About Connect Somerset
Improving early help in the community
Welcome
Connect Somerset is improving early help in the community. Connect Somerset is about all professionals and community groups working together to help families and residents improve their lives.
Connect Somerset is a partnership between Somerset Council, Somerset NHS, Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprises, Schools, Colleges and Early Years settings.
Blueprint for Connect Somerset
The Blueprint for Connect Somerset 2024 to 2030 shows how we want to evolve public sector early help for Somerset families and residents. Improving the early help system in the right way will significantly reduce costs to acute services across care, health, education and justice sectors. As well as having a big impact on the lives of Somerset residents.
Read our Blueprint
Connect Somerset Champions
We have appointed Connect Somerset Champions who are leaders from their communities to reshape public services. This removes barriers and blockers so that professionals can work more easily and closely together.
Improvements to sharing information
We will continue to make improvements to share information across services, so multi-agency professionals and community groups can wrap support around families and residents. And we will bring together databases of local community resources so that they are easier to search. Professionals can then link our most vulnerable families to what makes them more resilient.
Working together and wraparound support
Overall, Connect Somerset is about how we all work together, wrap support around families and residents, and make sure everyone can access the help they need in the community as early as they need it.
Connect Somerset Impact
We are pleased to showcase the fantastic work of Connect Somerset in 2024. Please take a look at the Connect Somerset Impact Report and share.
Read the Connect Somerset Impact ReportSuccess stories
We regularly share key success stories from professionals within your communities, you can either view these on the Neighbourhood Teams webpages or by using the link below.
Easy access to early help
We want to make it easier for families and residents to access the help they need earlier. Families and residents need to be able to access early help when they need it. We have many excellent services, online help and community resources but not everyone knows how to access them. It’s only by helping more families access early help when they need it, that we can help them build their resilience and stop their needs escalating.
More support will be delivered from hubs across the county, with services closer to home and rooted in communities. Local delivery is coordinated from Community hubs which are linked to neighbourhoods, local community networks, primary care networks and social prescribing.
