Early Intervention

 Youth and Family Service

Providing early intervention for emerging difficulties

What is the Youth and Family Service?

There are 4 local Youth and Family Teams, each based in one of Tameside's local areas: 

• Ashton
• Stalybridge / Dukinfield / Mossley
• Hyde / Hattersley / Longdendale
• Denton / Droylsden / Audenshaw

Each team contains a mix of professionals from backgrounds including youth work, early years work, community development, mental health, health visiting, education welfare and psychology and school behaviour support.

What do they support? 

The Youth and Family Service provides short-term interventions for children and young people who have already had some universal and "universal plus" targeted intervention, where unmet needs that have been identified through the completion of a CAF, require a multi-agency response.  The service aims to increase capacity and resilience in families, schools and communities.

How can I contact my local team?

All requests for the service should be made to the Families Information Service by ringing 0161 342 5434

Who can ask for a service?

People who are working with children, young people and families can ask for a service, if they have identified through completion of a CAF that there is unmet need which requires a multi-agency approach.

Parents can also contact the Families Information Service.  If it is considered that an intervention from the Youth and Family Service may be appropriate, then it will be expected that the first action of the intervention will be the completion of a CAF in partnership with the main agency involved with the child, young person or family.