Gloucestershire's five key principles of the Graduated Pathway

The Early Intervention & Community Team offers advice, guidance and support to practitioners working with children and families around all aspects of using the Earliest Support Pathway. Click HERE for more information.

Family, Community & Education Advisors can support practitioners with Team Around the Family meetings, developing plans and assessments and commissioning services to meet children’s needs. They also offer training and more information can be found HERE.

Family, Community & Education Advisors work on a locality basis and can be contacted by using the numbers and email addresses below:

Cheltenham	01452 328160	cheltenhamearlyhelp@gloucestershire.gov.uk
Cotswolds	01452 328101	cotswoldsearlyhelp@gloucestershire.gov.uk
Forest of Dean	01452 328048	forestofdeanearlyhelp@gloucestershire.gov.uk
Gloucester	01452 328071	gloucesterearlyhelp@gloucestershire.gov.uk
Stroud	01452 328130	stroudearlyhelp@gloucestershire.gov.uk
Tewkesbury	01452 328250	tewkesburyearlyhelp@gloucestershire.gov.uk

Community Social Workers are qualified social workers working in Early Intervention and Community Teams whose role is to directly support practitioners in the community (including those from statutory, non-statutory, and voluntary agencies) working with children and families.

Community Social Workers can support you to reflect on your worries, explore what needs to happen next, and complete a follow-up conversation with you at a later date to ensure that you feel confident in completing agreed actions, as well as provide you with any support you may require around this. Community Social Workers can also work alongside practitioners who are part of a Team Around the Family (TAF) where there are concerns that the risk is increasing, where there are multiple needs which are not being met or there is a particularly complex situation to address. Community Social Workers aim to respond within 2 working days, so should not be used where the concerns are urgent. Community Social Worker advice can be requested by calling the Professional Advice line on 01452 427070 Monday to Friday 08.30 - 16.30

If you have safeguarding concerns which are of an urgent nature, please continue to call Gloucestershire MASH on 01452 426565 and select option 3.

Each locality in the county has a named Community Social Worker:

Cheltenham	Rohenna Begum	01452 382649 / 07795127452 Rohenna.Begum@Gloucestershire.gov.uk
Cotswolds	Haydn Wells	01452 328248 / 07876817932 Haydn.Wells@Gloucestershire.gov.uk
Forest of Dean	Kiera Shortman	01452 328854 / 07765416109 Keira.Shortman@gloucestershire.gov.uk
Gloucester	Brian Devers-Martin	01452 583762 / 07899994759 Brian.Devers-martin@gloucestershire.gov.uk
Stroud	Stephenie Risden	01452 328249 / 07500072949 Stephanie.Risden@gloucestershire.gov.uk
Tewkesbury	Amy Woodward	01452 425772 / 07436646821 Amy.Woodward@gloucestershire.gov.uk

If you are worried about neglect:

The Community Social Work Team also take a lead in supporting practitioners in the community to effectively use the Gloucestershire Child Neglect Toolkit to assist with the early identification of children and young people at risk of neglect.

Please click here to find out more about neglect, how to complete the Neglect Toolkit and how the Community Social Work team can support you, or call us if you wish to have a conversation.