Transcript Cavan/Monaghan Area Based Approach

Cavan/Monaghan
Tusla: New Child & Family Agency
Under the Child & Family Agency Act (2013):
• Child Welfare and Protection Services, including family
support services
• Family Resource Centres and associated national
programmes
• Early years (pre-school) Inspection Services
• Educational Welfare responsibilities including School
completion programmes and Home School Liaison
• Domestic, sexual and gender based violence services
Tusla: New Child & family Agency
Child & Family Agency functions:
• Supporting and promoting the development, welfare and
protection of children, including the provision of care and
protection for children in circumstances where their parents
have not been able to, or are unlikely to, provide the care that
a child needs
• Supporting and encouraging the effective functioning of
families, to include the provision of preventative family
support services
Policy, Strategy & Guidance Documents PPFS
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Guidance for Implementation of an Area Based Approach
to Prevention, Partnership, and Family Support
Investing in Families: Supporting Parents to Improve
Outcomes for Children
50 Key Messages: Supporting Parents to Improve
Outcomes for Children
What Works in Family Support?
Commissioning Guidance
Meitheal- a National Practice Model for all agencies
working with Children, Young People and their Families
Prevention, Partnership and Family Support
Investing in families/ 50 Key messages
What Works in Family Support
Commissioning Guidance
Meitheal National Practice Model
The Local Area Pathway in the context of the National
Service Delivery Framework :
• Develop an integrated system of children’s services that will have
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formal linkages with external services and that will establish processes
and procedures that have children’s well being as their focus at all levels;
Have clear and consistent referral pathways for children and families
which are based on assessed need and with responses appropriate to
meeting these needs.
Working with clarification around thresholds for assessment and
intervention.
Ensure each referral is dealt with in an efficient, effective and
proportionate manner and that families are directed to appropriate
services in a timely and competent manner.
Support and encourage referrers to exercise their judgement in an
effective way and work collaboratively to use their resources in the best
interest of children.
Provide a framework for information sharing between core Agency
services and other services.
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National Service Delivery Framework
Universal Services
E.g. Local Government, Education, Health
Early Intervention / Prevention
Target Services
Available Local
Community Services
Point of Entry Screening
Contact
Concern
Intake
Local Area Pathway
Supporting Children
and Families
Formal
Communication
Mechanism
Community
& Voluntary
Services
(38 & 39)
Other
Community &
Voluntary
Services
Not open to social work
Referral
Social Work
Close
Initial
Assessment
Child Welfare
re cases at risk of
formal intervention
(DRM type
response)
Child
Protection
(CPNS)
Open to social work
Child in
Care
The Purpose of Local Area Pathways
• To create a collaborative network of community, voluntary and
statutory providers so as to improve access to support services for
children and their families.
• To inform the commissioning process of deciding how to use the
total resources available for children and families in order to improve
outcomes in the most efficient, effective, equitable, proportionate and
sustainable way.
• To operate the Meitheal – A National Practice Model for all Agencies
working with Children, Young People and their Families. Meitheal is
about preventative support where children have unmet additional
and/or complex needs that need to be responded to but a referral under
Children First is not required.
• To provide a clear framework for action co-ordinated by a lead
practitioner and led by family requirements through the Meitheal
Model.
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Local Area Pathway
Area Manager
Prevention, Partnership and Family Support Manager
Child and Family Network Co-Ordinator
1 Cavan/1 Monaghan,
Monaghan North
Network
4/12/2013
Monaghan South
Network
Cavan East
Network
Cavan West
Network
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Meitheal in Cavan/Monaghan
 Partnership - Tusla, ISPCC and Barnardos
 Sharon Casey PPFS Manager Tusla Cavan/Monaghan.
 Kathryn Corrigan Barnardos (Cavan)
 Janice Wedlock ISPCC (Monaghan)
 Family Support Workers (4)
 Bernie, Antoinette, Sandra, Maura
Area Based Approach
 Picks up cases of unmet need that do not meet the
threshold for social work
 Coordinator/Lead practitioner meets
family/individual & gathers initial information.
 Directs family/individual to local service/s
 Utilisation of Common Assessment Framework Meitheal
 Provides parenting skills, practical support, advice
& guidance, befriending, advocacy
 Supports key workers/Lead agencies engaged with
families.
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Meitheal is an old Irish term that describes how neighbours
would come together to assist in the saving of crops or
other tasks. In this context Meitheal is a National Practice
Model to ensure that the needs and strengths of children
and their families are effectively identified and understood
and responded to in a timely way so that children and
families get the help and support needed to improve
children’s outcomes and realise their rights.
It is an early intervention, multi-agency (when necessary)
response tailored to needs of an individual child or young
person.
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Based on the My World Triangle: The Meitheal Model looks at the whole child in a holistic
manner, in the context of his or her family and environment.
Standardised approach: Supported by standardised documentation.
Normally targeted towards children with unmet needs: It takes into account strengths and
resilience as well as difficulties and needs.
Meitheal can be utilised by trained practitioners’ from different agencies: It is a national
practice model for all services and agencies who come into contact with children and their
families in the course of their work.
Based on Parental Consent: The decision to participate in the Meitheal Model is voluntary,
parents are involved in all aspects of the Meitheal Model, from the decision to enter the
Meitheal process, to the nature of information to be shared, outcomes desired, support
delivered, agencies to be involved to the decision on when to close the process. A Meitheal
meeting cannot take place without the involvement of at least one parent.
The Lead Practitioner role is central: The family is supported; and the response to the child’s
needs is coordinated by a Lead Practitioner. A Lead Practitioner can be drawn from any of the
members of the Child and Family Support Network