Supporting Families Children, Young People and Families Scrutiny Wednesday, 13 June 2012

1. Supporting Families Children, Young People and Families Scrutiny Wednesday, 13 June 2012

2. Defining the cohort: Youth Crime and ASB

3. Defining the cohort: Education

4. Defining the cohort: Youth Crime, ASB and Education

5. Defining the cohort: where

6. Delivery Planning

7. Team around the Family In order to deliver CLG outcomes we need a process that can support families to: • Tackle youth crime • Tackle family ASB • Improve school attendance • Support adults into work And 5. Deal with other issues that are a local priority

8. Team around the Family In order to design the process for managing Team around the Family, the Design & Delivery group is: • Working with Business Process Re-engineering to deliver a design workshop that will consider practice from current models, including: • CSRT, EIP, YOS. • Appraising a range of options for a family assessment tool, including: • Range of existing specialist assessments (e.g. CAF; ASSET; CAMHS; NAF etc.) • New comprehensive family assessment (e.g. FIP Family Assessment; CAF+) • New family screening tool as a gateway to specialist assessments (e.g. BLCs Assessment)

9. Large rent arrears • County Court Judgement • Benefits dependant • Family has poor diet • The children have a better relationship with their grandparents • Live in poorly maintained 3 bed Council house • Multiple calls to Council for repairs to property • Neighbour complaints about the condition of the house, noise, rubbish and vermin sightings at the property. • £12 per week reduction in Housing and Council Tax Benefits to recoup overpaid benefits after receiving a caution for not declaring previous partners living at the property The Button family following a data trawl and assessment • Workless • Drug dealer • In and out of prison • Regularly stops over and shares rooms with younger children • Regularly violates terms of his probation order and visits the property • Workless and on Out of Work Benefits – Income Support, Child Benefit, Child Tax Credit, full Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit. • Is on ABC for anti-social behaviour. Identified by RSL as meeting the ASB criteria. Identified via Housing Provider data. • Identified as workless via DWP who have provided a list of benefits. • Alcohol dependant • Suffers from anxiety and depression • Mistrusts public services and worries she might lose her children • Unaware of support available • Ignores the advice from her GP • Poor literacy • Often sleeps-in and unable to help the children get ready for school • Suspected victim of domestic violence by Jason and previous partner. • A conviction for shoplifting, identified by YOS. • Allows her boyfriend to stop over and use drugs in the home • Unemployed • No qualifications • Wanted to be a hairdresser but discouraged from working in case family loses benefits entitlement • Previous request for alternative accommodation turned down as low priority • Smoking large quantities of cannabis and becoming paranoid • Some evidence of early psychosis • Being referred to Adult Mental Health by GP • Has Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) • Frequently late for school • Often arrives at school inadequately clothed, hungry and dirty • Bullied at school about his appearance • Constantly placed in front of television with little interaction from the rest of the family • Does not attend local Children’s Centre • Seen wandering around estate without appropriate shoes and clothing • Regular truant from school – meets the DFE absence criteria & identified via sweep of EMS • Permanent case for his exclusion is due soon. • Frequently late for school • Often arrives at school inadequately clothed, hungry and dirty • Is working with an EWO. • Workless • Drug user • Not registered with a GP • Regularly stops over and shares rooms with younger children = members of the family identified as meeting the TF selection criteria.

10. Process Review

11. Headlines • None of the existing processes currently meet the TF requirements – work with individuals not families. • Education / Worklessness share the same platform (EMS) but it doesn’t operate at family level. • Potential within EIP to deliver against all 3 TF criteria – Education / Crime & ASB / Worklessness

12. Outline Options • Option 1: Do Nothing • Option 2: Flex 1 or more current processes. • Option 3: Co-opt into one process • Option 4: Develop bespoke process

13. Performance Management In order to drive service improvement and secure payment by results from CLG, we need a process that will: • Certify the eligibility of families • Baseline families against a range of CLG and locally determined criteria • Track families and measure progress • Monitor and verify outcomes • Report to CLG with agreed format and frequency • Analyse impact and return on investment • Inform and support strategic commissioning decisions

14. Assessing Interventions: BIT BIT works with families to support children who are at risk of permanent exclusion from school or family breakdown leading to the child going into care. Success rates are close to 90% of those who engage. BIT is an internationally evidenced programme of therapy based upon solution focused methodologies.

15. Assessing Interventions: FGC • Family Group Conferences :- • Support extended families to work through issues and define their own solutions. • Workers set out the parameters of the meeting, but the family creates an improvement plan. This is quality assured by the worker. • There is international evidence of the positive impact of FGC. • The service currently deals with about 70 cases per year. • Low cost intervention putting the family at the heart of the process

16. Discussion