Transcript Children & Young People’s Trust Board

Working Together With Families
Overview & Context
Supt Richard Spedding
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
Principles:
• Keep It Simple
• Don't re-invent the wheel
• Integrate/ align with existing developments
(national/local) e.g. CAF, Troubled Families, district
CYP Trust commissioning, etc.
• System change, not another initiative
Reduce the Parental/Service Strain
Family Route Map
Baseline
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Criteria
Identify
Need
Engage
With The
Family
Engage
With The
Practitioners
Action
Plan +
Delivery
Review +
Outcomes
Exit
Strategy
What Have We Learnt?
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Family identification challenge
Information sharing
Innovative leadership = a definite!
Risky partners – do those barriers really exist?
Translates CYPT strategy to operational delivery
Communication & confidence = key
Workforce development
Governance and accountability = key to success
Planning and best practice
So – Need to Get Your Ducks in a Row!
Troubled Families Programme
Context: Who are the 120,000
most troubled families?
On the basis of the current definition, the most troubled families have at least five of the following:
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No parent in the family in work
The family lives in poor quality or overcrowded housing;
No parent has a qualification;
The mother has mental health problems;
At least 1 parent has a longstanding limiting illness,
disability or infirmity;
The household income is below the poverty line; and
The family cannot afford a number of food and
clothing items.
These are typically families who have histories of
intergenerational poor educational outcomes,
lows skills and worklessness. The challenge is to
break this cycle and raise the ceiling of ambition for
them.
306k families with children
with behavioural problems
290k families at risk of
severe exclusion
120k families with
5+ disadvantages
50k families with 5+
disadvantages AND
children with
behavioural
problems
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Troubled Families Programme
Background
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Delivery – DCLG offer 40% of the cost of interventions that can help to turn around
the lives of troubled families, payable primarily on the achievement of successful
outcomes.
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Preparation Funding – All upper-tier LA's offered £20k in Feb 2012 to help them
and their partners prepare for the introduction of the new arrangements.
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Defining Troubled Families – Each LA was given an indicative estimate of the
number of ‘troubled families’ in their area.
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Success Measures – Based on the PM’s policy objectives of getting parents into
work, children attending school, reducing crime and ASB and cutting costs for the
State, a simple and workable framework of success measures is being developed.
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Troubled Family Coordinators – Each area allocated an amount of money
depending on the number of troubled families in their area) to fund this role.
Troubled Families Programme
What Does This Mean for Lancashire?
• 2nd largest LA
• 3 co-ordinators & 3
clusters
• 2,630 families
• 876 in year 1 (730 paid)
• c £8,768,000 available –
upfront attachment fee
and results-based
payment.
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Lancaster = 162
Wyre = 109
Fylde = 57
Cluster A = 328 over 3 years
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Preston = 294
West Lancs = 189
Chorley = 162
South Ribble = 109
Cluster B = 754 over 3 years
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Burnley = 425
Pendle = 373
Rossendale = 294
Hyndburn = 399
Ribble Valley = 57
Cluster C = 1548 over 3 years
Troubled Families Programme
Family Identification
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Crime/ASB
1 or more under 18 with proven offence &/or ASBO, ASB, ASBI etc. in last 12
months.
Education
Permanent exclusion, 3 or more fixed school exclusions across 3 consecutive
terms.
Or in a PRU or not on a school role.
&/or 15% unauthorised absences across 3 consecutive terms.
Work
Adult on DWP out of work benefits.
Local Discretion
Troubled Families Programme
Payment by Results Framework
Result
They achieve all 3 of the education and crime/ASB measures set out
below where relevant:
1. Each child in the family has had fewer than 3 fixed exclusions and
less than 15% of unauthorised absences in the last 3 school terms;
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2. A 60% reduction in anti‐social behaviour across the family in the
last 6 months; and
3. Offending rate by all minors in the family reduced by at least a 33%
in the last 6 months.
Attachment
fee
£3,200 per
family
If they do not enter work, but achieve the ‘progress to work’ (one adult
in the family has either volunteered for the Work Programme or
attached to the ESF provision in the last 6 months).
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At least one adult in the family has moved off out‐of‐work benefits into
continuous employment in the last 6 months (and is not on the ESF
Provision or Work Programme to avoid double‐payment).
Results
payment
£700 per family
Total
£4,000 per
family
£100 per
family
£3,200 per
family
£800 per family
£4,000 per
family
Troubled Families Programme
Wider Lancashire Context
CYTB
Governance Board
LSCB
Programme
Manager
Implementation
SPOCS
Quality
control
Programme
checkpoint with
project leads
MASH
MAESH
WTWF
CAF/
CON
Commissioning
Workforce
Development
Communication
Information
Management
Questions and Which Direction?