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Priority Families Programme –
Where we have got to so
far….
Nick Gower Johnson
October 2013
[email protected] 01926 742642
www.warwickshire.gov.uk/priorityfamilies
Troubled (Priority) Families – Tough Work for all of us…….. Do
you remember this Quote from 2012 ????
‘This is a job that is not for the faint-hearted.. You will be at the forefront
of this push to bring about real change in families’ lives ….
The aim of the Programme is to change the lives of families
who have many problems and indeed cause many problems in
their local area… they also cost cash-strapped services a lot of money
just to contain them in a mess, rather than getting to the root causes of
what’s going wrong for them as a family’
Louise Casey Director General of the Troubled Families Unit
What Does Success Look Like ……….?
• Reduction in Crime and Anti Social Behaviour
• Children Back in School
• Parents back in work or more ‘work – ready’
• Big cuts in costs to the state
The Five Family Intervention Factors
• Dedicated Workers – Dedicated to Families
• Practical Hands on Support
• A persistent, assertive and challenging approach
• Considering the family as a whole
• A common purpose and agreed action
Priority Families – The Main Programme
• Priority Families is a Programme and NOT a service. Main source of
funding is via DCLG Troubled Families Programme
• DWP Programme ……………………?
• Over three years 1.4.12 – 31.3.2015 BUT will be extended for a
further 12 months to 2016 and maybe beyond….
• delivered through and by local authorities with additional resources
from Government and Payment by Results rewards with a focus on
‘turning round the lives’ of 120,000 families nationally / 805 families
in Warwickshire.
• Key Worker to ‘Grip the Family’ and provide both assertive
challenge and support using the 5 intervention factors
Priority Families - The Warwickshire Numbers
• 805 families to be worked with over three years - up to April 2015.
• Of these assumed that one sixth (134 families) will be worked with
via the DWP Programme or otherwise
• Leaves 671 families to be identified and worked with via the DCLG
Programme. Commitment to ‘start work with’ 250 families in year 1
(by 31 3 2013) – and then 335 in Year 2, and 86 in Year 3
• Families are identified through 3 national criteria or 2 national
criteria and 1 from a list of local criteria
• ‘Family’ = Undefined and for local interpretation = ‘Household’
DCLG Programme - National Criteria
Figure 2: Government criteria for identifying ‘Troubled Families’
• Households with 1 or more child with a proven offence in the last 12 months; and/or,
• Households where 1 or more member has been involved in anti-social behaviour in the last 12 months *
• Households which also have an
adult on DWP out of work
benefits (Employment and
Support Allowance, Incapacity
Benefit, Carer’s Allowance,
Income Support and/or
Jobseekers Allowance, Severe
Disablement Allowance).
Crime or antisocial
behaviour
Out of
work***
Poor
educational
outcomes
• A child has been subject to
permanent exclusion; three or more
fixed school exclusions across the last
3 consecutive terms; or,
• Is in a PRU or alternative provision
because they have previously been
excluded; or, is not on a school roll;
and/or
• A child has had 15% unauthorised
absences** or more from school
across the last 3 consecutive terms.
Our ‘Troubled Families’ are:
•All those families who meet all three of these dimensions; plus,
•Any families who meet two of the dimensions and our local discretion filter
•By implication, some of these Troubled Families may not have dependent children in them. However, the Payment by Results
approach has an emphasis on child-centred outcomes (e.g., improved attendance; ‘reduction in offending rate by minors’)
*
**
***
Source:
A range of measures are suggested, but local discretion is advised
We intend to use 15% absence to measure this
This dimension should be considered after the other two have been considered, and for those household who meet one or two of the other
dimensions, for data sharing reasons
CLG
Half Way Through the Programme – what have WE achieved so
far………………………….?
•
Identified the Families and working with / have worked with at least half of
them (current figure is 413 families)
•
Programme is in a sound financial position (All attachment fees paid and
Payment by Results coming on stream)
•
Added to the capacity of existing services
•
Set up governance, partnership and networking arrangements – countywide
& local
•
Agreeing evaluation criteria and looking at sustaining the Programme
beyond 2015 / 2016
•
Got a great team together and sustained and improved partnerships
internal & external
Identifying & Working With the Families – the story so far………..
Through gradual cross match with local criteria & referrals to the Programme
we have now identified at least 928 families (15% MORE than the required
number of families) that fit 2 national criteria + at least 1 local criterion and
should therefore attach to the Programme
Of these families we have or are currently working with /have worked with at
least 413 families (51% of the target number)
So far we have made a successful claim for Payment by Results funding in
respect of 46 families and hope to add a further 100 to this during this
month….. Please collectively cross your fingers!!
Where do our Priority Families Live…….? The story so far..
Of the 928 families:
North Warwickshire
Nuneaton & Bedworth
Rugby
Warwick
Stratford Upon Avon
Out of County / Unknown
48
466
169
138
77
30
5%
50%
18%
15%
8%
3%
Resourcing the Work (1)
•
Priority Families is NOT ‘yet another service’ – it is about better supporting /
enhancing /coordinating what we already have that we know works well.
•
Ensuring that there is greater capacity ‘within the system’ - especially Key
Worker Support via Family Intervention Project (9 extra workers) Family
Support Work via Family Support and Parenting (8 extra workers) and
support for the CAF process, ACE Team (School Attendance) and Youth
Justice / Family Intervention
•
Ensuring that there are adequate management support and supervision
arrangements in place for front-line staff (this is highly demanding and
taxing work – especially at the ‘hard-end’)
•
Identifying and helping to resource the range of interventions likely to be
required over and above those that are currently readily available to
families.
Resourcing the Work (2)
Year
No of Families to
start work with
2012/1 250
3
2013/1 335
4
2014/1 86
5
Total
671
Up front
funding
(Attachment
Fees)
£
800,000
Payment
by Results
(Maximum)
£
Total
£
200,000
1,000,000
780,000
536,000
1,316,000
137,600
206,400
344,000
1,717,600
942,400
2,660,000
Key Work over the next few months
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Taking forward the Local Coordinating Groups (LCG) One per District / Area)
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Camp Hill LCG (agreed yesterday that this will be fulfilled by PinCH / Camp Hill
Partnership) and moves towards more local management arrangements elsewhere
too…
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Attaching Families to the Programme and ‘Getting on with it’ – Key target of working
with / have worked with 470 families by 1 1 14
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Continuing to support the Family Support Workers & the DWP seconded worker
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Establishing our Case Management System, Evaluation arrangements and
enhancing data / intelligence collection
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Closer links with schools, parts of Health and other key partners
•
Getting towards our financial target for Payment by Results funding & securing the
finances for the Programme beyond 2015
In Conclusion ……….
In spite of all these words, none of us should
forget why we are doing what we are
doing……………..