Inspiring Families
Awareness Presentation
Meeting the Troubled
Families/ Families First
Agenda in Cheltenham
V4 11/2012
IF Project: Troubled Families
Who are they?
Cause high costs to the public purse
 No adult in the family working
 Children not in school
 Family members involved in crime and
antisocial behaviour
Local discretion factor:
 Child Poverty
IF Project: Troubled Families
Programme Aim
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Change the trajectory for these families
Change the way services are delivered to them
- re-designing these services for longer term
Taking a ‘strategic and systematic’ approach.
IF Project: Troubled Families
PBR - Terms and Conditions
£4,000
• At least one
adult has
moved off
working age
benefits and
into continuous
employment in
past six months
or
£3,900
£100
• Reduction in
exclusions and
truancy over
three terms , a
60% reduction
in anti-social
behaviour and
a 33%
reduction in
youth offending
in past six
months
• No adults have
entered work ,
but they have
made “progress
to work”, such
as volunteering
for the Work
Programme in
past six months
IF Project: Troubled Families
Data Sets
• GCC is collating data currently held- within IS guidelines
• Partners are sharing TF data – within IS guidelines
• Regulations have been changed nationally to allow DWP
to share data for the purpose of supporting TF
• Police; YOS; probation; housing are sharing TF data
Matching the data sets is taking time....
However, Cheltenham currently
has 127 children within 64 families
on the present list.
County Structure
IF Project: Troubled Families
Delivery in Gloucestershire: Families First
Sponsoring Groups & Programme Board
Process planning, Data Analysis/ Tracking,
Delivery, and Finance Groups
Positive Lives Partnership (District Partnership)
IF Steering Group (Local Delivery Group)
Team Around the Family
(including the Trusted Individual)
IF Project: Families First Delivery
County Pathway
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Troubled Family Identified
Local multi-agency discussion
Identify best contact for family
Contact visits family to gain consent
Family gives consent
Family identifies TI
Approved TI forms TAF
Case Work
Audit Process
Funding Claim Process
Transition Process
Inspiring Families Project:
Delivering Families First in Cheltenham
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Created by CSP in response to high concentration of child poverty
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Developed through partner approach:
– To provide support for families and communities
– To impact on families in the long-term
– To build the capacity of families to make decisions that would
lead to a more positive path
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Designed in order to:
– Support families live successfully as part of their community
– Lead to families being able to continue making positive choices
without support services
– Align existing resources to create a sustainable delivery model
www.GlosFamiliesDirectory.org.uk, type in ‘ifcheltenham’
Inspiring Families Project
Agencies who have helped develop IF
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Cheltenham Borough Council (CBC)
Cheltenham ASB Working Group
Cheltenham Strategic Partnership
Total Place
Cheltenham Borough Homes (CBH)
Gloucestershire County Council
Gloucestershire Police
County Community Partnership (CCP)
Cheltenham West End Partnership
Family Action Programme (FAP)
Adult Education In Glos
The Rock
Third Sector Services
Rethink
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NHS Glos
Family Information Services (FIS)
Homegroup/ Stonham
Fairshares Glos
People and Places in Glos
Independence Trust
Integrated Youth Services
Hester’s Way Partnership
Cheltenham Ladies College
University of Gloucestershire
Primary Schools
Children Centres
Community Resource Centres
IF is seeking more partners to support families and community strands.
Please contact us if your agency is interested in joining the IF Project.
Inspiring Families Project
Strands
IF helps all people become ‘successful’ by:
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Intensive interventions that target families
with complex needs. Support includes:
– Trusted individual negotiates with the family
– Single plan through asset map
– Monitoring from Outcome Star Tool
TM
Inspiring Families Project
Trusted Individual:
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Overviews whole journey
Removes support barriers
Monitors journey and records learning
Advocates for family when needed
Identifies who works with family at all stages
Inspiring Families Project
Asset Map
Places
We Go
Our Gifts
Who We
Are
Our Family
Our
Stories
Our
Networks
Agencies
We Work
With
Inspiring Families Project
Outcomes Star Tool
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http://www.outcomesstar.org.uk/
Inspiring Families Project
Strands
IF helps all people become ‘successful’ by:
Wider community support aimed to help families
by aligning exciting embedded resources to reduce
intensive services needed. Includes:
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Links to economic wellbeing initiatives
Timebanking and volunteering
Student reward scheme
Veg box scheme
Befriending programme
Active Steps training
Universal support
Inspiring Families Project
How could IF benefit your organisation?
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Additional support and resources for most
challenging families
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Opportunity to get involved in wider
community issues
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Added opportunities for your clients
Inspiring Families Project
How can you help?
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Disseminate this presentation to relevant staff members.
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Arrange an individual meeting with IF to discuss how your organisation
can become involved in IF.
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Identify families that you work with who you feel would meet the
criteria. Send this information to IF to compare to the compiled list.
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Arrange a meeting with IF to discuss individual families you work with
who are on the TF list.
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Identify staff who may benefit from further training around Families
First or Inspiring Families.
– 3 hr training during day or broken into 2 pm sessions
Contact Details:
Samantha Morine, IF Project Officer
01242 77 5172
sam.morine@cheltenham.gov.uk
Charles Welsh, IF Chair/ Primary Head
01242 51 5775 or 01242 51 5761
head@gardnerslane.gloucs.sch.uk
Tracy Brown, CYP Partnership Officer- CBC
01242 77 5176
tracy.brown@cheltenham.gov.uk
For More Information:
IF Project Information for Families:
www.glosfamiliesdirectory.org.uk
Type in ‘IF Cheltenham’
IF Project Information for Professionals:
cheltenhampartnership.org.uk/info/21/project_information
Click on ‘Inspiring Families’
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