Reducing Family Poverty Helping Families

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December 2012 Nick Page & Mat Ainsworth

Aims of this session

• To provide an update on Child Poverty levels in Salford • To explain proposed national changes to measuring Child Poverty • To describe how the Helping Families model of integrated public service delivery can help achieve the city’s aim to reduce family poverty • To explain how Salford is informing Community Budgets work

Child Poverty

The 2010 Salford average for children living in poverty is 28.6%, there has been a slight drop when comparing the 2009 average of 29.2%. The 2010 average for England currently stands at 20.6%, again showing a slight drop from the 2009 average of 21.3% In 2008 this was equivalent to income levels before housing costs of: • £225 per week for a single adult with two dependent children under 14.

• £294 per week for a couple with two dependent children under 14.

This means that families living in poverty may have less than £11 per day per person to buy everything they need.

Ward

Irwell Riverside Langworthy Ordsall Little Hulton Broughton Winton Walkden North Weaste & Seedley Barton Pendlebury

Children in Poverty 2010 % Ward

51.3% Swinton North 48.1% 44.9% 44.4% 40.5% 38.2% Irlam Swinton South Kersal Cadishead Eccles 32.4% 30.7% 30.3% 28.2% Walkden South Claremont Boothstown & Ellenbrook Worsley

%

27.2% 26.9% 22.1% 20.0% 19.5% 19.2% 15.0% 8.6% 5.9% 2.8% CADISHEAD LITTLE HULTON WALKDEN NORTH PENDLEBURY WALKDEN SOUTH BOOTHSTOWN & ELLENBROOK SWINTON NORTH KERSAL WORSLEY WINTON BARTON SWINTON SOUTH CLAREMONT ECCLES IRWELL RIVERSIDE BROUGHTON WEASTE & SEEDLEY LANGWORTHY ORDSALL IRLAM

Children and families are officially considered to be living in poverty if the household is either out of work and in receipt of benefits, or in receipt of tax credits where the reported income is less than 60% median income.

Data Source: HMRC September 2012

Proposed new Child Poverty measures

1. Income & material deprivation 2. Worklessness 3. Unmanageable debt 4. Poor housing 5. Parental skill level 6. Access to quality education 7. Family stability 8. Parental health Salford’s strategy to tackle

family

poverty is based on the multi dimensional nature of poverty and has some synergy with the new proposed measures.

Our strategy and delivery is based upon the need for joined up working around the

whole

family, with shared outcomes across agencies.

• • • Gov’t recognises these dimensions are: interrelated, not exhaustive, and there are others that would be good to include but are difficult to measure e.g. parenting style & skill It is broader than income, but increasing family prosperity is a critical outcome for Salford.

What is Helping Families?

•

Salford

’

s Helping Families programme is

a targeted and joined up approach to supporting families with multiple problems.

• Through Helping Families, the City Council and its partners are

working together to help families

improve economic prosperity; raise aspirations and achievement; make a positive contribution to a safe and stable living environment; and improve long-term life chances for the whole family.

• Helping Families will deliver Salford's commitment to the Department for Communities and Local Government

Troubled Families

programme; to engage and support 835 'troubled families' over the next three years.

Who are we helping?

Helping Families will engage and support Salford families that have problems, including parents not working and children not in school, and causes problems, such as youth crime and anti-social behaviour. In identifying who we work with, families must meet two or more of the following criteria: •Young person(s) involved in crime or member(s) of the family involved in anti‐social

behaviour;

•Child(ren) in the family affected by unauthorised absence or exclusion from school; •Adult(s) in the household out of work and claiming benefits.

We know that families with these problems are also more likely to have other related problems, such as domestic violence, relationship breakdown and poor mental or physical health.

How we know success for families

Helping Families is about working together to ‘turn around the lives’ of families with multiple problems. This means supporting the whole family to

achieve

better outcomes,

sustain

better outcomes and

prevent

problems from repeating.

There are clear success measures linked to the Payment by Results arrangement with government, these are: • • •

Children are attending school; Reduction in anti-social behaviour and Reduction in youth crime; and Parents are moving into work.

Success is measured across the

whole family

. This means that working to tackle problems in isolation is not enough. If outcomes improve for one member of the family but get worse for another member of the family, we will not have succeeded.

How are we helping families?

Helping Families will build on what we know works for families in Salford. That means focused, personalised support for the whole family that draws on the expertise of a multi-agency Team Around the Family and is co-ordinated by a person that the family trusts.

Helping Families Lead Professional

Helping Families Lead Professionals are the main point of contact for the family. They will: co-ordinate a package of support; reduce overlap and duplication; monitor family plan and report to Helping Families Locality Panels.

How is this different to what we do already?

Helping Families will build on the existing skills and assets of practitioners from a range of backgrounds. It is about bringing in expertise from the Team around the Family - not about doing everything on their own. The role of a Helping families Lead Professional is to co-ordinate support for the whole family in a way that helps the family to turn problems around, sustain outcomes and prevent problems from repeating… with any family member.

Helping Families Factor:

“

A whole family approach isn't about a mum in a family going on a parenting course, a 17 year old on a YOT programme and an 8 year old on a behaviour improvement plan. That is just working with different individuals in a household at the same time. Whole family working is about understanding and responding to the rhythms of the family.

”

(practitioner)

Salford Helping Families Delivery Model

Key features: TAF comprises Lead Professional and relevant services as decided by the Locality Panel. Primary functions to work with the family / front line delivery. Data capture via the GM Toolkit. Day to day management of the family done within the TAF via the Lead Professional. Where necessary seek specific funding from Locality Panel to help assist the family.

Performance Reports

Steering Group

- Strategic Overview - Perf Monitoring - Challenge & support

Locality Panels

- Case allocation - Performance monitoring The Troubled Families Cohort TAF LP North TAF TAF TAF LP South TAF LP West LP Central LP East Central TAF TAF

Teams Around The Family

- Operational Delivery TAF TAF TAF TAF TAF TAF TAF TAF

GM Toolkits available on SharePoint

Data Interventions: Including but not limited to: BIT, Family Group Conference, Evidence Based Parenting, Children's Centres, Domestic Violence, Strengthening Families, Drugs & Alcohol, Family & Adult Learning, Legacy Future Jobs Fund Services: Including but not limited to: IYSS, Childrens Services (EIP, Housing Officers, Skills & Work Officers, EWOs, Family Support Workers).

Key aims and benefits of Helping Families

Aims

Support the family to independence; Look at the whole family context;

Benefits

Tackling the cost of dependency – the cost to families and the cost to public services; Resolve issues at earliest opportunity; Better long-term outcomes for families; Be family driven not service driven; Reducing demand for public services; Identify a lead worker/ family broker; Removing duplication to realise financial savings for public services; Simplify the system.

Opportunity to build workforce capacity.

• • •

Community Budgets & Troubled Families

First phase of the pilot finished 31 Salford, Stockport and Oldham; st Oct and a Troubled Families business case has been submitted detailing, for the 4 exemplar areas of Manchester, The new delivery models Changes required to deliver the models - cultural, organisational, financial Aggregated Cost Benefit Analysis estimated costs £138m v £224m benefits

The ‘Asks’ of Govt

Work with DWP and BIS on Investment Agreements that allow GM to benefit from financial savings from increasing employment levels.

If the pilot proves effective then rapidly scale up and roll out to a wider range of key outcomes for govt and expand focus to prevention and early intervention Govt & national inspection agencies approach to public service delivery – OFSTED, HMIC – to amend their inspection arrangements to reflect the new

Salford approach: improving the way we do business through cooperation & integration

Joining up delivery for families Joining up our investments

Integrated delivery of effective interventions Joint investment Systems and organisational culture

Reforms to intelligence, information management, workforce capability etc...

Questions