Themed Breakout: Intensive Family Support

1. Themed Breakout: Intensive Family Support Paul Carberry, Director of Service Development, Action for Children, Mike Burns, Head of Social Work Services North West Glasgow and Sheila Erskine, Children’s Services Manager, Action for Children

2. Intensive Family Support • Welcome and Introductions • What we know • Work of the Family Support Sub Group to date • Vision for the future of Family Support • How Intensive Family Support links to the work of the Early Years Collaborative

3. Stretch Aim 1 To ensure that women experience positive pregnancies which result in the birth of more healthy babies as evidenced by a reduction of 15% in the rates of stillbirths (from 4.9 per 1,000 births in 2010 to 4.3 per 1,000 births in 2015) and infant mortality (from 3.7 per 1,000 live births in 2010 to 3.1 per 1,000 live births in 2015).

4. Stretch Aim 2 To ensure that 85% of all children within each Community Planning Partnership have reached all of the expected developmental milestones at the time of the child’s 27-30 month child health review, by end-2016.

5. Stretch Aim 3 To ensure that 90% of all children within each Community Planning Partnership have reached all of the expected developmental milestones at the time the child starts primary school, by end-2017.

6. What parents have said they want • Trust and respect between parents and practitioners • Better communication between parents and practitioners • Practitioners who boost parental confidence by acknowledging the areas in a family’s life that are going well • Practitioners acknowledging parents know their children best and therefore fully informing and involving them in any decisions made about their children (taken from Bringing Up Children: Your Views, Sept 2012 And available from www.scotland.gov.uk)

7. Multi-agency partnerships Whole family approach Family centred but child focused Integrated assessment Key components of Intensive Family Support Understanding of impact of poverty Shared value base Delivered by resilient organisations Resourceful relationships over time

8. Putting the strategic vision into practice Aberdeen Families Service • A continuum of care and support • A range of programmes • Integrated and collaborative from referral to closure

9. Putting the strategic vision into practice Supporting Moray Families • Targeted intervention • Flexible resourcing • Scientific success

10. The voices that matter….

12. Virtuous Single System Recovery Therapy Statutory Social Work Family Support Framework Progressive Universalism

13. Single System Therapy resilience/ recovery Integrated Support Team Statutory Social Work Vulnerable Chaotic Joint Support Team Family Support Framework Just Coping Joint Support Team Progressive Universalism Coping

14. Next Steps Week on ‘supporting de-escalating’. Define the spectrum/framework … define intensive. From Partners to Colleagues. ‘Insight knowledge’ to ‘insight barriers’. Knowledge to insight to wisdom. Wisdom into practice. ‘Insight knowledge’ about localities…neighbourhoods…streets and families.

15. 30 Month Health Visitor Assessment 0 – 2 placements Social Work/ Addictions One Glasgow – Our Community Assets 3 years SDQ in all schools Triple P Joining the Dots. Family Learning Centres Education Joint Support Team

16. Thankyou and any questions…