Early Help Assessment

Request

Could you please let me know the average time it takes for a request for an Early Help Assessment (received from a recognised profession - school, health, GP etc) to be processed in your authority and whether your authority reports this and if it does report on this, where does this get reported into please?

Decision

Lincolnshire County Council (LCC) can advise that there isn’t a statutory timescale for this, but our aim to process these requests through the Early Help Front Door is 3 days.

This isn’t something LCC report on currently

Reference number
FOI 14399526
Date request received
10/11/25
Date of decision
05/01/26