Troubled Families 2: Transforming Lives, Breaking Cycles

1. Troubled Families 2 (Expanded Programme 2015-20) Becky Surman May 2015

2. The national Troubled Families agenda Focuses on: • Families with multiple problems • Families that are high cost to the public purse • Families with intergenerational problems Aims to: • Embed whole-family keywork across the country • Tackle entrenched problems and improve long term resilience of families – stop the ‘revolving door’ • Break cycles of poverty and disadvantage by getting families into education and employment

3. Troubled Families 2 • Five-year programme (2015-20) with funding agreed for 15/16 • DCLG’s 2015/16 Financial Framework is available online • A focus on ambitious service transformation • Funding is given on a per family basis: £1000 Attachment Fee and £800 Payment by Results • We have a target of ‘turning around’ 3570families by 2020 • In year 1, our target is to engage 757 families. We hope to make claims for at least 75% of these by March 2016. • Each Local Authority has to produce an Outcomes Framework • There are significantly increased data requirements for evidencing the impact of the programme and assessing the cost effectiveness of interventions

4. The Outcomes Framework • Maps key strategic priorities across the East Sussex partnership for each of the six themes in relation to families with multiple and complex problems • Lists a set of Vulnerability Indicators for each of the six areas in relation to the level of family vulnerability/risk. Most of these are set by DCLG. Some have been added as local priorities. • Provides a framework for measuring ‘significant and sustained’ family progress and claiming PbR • Act as an audit tool against which ESCC Internal Audit and DCLG may establish whether a PbR claim is valid • Is intended to be a working document, so will be updated on an annual basis

5. The six TF2 themes • Crime and anti-social behaviour • Missing education • Children who need targeted help • Worklessness and financial exclusion • Domestic violence and abuse • Mental and physical health problems

6. PbR claims pathways Continuous employment & off benefits ‘Significant and sustained’ progress in all six themes • Can only claim for a family using one pathway or the other • We can only submit a claim under the ‘significant and sustained’ pathway when a family achieves the relevant outcomes in all six problem areas in the same time period • If one of the areas wasn’t a problem in the first place, we have to check that it hasn’t become a problem before claiming

7. PbR: Significant and sustained progress • Claims can only be made when families have achieved progress in all six areas according to the measures in our Outcomes Framework • If one of the areas wasn’t a problem in the first place, we have to check that it hasn’t become a problem before making a claim • All children in the family must reach achieve the new Government attendance threshold of 90% – the only outcomes measure determined by the DCLG • Where unemployment continues to be a problem, progress to work should be achieved

8. Measuring impact outside of PbR: DCLG requirements