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Children’s Services

Our Family Intervention & Support Service provides a range of specialist partner services to support children and families. Our dedicated teams offer support in areas such as mental health, education, housing, and more.

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Children’s Services

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  1. Children’s Services Jane Griffiths – Early Help Service Manager jgriffiths@Swindon.gov.uk

  2. Family Intervention & Support Service

  3. FAMILY INTERVENTION & SUPPORT SERVICE • Specialist Partner Services • CAMHS • TAMHS • IDVA • Drug & Alcohol Support • PCSO • TF Employment Advisor • Safe Families • NSPCC • Barnardo’s • Adult Mental Health • Housing • Early Years • Education Psychology • SEND • Social Care • Community Paediatricians • Sexual Health Support • Services in FISS Teams: • Family Support • Parenting Programmes • Youth Engagement • TAHMS • Health Visiting • School Nursing • Education Welfare • Respect Programme • On Trak • U Turn Adolescents at Risk Edge of Care Team around the School Edge of Custody Early Help • Services in Early Help Hub: • Referral, Triage & Allocation • New Beginnings • Family Group Conferencing • Family Nurse Partnership • Links with MASH and OPAL • Volunteering • Baby Steps

  4. Areas for Development • Development of two area FISS teams by September 2019 • Streamlining Referrals and Pathways to Services through the Early Help Hub ready for September 2019 when schools return • Team around the School Offer – what role can FISS offer to schools to support the delivery of an effective early help offer. • Multi Agency Network Meetings – 3 times a year (September, January and May) • Refresh of the EH Strategy to recognise new model

  5. A couple of polite reminders! Early Help Assessments: Please securely send your early help assessment to the early help hub mailbox. • Early Help Hub • 01793 466479 • ehhub@swindon.gov.uk If you are asked to complete the EHA with a family please do so or advise the EHH why one is no longer required. Thank you!

  6. A couple of polite reminders! EHE – Electively Home Educated A reminder that the EWS would like to know about any parents considering EHE at the earliest opportunity. This will allow them to follow up with parents to ensure they are making an informed decision. Schools can signpost parents considering this option to the EWS. TaMHS/CaMHS A reminder that Education staff can refer children directly to the TaMHS/CaMHS SPA (single point of access). Parents do not have to visit their GP for a referral. The process is the same for schools who trade/do not trade with TaMHS, schools who are in/not in the Trailblazer. LSCB Threshold Training : Please encourage and release staff to attend the threshold training as it is really important that we all have a shared understanding of thresholds.

  7. NEW FUNDING EOF – Early Outcomes Fund • £415k for one year for Swindon • To identify and support children who are at risk of or display early signs of atypical language development from the antenatal period onwards, particularly 0-30 months, in order to intervene at the earliest opportunity and minimise the achievement gap by age 5.

  8. INNOVATION FUNDING • Innovation Fund Project – Support for Children affected by Alcohol Dependent/Alcohol Misuse Parents • £577k over 3 years • PHE lead • Refer in the usual way and we will pick up through Early Help Hub. • Additional resources available for parents for example Lift Psychology, Turning Point etc.

  9. The Swindon model…. Virtual hub structure Children, Families & Community Health Services

  10. REDUCING PARENTAL CONFLICT FUNDING • Reducing Parental Conflict – 2 Elements • grant funding of £20,100.00 to purchase the Frontline Practitioner training identified in the Reducing Parental Conflict scoping tool that our Local Authority (LA) recently completed. • grant funding of £15k to help local areas develop their strategic approach to embed parental conflict support

  11. “Climbing a mountain is hard, just like achieving our dreams, but we shouldn’t let things stand in our way and in the end it is worth it” Advice from Falcon Class, Uplands School.

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