Welcome to Early Support

Early Support is the Government programme to achieve better co-ordinated, family focused services for young disabled children and their families. It's a national programme that is being introduced and used in local authorities, hospitals and community-based health services across England.

For families A section for parents and carers about what Early Support means for families.

What is Early Support? About the aims of Early Support, which children it supports and how it works.

The bigger picture How Early Support links to other Government initiatives to improve services for children and families.

Impact and evaluation Read about the difference Early Support makes to families and practitioners.

History Early Support began as a pilot in 2003 - read how it developed into a national programme.

  Watch a short video of people talking about their experiences of Early Support.

Keep up to date with Early Support through our regular newsletters.

Early Support builds on existing good practice and provides materials and training to help with service change.