Children and Families –
Early Help and Prevention
Provider Event
17th July 2013
Janet Doran – Assistant Director
Children and Families, Early Help and
Prevention
Aims of session
To inform all interested parties of:• Prevention and Demand Management Strategy
journey to date
• Early Help and Prevention in Northamptonshire
• Commissioning process for Early Help and
Prevention
Prevention and Demand Management
Social Care
Staff
EH &
Prev
£
Contracted
Services
Business Systems
Vulnerable
individuals/familie
s/communities
Public Service Bodies
Data Performance
Information
Prevention and Demand Management
Current
Helping You
when you
can’t help
yourself
Future
Costs savings
generated by
reduction in volume
(Stock and Flow)
Specialist
Specialist
Targeted
Targeted
Prevention
Helping
You to
Help
yourself
Tier
Early
Help
Universal
Prevention
Prevention
/ earlier
intervention
(Stage not age)
Early Help
Universal
Social Care
3
Children’s Centre
provision
Threshold levels
4
2
1
0
Age
Targeted Prevention
(e.g. direct delivery)
Early Help (e.g. schools,)
Universal Services (e.g. schools, libraries)
5
10
15
19
(25 SEND)
Children and Families –
Early Help and Prevention
Journey to date
Deborah Mahon – Service Manager
Policy and Partnerships, Early Help
and Prevention
Early Help and Prevention –
journey to date
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Consultation
Targeted Prevention Service – skilled generalist
Helping Families to Help Themselves Directory
Fair and Equitable Funding Formula
Needs Assessment
Strategy Review
Cabinet agreement – June 2013
Prevention Consultation Methodology
• Open Public Events
• Targeted customer events
• Targeted prevention teams
Principles that were consulted on....
• One person to help with a number of different
problems that a family has so that you don’t have
to see lots of different people
• Able to get help from someone who is a specialist
when it is needed
• Help is available locally (Early Help Forum Areas)
• Services are checked and information about them
is available to staff and parents when they need
it
Agreed Outcomes
• Physical Living Environment:
All families maintain healthy and stable
living conditions
• Economic Wellbeing:
All families are strong enough to manage stress
over money, poverty and unemployment
• Social Interaction:
All families can give and receive support from friends,
neighbours and the wider community
• Education and Skills:
All children and young people do well in education
and this gives them the skills they need to find work
• Physical and mental health and healthy living:
All families
maintain good health and wellbeing for happy, healthier, longer lives
• Parenting:
All parent(s) or caregiver(s) support their children’s healthy
physical, emotional, learning and social development
• Family Relationships:
relationships
All families maintain stable and good quality family
NCC Targeted Prevention Service
• Focussed interventions with families at Level 3 to
reduce risk – targeted home based support with
a lead professional, persistent support, family
driven
• Stepped down or prevention not requiring Social
Care response, preventing Criminal Justice
response
• Offer extended from 0 to 19
Role and Attributes of ‘Skilled Generalist’
• A practitioner with a background in working with children,
young people and families in their homes or in a
community context
• Holding a comprehensive skills set that enables him or her
to work on adult behaviours and the impact on a child or
young person’s wellbeing by employing solution focussed
ways of working with families to effect change
• To work with families in a safe way and know when to
escalate concerns or seek more expert advice as the need
arises
• To be tenacious, confident and persistent when working
with highly resistant families
• Have good networks, links with services and a holistic
approach
Helping Families to Help Themselves Directory
Web based tool,
for practitioners
and citizens to
use to determine
the right support
at the right time
Example
Interventions:•Mental Health
support
•Domestic abuse
•Sexual violence
•Addiction
•Counselling
Practitioners
HFtHT
Directory
• Skilled Generalists
• Family Support Workers
• Early years
Parents and
Carers
Agencies
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• Personalisation
Schools
Health Visitors
Police Officers
Children’s Centres
etc
Fair and Equitable Funding Formula
• The Fair and Equitable Funding Methodology
(FEFM) was developed using the principles of the
Indices of Multiple deprivation. The model can be
used to analyse patterns of deprivation and
identify those living in areas with higher levels of
need and greater levels of disadvantage.
The Model
Data Sets
Sets of Criteria
Rankings for
each area
1 – 407
Fed into a
Domain
Index
Given
Weighting
Fair and
Equitable
Funding
allocated
by area
Domains / Themes
Early Years / Children’s
Centres
Deprivation
Community Safety
Young People
Communities
Adults - Vulnerable
Access - Rural
Data sets for these Domains, see updated Fair and Equitable Funding Model
Domains and Datasets document.
Needs Assessment priorities identified
• Reducing incidence of domestic violence ;
• Reducing incidence of abuse and neglect ;
• Reducing the number of adolescents with
challenging behaviour ;
• Reducing impact of drug and alcohol use on
children and their families;
• Services that support improved Mental Health /
wellbeing ;
• Support for Parenting.
Statutory and priority services for
Early Help and Prevention
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Children’s Centres
Interpersonal Violence Services
Youth Provision
Services for young people with challenging
behaviours
• Parenting
Early Help in Northamptonshire
• Thresholds and Pathways
• Early Help Forums
• CAFF - CAFF for all Children and Families
who have needs/risks identified (levels 2 Early Help and 3 – Targeted Prevention)
Early Help offer needs to demonstrate
• Focus on outcomes – e.g. distance travelled
• Effective processes for sharing information
• Voice of the child in service development
• Quality Assurance
Early Help and Prevention
Commissioning
Joe Apea
Commissioning Manager
A commissioning cycle
• Local outcomes
• Needs
• Supply
• Resources
• Monitor
• Review
• Improve
• Decommission
• Establish priorities
• Meet needs
effectively,
efficiently and
equitably
Analyse/
understand
Plan
Review
Do
• Decisions to secure
outcomes
• Capacity to deliver
Outcomes
• We commission for outcomes
• Sometimes proxy measures for outcomes are
appropriate
• We need to commission on return on investment
• Once we have procured, we contract monitor against
the successful bid
Distance Travelled
• It’s the ‘so what’ question?
• Has the support delivered made a difference?
• And can this be evidenced?
• We must be measured every time
Sharing Information
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Information governance arrangements
Interface with the Council and other partners
Barriers to information sharing
Customers tell us they want to tell their story
once
• Ability to access interventions in one place
• Service transfer – mobilisation and
implementation phase
Engagement phase
Do......
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Engage creatively
Engage realistically
Consider what you do and can offer
Listen to commissioners (and others)
Procurement phase
Don’t .......
• Misread the questions
• Ignore the scoring levels
• Ignore what commissioners have said they are buying in
the service specification
• Assume your reputation will go before you
• Assume that scorers will refer to information from
outside the process
• Think that procurement is about lobbying
Early Help and Prevention
Ongoing engagement:
Web page
http://www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/en/councils
ervices/socialcare/plans/prevent/Pages/Preventionstrategy.aspx
Email
cfehpadmin@Northamptonshire.gov.uk
Supporting Services Tender:
Briefing on Scope, Budgets & Timelines
Commissioning Managers:
Rachel Sanson
RSanson@northamptonshire.gov.uk
01604 367903
Joe Apea
JApea@northamptonshire.gov.uk
01604 366595
Supporting Services Tender...
What’s in Scope?
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Services to support work at level 2, 3 and 4
Domestic abuse
Youth provision
Adolescents with challenging behaviour
Support for parenting
Supporting Service Tender:
Lots and Term of Contract
• Contracts will be released in 10 “lots” that reflect Early
Help Forum areas:
– 1 x Corby, 1 x Daventry, 1 x East Northants, 1 x
Kettering, 1 x South Northants, 1 x Wellingborough
– 4 x Northampton
Early Help
Forum
Areas:
Indicative Budget and FEFM Split
Lot
Corby
Daventry
East Northants
Kettering
Northampton Central
Northampton East
Northampton North
Northampton West
Northampton Total
South Northants
Wellingborough
Total
Support Services
Allocation
£336,000
£245,000
£288,000
£396,000
£296,000
£368,000
£222,000
£290,000
£1,176,000
£193,000
£366,000
c£3,000,000
% of Total
Budget
11.20%
8.18%
9.61%
13.19%
9.89%
12.27%
7.34%
9.68%
39.19%
6.44%
12.2%
100%
Key Target Dates
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Cabinet approval – 11 June 2013
Today’s provider event – 17 July 2013
End of July – collation of all TUPE information
Stakeholder feedback on draft specification –
during July and August
• Launch of Invitation to Tender – mid-September
• Tender will close – mid-November
Key Target Dates – Continued...
• Tender evaluation and moderation will run from
November to the end of December
• Award of tender – early to mid-January 2014
• Mobilisation, transition and implementation –
January to end of March 2014
• Services commencement date – April 2014
Don’t forget to keep checking the Prevention web page
for summary of today’s information!
Children’s Centre Services Tender:
Briefing on Scope, Budgets, Timelines etc
Commissioning Managers:
Michael Robinson
mirobinson@northamptonshire.gov.uk
01604 367451
David Perrin
dperrin@northamptonshire.gov.uk
01604 367594
Children’s Centre Services Tender...
What’s in Scope?
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Delivering the “Core purpose” (National)
Adhering to refreshed statutory guidance (National)
Linking to SEND Developments (National & Northamptonshire)
Adhering to Northamptonshire’s “Thresholds & Pathways”
document
• Maximising use of NCC and Partners buildings
Children’s Centre Services Tender...
What’s in Scope (Cont)?
• Delivering to the Targeted Prevention principle
• Appropriate “Support Services – Children and families” activity
where child (ren) under 5. e.g. Parenting support
• Linking to Family Learning opportunities
• Maximising Volunteering opportunities
Indicative Budget and FEFM Split
Lot
Corby
Daventry
East Northants
Kettering
Northampton Central
Northampton East
Northampton North
Northampton West
Northampton Total
South Northants
Wellingborough
Total
Children’s Centre
Services Allocation
£1,164,832
£850,926
£999,363
£1.372.449
£1,029,039
£1,276,884
£763,825
£1.006.951
£4,076,699
£670,153
£1,269,288
£10,403,710
% of Total
Budget
11.20%
8.18%
9.61%
13.19%
9.89%
12.27%
7.34%
9.68%
39.19%
6.44%
12.2%
100%
Key Target Dates
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Cabinet approval – 11 June 2013
Today’s provider event – 17 July 2013
Consultation 5th July – 27th September
Specification Development – July to October
Cabinet report – 8th October
Prior Qualification Questionnaire launched – 16th
October
Key Target Dates – Continued...
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Invitation To Tender (ITT) launched – Early Dec 13
ITT Closes – Mid to late Jan 14
Evaluation and moderation – Late Jan and Feb 14
Award of tender – March 14
Mobilisation and transition period – April – Jun 14
Contract begins – Jul 14
Don’t forget to keep checking the Prevention web page
for summary of today’s information!
Current Children’s Centre Consultation
and its link to Service Tender:
• Quantitative and qualitative aspect
• Results of both to influence the specification
• Findings at County and “lot” level to be made available
to prospective bidders
• Possible Property implications
Maximising use of Assets
Expect bidders to grasp and indentify opportunities relating to
• Current Children’s Centre buildings
• Library buildings
• Health buildings
• Outreach via other organisations buildings
Other useful info for prospective bidders
• Align Strategic Outcomes to associated CC Outcomes. CC
outcomes will then be linked to key performance indicators
• Expect to contract with one “Lead” organisation per lot –
Consortiums can be formed but in the form of a
subcontracting relationship. Lead organisation will be
accountable for the overall total performance
• Current commitment that the indicated year 1 budget will
be evident in both year 2 and year 3
Further Details
• http://www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/en/counc
ilservices/socialcare/plans/prevent/Pages/Preventionstrategy.aspx