Interactive Threshold Tool

  • Level 1
    Universal
    • Needs are being met through universal services. May have additional needs that can be met within existing services.

    • Circumstances and key features
    • Parent/Carer capacity and engagement
    • Family and environment
  • Level 2
    Early Help
    • Has additional needs that can be met through partnership working led by existing service.

    • Circumstances and key features
    • Parent/Carer capacity and engagement
    • Family and environment
  • Level 3
    Early Help
    • Has multiple needs that require an active and coordinated responseĀ involving multi-agency working.

    • Circumstances and risks/key features
    • Parent/Carer capacity and engagement
    • Family and environment
  • Level 4
    Statutory Intervention
    • Has a high level of unmet and complex needs that require statutory intervention or is in need of protection.

    • Circumstances and risks/key features
    • Parent/Carer capacity and engagement
    • Family and environment
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Circumstances and risks/key features

  • Chronic persistent absence, permanent exclusions or no school place/risks entry into the care system
  • Persistent social exclusion
  • Poor attachments
  • Complex/multiple disabilities
  • Complex mental health issues affecting development, Inc. self-harm
  • High level emotional issues and very low self esteem
  • Non-organic failure to thrive
  • Sexually inappropriate behaviour
  • Sexually aggressive behaviour
  • Teenage parent/pregnancy under age 13
  • Sexual abuse including exploitation
  • Drug/alcohol use severely impacting development
  • Frequently missing from home resulting in self-neglect Relationship breakdown
  • Relationship breakdown
  • Offending and in the criminal justice system
  • Unaccompanied minors