Northamptonshire
Children’s Centres
Helping You to Help Yourself
Alex Hopkins
LGA Forecast National Income and Expenditure Paths
Income falling 19% in cash terms, 23 % in real terms over this 9 year period
Expenditure increases 14% in cash terms over decade, but unprecedented 6% fall in
real terms
LGA Forecast NCC Service Expenditure with Funding
Social Care - Children
Environment (inc Waste)
Social Care - Adults
Money available for all other services
£500
£450
£400
£300
£250
£200
£150
£100
£50
2019/20
2018/19
2017/18
2016/17
2015/16
2014/15
2013/14
2012/13
2011/12
£0
2010/11
£ (million)
£350
Prevention and
Demand Management
Janet Doran
Assistant Director - Community Services
What next for the Prevention and
Demand Management strategy?
9th October – Cabinet decision
• Agree not to implement a lead locality
provider in each locality due to the impact of
the MTFP budget position
• Continue to delegate authority to Director, in
consultation with Cabinet Member to extend,
vary or terminate contracts etc.
• Receive an update on the FEFF following
receipt of census information
Prevention and Demand
Management
Social
Care Staff
CCL
Staff
Contracted
Services
Business
Systems
Vulnerable
individuals/families
/communities
Other Statutory
Services
Data
Performance
Information
Targeted Prevention Team
• Home Based Service
• Targeted Support for families that are willing to
change
• Intervention when children and young people are
at significant risk of being excluded from their
families, education and community
• Designed:
– to promote wellbeing and positive social behaviour whilst
decreasing negative behaviours that might result in families
escalating into high cost specialist interventions.
Team Structure
Bernadette Caffrey
Targeted Prevention Manager
Community Services
Brian Bodsworth
Team Manager
Northampton
Daventry & South
Northants
St John’s, Tiffield
John Kelly
Team Manager
Northampton
St John’s, Tiffield
Sarah Hillier
Team Manager
Wellingborough/
East Northants
Tithe Barn, Wboro
Christine York
Team Manager
Corby/Kettering
Gainsborough
Rd Ctr, Corby
Sham Hanif
South
Community
Project Officer
Sharon Stringer
North
Community
Project Officer
Jackie Donegal
Paul Lucas
Karen Gardner
Anita Longstaff
Area Support
Officers
Area Support
Officers
1 xVacancy
Corby/Kettering
Louise Woods
South Northants
Lyndsey
Gonulkirmaz
Northampton East
Victoria Pinney
Wellingborough
and East
Northants
Jyoti Appiah
Katie Flanagan
Ranjit Sohal
Loretta White
Deborah Gordon
X1 Vacancy
Senior
Practitioners
Senior
Practitioners
Anna Woodward
Em Moore
Kathrine Cugini
Graham Old
1 x vacancy
Rosanna Colantonio
Kevin Standishday
Lynn Bolton
Bev Wright-Douglas
Jackie Jones
Emily Kay
Thelma Nix
Margaret Dyer
Stacey Lovell
x1 vacancy
Jonathan Buck
Kathryn McCool
Gillian McBride
Meera Thakkar
Debbie Robinson
Prevention
Practitioners
Prevention
Practitioners
Prevention
Practitioners
Prevention
Practitioners
Caralyn Hillyard
South
Parenting Support
Co-ordinator
Lin Painting – Gypsy Roma and Traveller Worker
Anwarul Momen – Bangladeshi Worker
Senior
Practitioners
Senior
Practitioners
Debra Bartlett
North
Parenting Support
Co-ordinator
Kerrie Marks (Mat
Leave)
Northampton West
Joanne Brown
Daventry
Targeting Support
– Families where a need has been assessed
through the Children’s Social Care, but not
requiring Children’s Social Care interventions
– Post Child Protection Plan – benefiting from a
post deregistration support package to reduce
the likelihood of them returning into the social
care system and been reregistered. Work will
focus on building resilience and reducing risk.
– YOS
– Persistent high risk Anti-social Behaviour
Current Work on Pathways
• One Front Door
• Agreed Thresholds- referral system
• Integrated Working Procedure Review
• CAF – review and alignment with Prevention
Developing a New Service
Constant Services
– Schools
– Children’s Centres
– TPT
Variable Services
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–
–
–
Domestic Violence
Drugs and Alcohol
Parenting Support
Low Level Mental Health Support
• What blend of services do we need as we move forward?
The future Role of Children’s Centres
• Taking into account budget reductions – can
children’s centres work in clusters to develop
savings proposals of 10% and 20% that would
minimise impact on service delivery?
• Identify the opportunities and risks with
regard the introduction of charging for some
services? (questions on tables)
Troubled Families
Troubled Families Programme - Overview
‘Troubled families’ are households who:
• Are involved in crime and anti‐social behaviour
(ASB)
• Have children not in school and
• Have an adult on out of work benefits
Further detail underpinning Three “filters” indicated
in Guidance
Thus by implication they cause high cost to public
purse
Troubled Families Programme
Salient points:
• We are “required” to “turn around” 1200
families over 3 years
• We will need to work with more families not all will be “turned around”
• Payment by Results; “Results” defined by
programme
Troubled Families Programme
Progress so far
• 157 meet 3/3, 667 - 2/3 criteria, across a
spectrum of need
• Database developed
• Co-ordinator role ratified
• Wider information sharing agreement drafted
• Stakeholder meetings in place
• Commissioned service review undertaken
• Full project plan in place.