Team Around the Child (TAC), CAF and Locality Working Professional Reference Group

1. Team Around the Child (TAC), CAF and Locality Working Professional Reference Group 09th January 2008

2. Team Around the Child: Shaping the future of Children & Young People Welcome Purpose of presentation: • To ensure we have a common understanding of the Team around the Child • An opportunity to look at how the model will work operationally • An opportunity to build relationships for joint working

3. Sandra Morrison Programme Director, Change Management Lambeth CYPS

4. Team Around the Child: Shaping the future of Children & Young People • Vision: • “We will enable children and young people to be happy, healthy and safe to achieve their full potential. We will achieve this by: • Developing integrated services that are seamless, efficient and improve outcomes for children and young people • Ensuring effective and efficient partnership working to safeguard and promote welfare of children and young people • Increasing early identification of need and intervention thus preventing a need in the future • Seeking to engage children, young people and their families, ensuring we reach those from all communities”

5. Context TAC is the approach we are using to establish integrated Service delivery for Children and Young People in Lambeth • Meet statutory requirements Children Act 2004 • Integrate service delivery • Support early intervention

6. Social Services Probation Police Education Youth Offending Team Health Housing, Connexions Team Around the Child: Shaping the future of Children & Young People Children Act: Statutory Requirements by end of 2008 • All Local Authorities are required to: • Children’s Trust arrangements in place by march 2008 • Appointed a Director of Children’s Services (2005) • Designated a Lead Member for Children’s Services (2005) • Children & Young People’s Plan (2006 • Establish a Local Safeguarding Children’s • Board (2005 One Child - Many Agencies - Joint Working - Seamless Intervention

7. Performance management information Sharing of concerns Multi-agency case work Team Around the Child: Shaping the future of Children & Young People Meeting the requirements of the Children’s Agenda Fewer, inter-operable, systems Integrated Children’s System (ICS) Universal child index Common assessment framework Duties to co-operate and safeguard Federated solutions Joint commissioning Organisational re-design & co-location Workforce development Process change / better practice Children’s centres/extended schools Regional hubs

8. Team Around the Child: Shaping the future of Children & Young People Targeting Resources & Commissioning Services Resources are currently mainly allocated to the universal and specialist services with few allocated to preventative and targeted services Challenge is how to refocus resources on prevention and early Intervention

9. Team Around the Child: Shaping the future of Children & Young People What is Team Around the Child An approach first developed to provide integrated services to children under 5 with complex disabilities – generally through child development services – bringing together health visitors, paediatricians, social workers, SEN team administrators, physiotherapists and occupational therapists, psychologists, portage workers and speech and language therapists to meet the individual needsof children/young people and their family.

10. Team Around the Child: Shaping the future of Children & Young People Implementation Approach • Develop the Team Around the Child (TAC) as one of the approaches to be used to meet the statutory Every Child Matters requirements to integrate systems, processes and service delivery to improve outcomes for children and young people • The integration of service delivery to be based on the needs, localities and communities governed by the three planning areas

11. Team Around the Child: Shaping the future of Children & Young People Implementation of the TAC • Bringing together of staff across the partnership • Aligned into three teams based on the PCT localities • Partnership working to promote early intervention • Resources deployed by on Area TAC Manager • CAF used to identify needs

12. Team Around the Child: Shaping the future of Children & Young People Team Around the Child Approach Specialist Services Universal resources AM Team Around the Child CWAN Swift and Easy Referrals Reduction in Referrals

13. TAC Area Managers Nandita Sirker – North Locality – 020 7926-5710 Heather Swaby – South East Locality – 020 7926 5723 Geraldine Abrahams – South West Locality – 020 7926 5724 Key Objectives: - CAF Assessments - CAF Return Form - TAC Friendly Sites - Partnership Working - Mapping exercises

14. Family Support Worker Service • Funded Direct School Grant • Recruitment Complete • Family Support Workers in place by January 2008

15. ContactPoint • National roll out – October 2008 • New Legislation – August 2007 • Enhanced CRB Checks • Disclosure of previous convictions • Local Systems • ContactPoint Officer • Criteria for access to information

16. CAF FORM SSD Education Health Vol CAF • 200 Staff Trained • Partnership objective 400 CAFs by 30th November 07 • Training dates • Informing commissioning, data • Early intervention • Referral to other services

17. TAC Friendly Sites Criteria: • Hot desk space • Meeting facilities for - 121s - CAF Meetings - Lead Professional Meetings • Ideally with broad facilities to enable VPN access to systems • Target to have 6 in each locality by December 2007

18. Information Sharing • Small team looking at the cultural change required in agencies in relation to: – • information sharing • Attitudes • Barriers • Provide a solution and recommendations to Executive Group by January 2008

19. Team Around the Child: Shaping the future of Children & Young People How will TAC impact on outcomes?

20. Thank you! www.lambeth.gov.uk/tac