such as those in public care, for whom there are concerns about development and progress Educational Psychologist
0-5 years: The Children's Sensory Team works with children and young people with hearing and / or vision impairment from birth to age 25 years. We can work with them in their homes, play-groups, nurseries, schools and colleges Children's Sensory Team
0-5 years: Additional resourced provision. Hillview is a mainstream Nursery School. It has an additionally resourced provision funded by the London Borough of Harrow. The fund is for nursery aged children with moderate to severe complex learning needs and who may be identified as requiring an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHC Plan), when they are of school age. The admission procedure for the resourced provision does not conform to the enrolment and admission procedures for the mainstream nursery.