Early Help Teams

Cumberland Council will be responsible for the areas of Allerdale, Carlisle and Copeland.

Westmorland and Furness Council will be responsible for the areas of Barrow, Eden and South Lakeland.

Cumberland Early Help Team

Mags Moorhead Mags.Moorhead@cumbria.gov.uk  07827 842631

Karen Ross Karen.Ross@cumbria.gov.uk 07885 405708 (Microsoft Teams Calling telephone number 01946 383698)

Bethany Weatherall (Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub) bethany.weatherall@cumbria.gov.uk 07768 542230

Mac Maguire (Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub) Mac.Maguire@cumbria.gov.uk 07500 605449

Ann Crook (Focus Family Community Navigator) ann.crook@cumberland.gov.uk 07887 931242

Early Help Business Support early.help@cumberland.gov.uk 0300 303 3896 

Cumberland Management Team

Andrea King (Assistant Director, Early Help) 

Samantha Starmer (Senior Manager, Early Help and Youth Justice Services) Samantha.Starmer@cumbria.gov.uk 01228 227090

Suzannah Gregson (Early Help Team Manager) Suzannah.Gregson@cumberland.gov.uk 07966 641341 (Microsoft Teams Calling telephone number 01228 236300) 

Westmorland and Furness Early Help Team

Nicola Jackson Nicola.Jackson@cumbria.gov.uk 07825 011005 (Microsoft Teams Calling telephone number 01229 327277)

Rosamund Rowcroft rosamund.rowcroft@cumbria.gov.uk 07920 296122 (Microsoft Teams Calling telephone number 01228 934845)

Steven Kemp (Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub) Steven.Kemp@cumbria.gov.uk 07557 210979 (Microsoft Teams Calling telephone number 01768 206015) 

Early Help Business Support early.help@westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk 0300 373 2723 

Westmorland and Furness Management Team

Lorraine Hopkins (Interim Senior Manager, Early Help) lorraine.hopkins@westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk 07795 169595

Lisa Gledson (Interim Early Help Team Manager) lisa.gledson@cumbria.gov.uk 07825 552732

Have you initiated an Early Help Assessment and don’t know how to register it? 

Are you closing an Early Help Assessment?

Members of the Early Help Team are based within the Cumberland Safeguarding Hub and the Westmorland and Furness Safeguarding Hub and they register all initiated, change of coordinator and closed Early Help Assessments.

Cumberland Early Help Team 0300 303 3896 or email early.help@cumberland.gov.uk

Westmorland and Furness Early Help Team 0300 373 2723 or email early.help@westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk

Where either of the Safeguarding Hubs have screened a contact and it meets the Early Help threshold, you may be contacted by the Early Help Officer based in that Safeguarding Hub.