Transcript Children & Young People’s Trust Board

Working Together With Families :
Making that difference
Gail Porter
Programme Director
Working Together With Families ambition
• Lancashire’s corporate commitment to radically
improve the resilience, experience, and outcomes
of families who access and use services across
Lancashire
• Lancashire’s Children and Young People’s Trust
strategic focus on transforming the way services are
delivered to the most complex families, by dealing
with issues sooner in a more coordinated way, to
achieve better outcomes.
Working Together With Families approach
• The new approach focuses on increasing a family’s
resilience and resourcefulness, and reducing their
risk and dependency.
• It builds on existing practice including family group
conferencing, vulnerable adolescence, and Family
Intervention projects, etc.
• It recognises the ‘mixed economy’ of provision and
includes the commissioning of the 3rd sector to
work directly with families to prevent children
coming into care.
Working Together With Families approach
• Strategic – leading a new model of partnership working with families at the heart - to reduce duplication and repeat
demands on services and release resources for investment
elsewhere including in early support;
• Operational – delivering demonstration models in 4 districts
to test out what works best with families with complex
needs, and examining the added value of 3rd sector
provision;
• Cultural – championing a fundamental shift in the way
public sector professionals work with families ('done with,
not done to') and identifying the workforce development
required to embed changes to working practice.
Working Together With Families activity
• County-wide Governance Group & Delivery Group
• Strategic leads with local management groups in
each of the 4 districts
• Narrative
• Outcomes framework
• Minimum of 5 families in each district, with 3
control families: partnership nomination criteria
• ‘Route map’ for working with families – CAF, TAF,
self-assessment, family cost calculator tool, etc
Working Together With Families activity
Workforce development:
• Role of the lead professional – current versus
future role, responsibilities and actual experience
on the ground, budget holding role, support and
development requirements?
• Working with families – behaviours and skills
needed to work effectively with families and embed
independence. What do we have in place now and
what do we need for the future?
Working Together With Families timetable
Jan – March 2012:
• Delivery
• Review and evaluation
• What works and what
doesn’t
April – August 2012:
• Planning for rollout
• Resourcing
• Fine tuning the tools
September 2012:
• District rollout?
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The strategic context – how does it all fit in?
Leadership
Young
Persons Trust
Board and
Children and YoungChildren
People’sand
Trust
Board
Governance
Safer Lancashire
Board
Lancashire Safeguarding
Children Board
Local Criminal Justice Board
Safer Lancashire Board
Early Support
Transforming Service Delivery
Integrated Offender Management
etc
Strategy &
Policy
Review of Common Assessment Framework
(CAF)
Review of Continuum of Need,
Operational
Service mapping
European Social Fund (ESF) Families & ESF NEET
Programme
etc
Working Together - Differently With Families
Health and Wellbeing Board
Police Crime Commissioner
Munro review
Transforming Care Services
Troubled Families Unit
etc
Vulnerable Adolescents Review
of CAPSS and Children’s
Centres
Best Start
Multi-Agency Safeguarding
Hubs (MASH)
etc