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Community Budgets in Kensington and Chelsea: Transforming Family Support

Learn how integrated budgeting in RBKC is revolutionizing family services, driving down costs, and improving outcomes.

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Community Budgets in Kensington and Chelsea: Transforming Family Support

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  1. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Community Budgets Letitia Bradley and Jan Keen 6th of September 2011 Kensington Town Hall

  2. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea COMMUNITY BUDGET BACKGROUND Around £8 billion a year is spent on around 120,000 families that have multiple problems, with funding only getting to local areas via hundreds of separate schemes and agencies. Despite this investment, the complex needs of these families’ remain.

  3. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea BACKGROUND • Two big barriers to local service innovation and reduced service costs… • Funding silos • Performance management / targets

  4. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Premise Services need to join up and intervene earlier so that families are given the chance to turn their lives around. This integrated, early intervention and High Need approach will alsodrive down costs.

  5. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea COST saved on multi-problem families Estimates are made using the Family Cost Calculator devised by the Gov – the calculation results in £81,624 average savings per family per year based on intensive Family Intervention multi-agency packages of support.

  6. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea ‘…turn around every troubled family in the country’

  7. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Proposal 16 areas (covering 28 councils and their partners) given direct control over local spending in their area free of centrally imposed conditions. Funding available from April 2011. Various Whitehall funding strands are pooled within a single ‘local bank account’ for tackling social problems around families with complex needs

  8. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea COMMUNITY BUDGET AREAS • Blackburn with Darwen • Blackpool • Bradford • Essex • Greater Manchester (a group of 10 councils) • Hull • Kent • Leicestershire • Lincolnshire • London Borough of Barnet • London Borough of Croydon • London Borough of Islington • London Borough of Lewisham • The London Boroughs of Westminster, Hammersmith and Fulham, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Wandsworth • Swindon

  9. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Local Need Central Gov. Depts. e.g. DWP, MOJ, DoE Council / Local Partners e.g. Police / PCT £ / Resource Local response Save money Improve outcomes

  10. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea The Response… Westminster: ‘Wider’ Family Recovery Programme (FRP) H&F : Family Support Programme RBKC: (build upon Family Intervention Project / Adolescent Service / others) Wandsworth: FRP programme

  11. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea RBKC’s Project Complex or Acute Family Needs – Child Protection High or Complex Family Needs - Children in Need Low to Vulnerable Families with Additional Needs – CA(F) Universal Needs – Universal Services

  12. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Family Intervention Workless families Offender Management Housing Education and training Employability Physical and mental health Substance misuse Benefits and budgeting Re - offending and ASB

  13. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Current Progress • 3 Exemplar funding bids - Working Families Everywhere - Multi-systemic Therapy (MST) - Prisoners’ and their Families Young men, aged 18-24 in both Prisons

  14. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea What do we offer? • Help Families to form positive relationships and stay together • Help to build resilience and encourage families to respond differently • Enable young people to discover and set positive goals • Encourage and support engagement with other services’ • Personalised, targeted support both individually and as a family

  15. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Outcomes • At point of referral; 29 active requests for young people to be received into care • Only 5 became Looked After Children; and 2 were supported to return home • 3 moved into semi-independent hostels and supported by team • 2 became remanded in Youth Offending Institutions • 1 sectioned under Mental Health Act

  16. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Family Services Adult Services Police Children subject to a CP Plan Employment Projects Adolescent Service Substance Misuse Education & Youth Services Positive Engagement Programme YOT Complex & Re-offenders Local Analysis Education Welfare/Special Educational Needs & Pastoral Support Services High Needs Children In Need

  17. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea National performance targets- High Level

  18. The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Local performance targets

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