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Early Help (Sure Start and Families Matter) Proposed Changes from April 2016

Southampton City Council is implementing changes in its Early Help services, focusing on improving the 0-19 offer, integrating services internally and with health partners, and developing new referral pathways. The reorganization includes creating three 0-19 teams, restructuring Sure Start Children’s Centre Clusters, and separating statutory social work from Early Help. The aim is to enhance support for families through a broadened service offer and interventions. The new 0-19 Service will combine Early Help, Sure Start, and Families Matter initiatives.

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Early Help (Sure Start and Families Matter) Proposed Changes from April 2016

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  1. Southampton City Council Early Help (Sure Start and Families Matter) Proposed Changes from April 2016

  2. Proposed Changes *Implement a 0-19 Offer *Improve city wide early help offer *Locality working *Integrate services more closely, both internally and in collaboration with health *Develop new referral pathways *Broaden service offer and interventions *Review of UHA

  3. 0-19 Service Offer From 11th April the five existing Early Help Teams (0-4 and 5-19) will be re-organised into three new 0-19 Teams (West, Central and East) The four Sure Start Children’s Centre Clusters, will be re-organised into the three neww localities with shared management with Early Help. The Early Help Teams will be rebranded as the Families Matter Teams. Statutory social work (s.17 and above) will be separated from Early Help forming an interim 0-19 CIN Team, based at the Civic Offices. The whole service (FM and Sure Start) will become the 0-19 Service.

  4. City Wide Early Help Offer • The changes require that we rebrand Early Help. • The team will be known as a 0-19 Service incorporating: • Sure Start Children’s Centres • Families Matters • The Early Help Offer refers to the direct support offered to families in a range of settings, including Early Years, Schools, Health and the Voluntary Sector

  5. Localities • Southampton City Council Children’s Services and NHS Solent have agreed to remodel services to deliver a locality offer in West, Central and East. This approach aligns to better care • Services included in the first phase of this remodelling are: • Health Visiting Teams • School Nursing • Some specialist health services such as Speech and Language Therapy • Sure Start Children’s Centres • Families Matter • Head Start

  6. Locality Map Integrated Approaches to Localities

  7. Southampton City Council – Proposed Early Help Structure (April 16)

  8. Integration Southampton City Council and NHS Solent have a shared ambition to integrate services. The first phase creates locality management teams within a new 0-19 delivery model. Joint Business plans and advisory boards have been agreed for Sure Start and Health Visiting. Further work is underway to explore options for integration for the longer term.

  9. Referral Pathways New referral pathways are needed to access the ‘Early Help’ offer in localities. It is proposed that Early Help Hubs (Panels) are introduced, involving a variety of partner agencies including Schools, Police and Housing as well as those integrated into new 0-19 locality teams (Health and SCC). Referrals can be made to Families Matter direct, rather than via the MASH. Referrers will need to present their referral to the Early Help Hub (Panel) where a range of interventions may be offered.

  10. Service Offer • Families Matter aspires to offer a range of interventions including: • 1:1 support to children, young people or parents • Whole family support • Co-working • A mixture of short time or more intensive interventions • Provision of parenting groups or group activities • Decisions about the allocation of resource will be informed by capacity

  11. Other changes: Referrals can be made by a range of services direct to Families Matter including at the level of Child Protection. Referrers will however, have to secure the consent of the family to work with FM, have undertaken an assessment of need prior to referral and refer with a clear plan of action that can achieve the FM outcomes. Other services can run FM families too, provided they ask families to consent to FM and that they are providing support to the whole family. We will try to do more with less. More Outcomes. Less Families.

  12. Review of Universal Help Assessment An improved iteration of the UHA is being designed for piloting with partners in the spring. This new ‘Early Help Assessment’ is likely to be compatible with assessments frameworks used in Hampshire to support cross border working. An assessment will not be required as often and as varied as now. A programme of quality assurance will be implemented to support an ongoing partnership review of its use and application.

  13. Reconnecting with what works

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