Birmingham Children, Young
People and Families Directorate
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Remodelling of Family
Support and Safeguarding
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Birmingham’s vision for our
children and young people
“Every child in every part of the City should
achieve their potential. We will provide early
help and support to those children and families
who need it and, working together, will ensure
that every child has the belief, aspiration and
support to be their best.”
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Children’s Plan Priorities
• Prevention
• Integration
• Aspiration
• Safeguarding
• Participation
• Excellence through partnership
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Strategic Intent
Increased
early support
for families
Fewer children
in care (1500)
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Better
prevention
(public health)
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Lord Laming 2003
‘it is not possible to separate the protection
of children from wider support to families.
Indeed, often the best protection for a child
is achieved by the timely intervention of
family support services’.
further highlighted by Professor Munro, 2011.
‘the provision of early help is vital to keeping
children safe’.
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Early Help Pathway: Principles
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Its never too early
Do the basics well
‘begin at the end’
‘no wrong door’
Common Assessment
Evidenced based
practice
• Clear roles and
responsibilities
• Invest in pre-natal, early
years and parenting
• ‘Think Family’
• Trust professional
judgement and
collaborate
• Needs led (data)
• Invest in workforce
learning and
development
• Long term approach
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Early Help Pathway: Priorities
1. Commitment to early help
2. Improve coordination and reach
3. Improve availability of information
4. Invest in our workforce
5. Embed a common language
6. Coherent set of procedures
7. Review the risk management guidance
8. Develop and integrate targeted services
9. Embed a Common Assessment
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Vision: Safeguarding and
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‘through integration we will provide a
comprehensive and seamless offer of ‘early help’
through to targeted and specialist services; with
the intention of reducing the incidence of
significant harm and unnecessary escalation of
children and young peoples needs’.
right support from the ‘right service, right time’.
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Transformation Journey
Today
Transformation/Change
Silo working- internally
and across partnerships
Multitude of
transfer/referral points
Inconsistent service
Provision
Collaborative and
integrated working
Accommodation
Process &
Performance
Transformation
Team &
Communications
ICT
Future
People.
Teams &
Culture
Organisation
Finance &
Benefits
More consistent and
seamless journey for
children and their
families
Consistent, needs led and
high quality of service
VISION
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Principles
• Needs led approach
• Change the language, services to children not process (e.g
threshold, needs a CAF, IA, s47)
• No wrong door
• Acute and complex not only Social Care response
• Encourage a conversation that helps find a solution rather than a
stand off
• Avoids reframing of a concern to a child protection matter
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Early Intervention
‘There is a vital role for professionals working in universal services –
health, education, police and early years – to identify the early
signs of abuse and neglect and to work together to deliver
coordinated services to children and families.’
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Identify and intervene with children and families which may
require help from more than one agency
2.
Support integrated working and share relevant information
3.
Co-ordinate and deliver a multi-agency service response that is
evidenced based which is responsive to the needs of children and
their families and informed by a common assessment
Working Together – Consultation Document 2012
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Meeting
Children’s
Needs
• Focused on NEED
• Child at the Centre
• Support offered to the
family
• Birmingham’s model
• All agencies use
same indicators
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Achieving the Vision proposed new model of service
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Child & The
Family
Safeguarding &
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Integrated
CIC teams
CIAS
Locality Area Safeguarding and
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Proposed locations – Hub Children’s Centres
East
• Oaklands Park
• Kitts Green*
• Dyson Gardens
• Fox Hollies/Golden Hillock*
• Park Road*
West & Central
• The Willows
• Birchfield
• St Thomas*
South
• Albert Bradbeer (Merrishaw)
• Reameadow
• Chinnbrook
• Doddington*
North
• Circle
• Featherstone*
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Integrating partners
• Responsive to local needs
• Potential to improve co-location and integration
in Children Centre areas and include Health
Visiting Service, Community Midwifery, Family
Nurse Partnership and Sexual Health etc.
Key Virtual Partners
• Adult and Community Services; Youth and
Connexion Services, Housing
• Schools
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Benefits of the proposal
• Reduction in the multitude of transfer/referral points
• More consistent and seamless journey for children and their
families
• More resources devoted to the needs of children and families
• Emphasis on front line practice improvement
• Effective integration, economies of scale and considerable
more scope for flexibility
• Strengthened management oversight and opportunities to
develop and retain excellent practitioners
• Early Help and access to Social Care expertise, Evidenced
based practice and Team around the child; good partnership
working
• Think family / troubled family approaches
• Consistent application of the risk management principles
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Benefits of proposed model for
partners
• Better and more effective information sharing
across partnerships
• Reduced duplication of effort
• Better coordination and use of resources
• Potential for knowledge and skills transfer
through co location and strengthened
partnership arrangements
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Benefits for children and their
families
• Fewer ‘hand offs’ for children and seamless
journey for the child
• Access to the right help from the right service
and the right time
• Consistent, high quality, needs led service
provision
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Any Questions?
Feedback can be submitted online via:
http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/supporthubs
For any further information contact:
CYPFChange@birmingham.gov.uk
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