Transcript Children's Centres Conference 061107

Team Around the Child (TAC), CAF
and Locality Working
Professional Reference Group
09th January 2008
Team Around the Child: Shaping the future of Children & Young People
Welcome
Purpose of presentation:
• To ensure we have a common understanding
of the Team around the Child
• An opportunity to look at how the model will
work operationally
• An opportunity to build relationships for joint
working
Sandra Morrison
Programme Director, Change Management
Lambeth CYPS
Team Around the Child: Shaping the future of Children & Young People
Vision:
“We will enable children and young people to be happy,
healthy and safe to achieve their full potential. We will
achieve this by:
•Developing integrated services that are seamless,
efficient and improve outcomes for children and young
people
•Ensuring effective and efficient partnership working to
safeguard and promote welfare of children and young
people
•Increasing early identification of need and intervention
thus preventing a need in the future
•Seeking to engage children, young people and their
families, ensuring we reach those from all communities”
Context
TAC is the approach we
are using to establish
integrated Service delivery
for Children and Young
People in Lambeth
•Meet statutory
requirements Children Act
2004
•Integrate service delivery
•Support early intervention
Team Around the Child: Shaping the future of Children & Young People
Children Act: Statutory Requirements by end of 2008
All Local Authorities are required to:
• Children’s Trust arrangements in place by march 2008
• Appointed a Director of Children’s Services (2005)
• Designated a Lead Member for Children’s Services (2005)
• Children & Young People’s Plan (2006
Probation
• Establish a Local Safeguarding Children’s
Board (2005
One Child - Many
Agencies - Joint Working Seamless Intervention
Social
Services
Police
Educatio
n
Health
Youth
Offendin
g Team
Housing,
Connexions
Team Around the Child: Shaping the future of Children & Young People
Meeting the requirements of the Children’s Agenda
Sharing of
concerns
Universal child index
Duties to co-operate
and safeguard
Common
assessment
framework
Performance
management
information
Fewer, inter-operable, systems
Integrated Children’s System
(ICS)
Multi-agency
case work
Workforce
development
Process change / better practice
Children’s centres/extended
schools
Joint
commissioning
Federated
solutions
Organisational
re-design & colocation
Regional hubs
Team Around the Child: Shaping the future of Children & Young People
Targeting Resources & Commissioning Services
Resources are currently mainly allocated
to the universal and specialist services
with few allocated to preventative and
targeted services
All children
Children with
additional needs
Vulnerable
children
Challenge is how to
refocus resources on
prevention and early
Intervention
Universal
Services
Preventative/Targeted
Services
Specialist
Services
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Team Around the Child: Shaping the future of Children & Young People
What is Team Around the Child
An approach first developed to provide integrated services
to children under 5 with complex disabilities – generally
through child development services – bringing together
health visitors, paediatricians, social workers, SEN team
administrators, physiotherapists and occupational
therapists, psychologists, portage workers and speech
and language therapists to meet the individual needs of
children/young people and their family.
Team Around the Child: Shaping the future of Children & Young People
Implementation Approach
• Develop the Team Around the Child (TAC) as one of the
approaches to be used to meet the statutory Every Child
Matters requirements to integrate systems, processes and
service delivery to improve outcomes for children and
young people
• The integration of service delivery to be based on the
needs, localities and communities governed by the three
planning areas
Team Around the Child: Shaping the future of Children & Young People
Implementation of the TAC
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Bringing together of staff across the partnership
Aligned into three teams based on the PCT localities
Partnership working to promote early intervention
Resources deployed by on Area TAC Manager
CAF used to identify needs
Team Around the Child: Shaping the future of Children & Young People
Team Around the Child Approach
Specialist
Services
Universal
resources
AM
Team Around the Child
CWAN
Swift and Easy
Referrals
Reduction in
Referrals
TAC Area Managers
Nandita Sirker – North Locality –
020 7926-5710
Heather Swaby – South East
Locality – 020 7926 5723
Geraldine Abrahams – South
West Locality – 020 7926 5724
Key Objectives:
- CAF Assessments
- CAF Return Form
- TAC Friendly Sites
- Partnership Working
- Mapping exercises
Family Support
Worker Service
• Funded Direct School
Grant
• Recruitment Complete
• Family Support Workers
in place by January 2008
ContactPoint
• National roll out –
October 2008
• New Legislation –
August 2007
• Enhanced CRB Checks
• Disclosure of previous
convictions
• Local Systems
• ContactPoint Officer
• Criteria for access to
information
CAF
• 200 Staff Trained
• Partnership objective
400 CAFs by 30th
November 07
• Training dates
• Informing
commissioning, data
• Early intervention
• Referral to other
services
TAC Friendly Sites
Criteria:
• Hot desk space
• Meeting facilities for
- 121s
- CAF Meetings
- Lead Professional
Meetings
• Ideally with broad facilities
to enable VPN access to
systems
• Target to have 6 in each
locality by December 2007
Information
Sharing
• Small team looking at
the cultural change
required in agencies in
relation to: –
– information sharing
– Attitudes
– Barriers
• Provide a solution and
recommendations to
Executive Group by
January 2008
Team Around the Child: Shaping the future of Children & Young People
How will TAC impact on outcomes?
Framework for
Integrated/
Common
Assessments & Care
pathways
• Reduced
duplication of
Assessments
• Parent tell their
story only once
Lead Professional
Keyworker , Team
around the Child
systems
Joint Planning &
Commissioning
framework
•Services are coordinated more clearly
with grater
accountability.
•Parent have single
point of contact
•Services provided are
matched to identified
need
•Duplicated services
eliminated
Disabled Children’s
Register/Child Index
•Better information to
parents on services
available
•Disabled Children do
not fall between gaps
in services.
Benefits and Outcomes for Users and Parents
Multi agency
transition
arrangements
Management and
Clinical Supervision
structures
Co-ordinated working
delivers multi-agency
transitions between
services and child to
adult services.
Management
accountability for case
delivery across all
aspects of service.
Co – Location
Children and Parents
can access all
services at a single
location
Integrated Case
Management
Systems E-CAF,
ICS EDMS
Parents can access
detailed information
on their service
delivery through any
professional
Thank you!
www.lambeth.gov.uk/tac