Supporting (Troubled) Families in
Hampshire
Winchester City Council Provider
Event
July 2013
Background – National Programme
• Civil unrest over 5 days of August 2011
• Prime Minister’s commitment re 120,000 families
• Troubled Family Unit – Department for Communities and Local
Government
• Emphasis on Public Services working differently together
• National Efficiency – Families cost £9bn per year (£75,000 each p/a) and
cross cut every Public Sector Agency
The Hampshire ‘ambition’
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1,590 families across Hampshire over the next 3 years (approx 80-90 in
Winchester)
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Improved outcomes and lasting positive changes to the lives of
families
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Greater inter-agency coordination and more effective partnership
working with whole families
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Challenging and changing the way we work – Not just more of the
same
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3 year programme, but sustainable transformational change
National definition
Troubled families are households who:
1. Are involved in youth crime and/or anti-social behaviour;
2. Have children not in school (<85% attendance, 3 fixed term exclusions,
permanently excluded, or head teacher discretion);
3. Have an adult on out of work benefits.
…..and as a result cause high costs to the public purse.
DCLG funding claimed for those families meeting at least two of the three
criteria
Local discretion filters can also be used by partners.
Not about chasing the money – if a family will benefit they will be included
Programme Structure and Governance
STFP Partnership Board
(Chair: Cllr Keith Mans)
DCLG Troubled Families
Unit
STFP Management Group
(Chair: Paul Archer, Director
Policy & Governance, HCC)
HCC Accountable Body
STFP Strategic Coordinator and Programme
Team
Ian Langley, Gary Westbrook, Volker Buck
Delivery Approach
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Multi Agency Identification of Families
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Single Family Plans for every family
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Twin Track Approach – Intensive Support Service and Local Solutions
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Independent Evaluation and Strategic Business Case
495
Families
1,095
Families
“TRANSFORM” Centrally
commissioned Intensive Family
Support Services
Locally determined solutions
The Single Family Plan
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Not another assessment
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Sharing information at the family level – no organisation has the
complete picture
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Simple action plan – what will make the difference
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Looking at the whole family and not just individual members
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Joined up approach – 1 family, 1 plan, 1 joined up approach
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SafetyNet
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Family engagement and consent
What’s new about this approach?
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1 Family, 1 Plan, One joined up approach
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Not a new service to “refer” into. But a new way of working
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One agency/one professional leading the work (doesn’t mean they ‘do
everything’)
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Using existing assessments rather than further resource being used for
further assessment
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Statutory & voluntary agencies working & targeting precious resources
together
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Family based information/intelligence sharing
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It’s everybody’s core business!
Year One Progress
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10 Local Coordination groups and SROs in place
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Year 1 cohort (530 families) identified
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Single family plans and lead agencies in place for approximately 500
families
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SafetyNet – Single “family” view
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Evaluation Partner (University of Portsmouth) appointed
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Intensive Family Support Service (IFSS) provider appointed
Year Two and Next Steps
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Family Engagement
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Nominations to “Transform”
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Monitoring progress with year 1 families
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Year 2 cohort of families
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Embedding a new way of sharing information and joining up service
delivery at the family level…