Transcript Integration of services for children, young people and

Revised Pathway to
Children’s Services – the
next phase
Children’s Trust Stakeholder Briefings
29 October 2012
2 November 2012
16 November 2012
Revision of Pathway to Provision
• What is changing
– Early Years and Early Intervention and Targeted Support
Service arrangements
– New operating model for Children’s Social Care, including the
Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub
– Revised pathway to reflect these changes
• What’s not changing
– Thresholds for children’s social care
– Levels of need (although list of services will be updated)
– Referral arrangements for health services for children, young
people and families
– Pathway to universal services
• To be articulated in a revised Pathway to Provision, to be
published in December 2012
If you think a child or young person is vulnerable or in need of early
help to achieve expected outcomes:
Consider completing a Common
Assessment Framework (CAF), using
the guidance on page x
Do you know which services are able
to meet identified needs of the child
or young person?
No
Refer to Early
Years and Early
Intervention if
aged 0-12
(see page x)
Refer to the appropriate
service, using the guidance
on page x
or
Service
agreed
No
Service
not
agreed
Is the support
required multiagency?
Yes
If you have a new safeguarding concern regarding a child,
young person or vulnerable adult, or consider that a child is in
need of specialist support from children’s social care in line
with the threshold guidance on page x:
Contact the Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH)
XXXX XXX XX XX during the following core working hours:
8.30 am – 5.00 pm – Monday to Thursday 8.30 am – 4.30 pm –
Friday
To submit an online form, log onto – www.
Outside of the core hours, and in an emergency, contact the
emergency duty team (EDT) on 0300 456 4546
Yes
Refer to Targeted
Support Service if
aged 8-18
(see page x)
Lead Professional
identified and
service agreed
If there are
gaps in
provsion
If the threshold is not met for
social care assessment, you
will be signposted to the
appropriate service
Refer to the Joint
Access Team (JAT)
using the
guidance on page
x
Service
agreed
If the threshold is met for social
care assessment the case will be
referred to the appropriate
social care team
Service request forms and guidance can be found at
www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/XXXXXXXXXXXXX
THE NEW PATHWAY
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Common Assessment Framework
(CAF)
The CAF team will provide support to
practitioners completing a CAF
They will confirm whether a CAF is already
open and log new CAFs
The team can be contacted on 01623
433291/ 01623 433181 or by email
[email protected]
A family CAF is currently being developed
Early Years and Early Intervention
• Universal and targeted service for families with children
aged 0 – 12 who are in need of support
• Service offer of 58 children’s centres providing:
– Children’s Centre Core Offer (0 – 5)
– Enhanced Family Support Offer (0 – 12) – support coordinated by a key worker acting as lead professional
and using the CAF to identify services that are
required. This may include parenting programmes,
1:1 family support around parenting/behaviour/
emotional health and wellbeing
– Gateway to a range of other services
Service Description and Access Routes
Prioritisation will be given to vulnerable groups including:
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Teenage mothers and pregnant teenagers
Lone parents
Children in workless households
Children in Black and Minority Ethnic groups
Disabled children and children of disabled parents
Fathers
Other vulnerable groups in the Children’s Centre area
How to access services:
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Referrals can be made directly to the family support lead attached to each
Children’s Centre Cluster. Alternatively, from November there will be a single
email address for access to Early Years and Early Intervention Services
coordinated by the CAF team.
Referrals will be made by telephone, post or email using a “Request for
Services” form.
EARLY YEARS AND EARLY
INTERVENTION
Rachel Clark
Mansfield
01623 433425
07788412312
Niki Coupe
Ashfield
01623 520070
07793978392
Tracie Dodd
Bassetlaw
01623 520055
07795334989
Linda Mottishaw
Gedling
01623 631101
07793978377
Anne Murphy
Broxtowe
0115 97 72919
07753625482
Mandy Stratford
Rushcliffe
0115 97 73496
07796 593537
Diane Tinklin
Newark & Sherwood
01623 629203
07785331232
Jude Burgess
Performance, Quality 0115 97 73251
and Commissioning
07753625403
EYEI LOCALITY MANAGERS
Targeted Support Service for Young
People
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The Targeted Support Service is a consent based service for vulnerable young
people aged 8-18. It is a partnership managed by the local authority involving the
police, health services, probation and not-for-profit and voluntary sector agencies.
The Service brings together the following:
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The Face-It substance misuse service
Those elements of the Connexions Service focused on vulnerable young people
The School Attendance Team
The Youth Inclusion Support Programme
Detached Youth Services
Young Carers
Elements of Supporting People
The core service includes:
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A key worker – someone to talk to and to coordinate all the services they need
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A structured assessment (CAF) and a clear plan – which is not repetitive, is easy to
understand and actively involves their views
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Support for them and their family – to maximise the long term chances of a successful
outcome
Eligibility Criteria and Access Routes
Factors meaning young people may need targeted support include the following:
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Problems with attendance or behaviour at school
Problems with drugs or alcohol
Difficulties finding work, training or re-entering education having left school
Being at risk of getting involved in anti-social behaviour and/or crime
Going missing from home or school
Being homeless, or at risk of homelessness
Young carers
Teenage parents
How to access services:
• Referrals can be made by telephone, post or email using the “Request for
Services” form to the three duty points - South, North and West
• Schools and police local area commands have link workers who they meet
regularly
• Professionals should use judgment when referring children aged 8-12 or sibling
groups – TSS and EYEI will work together to ensure the most appropriate service
involved
TARGETED SUPPORT
Locality Team South (Broxtowe, Gedling, Rushcliffe)
e-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 0115 8546049
Fax: 0115 8546037
Locality Team West (Ashfield, Mansfield)
e-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 01623 434238
Fax: 01623 434128
Locality Team North (Bassetlaw, Newark and Sherwood)
e-mail: [email protected]
Phone: 01623 520438
Fax: 01623 520095
TARGETED SUPPORT CONTACTS
Joint Access Teams (JATs)
• JATs continue to provide the opportunity
for a single, cross agency conversation
about a child or young person with early
intervention or targeted needs
• Referral arrangements for JATs remain
the same
• The new Pathway document will list all
JATs
List of Services
• Early Years and Early Intervention
• Targeted Support Service for young people
• Special Educational Needs and Disabilities: Policy and
Provision
• Children’s Disability Occupational Therapy
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
• Health services for children, young people and families
• Support After Adoption
• More comprehensive directory of services within
Children, Families and Cultural Services will be
published early 2013
MASH (Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hub)
From mid-December 2012, MASH will fully replace the existing duty points
(R&A North, South and Children’s Disability Service) for receiving concerns
that meet the threshold for children’s social care assessment:
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It will receive new safeguarding concerns about children and adults
It will also receive requests for support for children who meet the threshold
for children’s social care assessment
Advice regarding safeguarding concerns will be available from qualified
social workers
Concerns can raised by telephone or by completing an online form. All
telephone referrals should be followed up in writing
Cases that do not meet threshold will be signposted
If concerns meet the threshold for social care assessment, information from
a range of partners will be collated and shared within the MASH (with
consent where necessary), prior to the case being passed to the
appropriate team within children’s social care
All referrers will receive written feedback on the outcome of their concern
Children’s Social Care
Assessment teams North and South
• Three week teams undertaking Section 47 enquiries and initial assessments through
to Initial Child Protection Conference
District Child Protection Teams
• Support to children living at home under child in need or child protection plans
Through Care Service (for children looked after)
• Permanence team (children with an adoption plan)
• Court work team (children subject to care proceedings)
• LAC team (children living in fostering/residential care long-term)
• Leaving Care team
Inclusive Children’s Disability Service
• Assessment, child in need, child protection, through care
• Residential care, home care
• Respite care
• Occupational therapy
Key Messages
• New arrangements for Targeted Support Service for Young
People already in place
• New service offer for Early Years and Early Intervention in
place. Single point of access will be in place from November
• Professionals to use judgment when referring children aged 812 or sibling groups – TSS and EYEI will work together to
ensure the most appropriate service is involved
• Family CAF in development
Key Messages (2)
• There are no changes to thresholds for Children’s Social
Care. MASH will replace the existing duty points in R&A
North, South and Children’s Disability Service
• MASH will receive new safeguarding concerns regarding
children and adults
• It will also receive requests for support for children who meet
the threshold for children’s social care assessment
• MASH will go fully live in mid-December: use the existing
contact details until further notice
• All key documents including service request forms, CAF,
Pathway to Provision, link to MASH form, will be published
online at www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/pathwaytoprovision
prior to MASH go-live
Table Discussion
• Do you have a good understanding of the new
pathway to services?
• What are the implications for you as a
practitioner/for you in your service?
• Are you clear about the core purpose of the
MASH?
• Think about the children and families that you
are working with and consider whether the
pathway enables you to identify the route to
access support for them.