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Joining up services for children and families of offenders National and local responses

Joining up services for children and families of offenders National and local responses Sarah Davis, national lead, National Offender Management Service (NOMS) Tim Carter, Assistant Director, Barnardo’s and seconded to NOMS. Why are drain covers often round?. Joining up services.

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Joining up services for children and families of offenders National and local responses

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  1. Joining up services for children and families of offendersNational and local responses • Sarah Davis, national lead, National Offender Management Service (NOMS) • Tim Carter, Assistant Director, Barnardo’s and seconded to NOMS

  2. Why are drain covers often round?

  3. Joining up services • What are the barriers to overcome? • No shared outcomes between agencies • Prison narrow focus on child protection • Problems in identifying the children • Commissioning across LA boundaries • OASYs limitations in focusing on risk than need • Limits to information sharing • Removal of regional planning structures • Impact of re-structuring on momentum • Overcrowding works against local planning for prisons

  4. What enables it to happen? • Resources • Partnership working • Links with existing integrated approaches • Strategy/ Policy • Practice • Identification of families and information sharing • Schools • Wales

  5. Moving forward • National framework guidance • to support prison specifications and outcome guidance • 2. DCLG Troubled Families unit • specific focus on families with multiple/ complex needs • 3. Community Budget pilots • devolved decision making and budgetary control for children and family related services • 4. Growing awareness • Local Authority Children’s Plans, Hidden Sentence Training, engagement of Local Safeguarding Children’s Boards • 5. Reducing offending / re-offending • the economic case

  6. National picture • Cross government working • Social Justice Strategy • Troubled Families programme • NOMS / DfE family support programme • Building the evidence base – Desistence theories • Commissioning intentions and specification of service • National strategy – local interpretation and implementation

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