Early Help procedures CAF and Development team 22 January 2014 Background searches • Any service who is thinking of completing a CAF assessment can request a background check • Results say whether child has: – CAF assessment / Lead Professional – Social worker / Family Support Worker – School exclusions – any other requests for background checks • Findings can help inform next steps Background searches Background searches by agency Quarter 3 2013/14 Quarter 1 6.5% 2% 1% 1% 1% 18% 17% 1% Housing Quarter 2 Inclusion MARAC 9% Other PFSY Police 13% Schools Voluntary organisations Warrington Hospital YOT 1% 45% Quarter 3 17% CAF assessments • Any practitioner can complete a CAF assessment on a child / young person • CAF assessments should be completed if a child has unmet needs but not a safeguarding issue • Based on working with the child / young person and family – need consent to complete a CAF CAF assessments Quarter 1 CAF assessments by agency Quarter 3 2013/14 1% 9% 24% Quarter 2 Health visiting Inclusion 9% 37% PFSY Schools Warrington Hospital 9% Quarter 3 0% 21% Lead Professionals • Lead Professionals are responsible for holding family support meetings • Family Support meetings aim to agree a support plan for the child / young person and family • Family Support plans should be reviewed regularly and the Lead Professional can be reassigned based on changing needs / priorities of the plan Lead Professionals Review and closure plans (FSM03 / 04) by agency Quarter 3 - 2013 / 14 Quarter 1 3% 1% 2% 1% Quarter 2 Health Visiting 36% 38% Inclusion PFSY 8% Schools School Health Advisers Voluntary sector Quarter 3 1% 22% What can we do to support? • Family Support leaflets to share with clients • Free training courses available • Available to visit teams and offer awareness training sessions • Telephone and email advice and guidance – Tel. 01925 44 3136 / 3162 / 3306 – Email [email protected] [email protected] • Anything else? Complex Families Programme Kelly Claffey Complex Families Co-ordinator National definition – Troubled Families Troubled Families Unit (TFU) identified common factors as: 1. On out of work benefits 2. Poor school attendance/exclusions/Pupil Referral Unit 3. Anti-social behaviour/Youth Crime 4. Other local indicators (Child Protection, Domestic Abuse, Poor Mental / Physical Health, Poverty, Drugs / Alcohol, Teenage Pregnancy …) Locally defined as families that are subject to intergenerational cycles of poverty and low achievement, negative long terms outcomes and high users of public services. ONLY integrated support will help them Locally in Warrington – Complex Families • An evaluation of our multi-agency working practices and how these can be improved • In particular how we co-ordinate whole family intervention, bringing together adult and children providers in one plan • Not a new service – Services are already working with the families Delivery • Target to identify and work with 345 families • Payment by results framework • Governance Group structure – Direction of travel for the programme – Decision re spend/investment – focus on innovation/doing things differently • Identified by data screening and nominations from partners • Virtual Team delivery – being trained in whole family intervention and identify barriers to this Progress to date • 285 families identified – working with 238 (84%) • Turned around 75 (23%) • Investment: – Gaps in low level MH provision for adults –piloting a service – Gaps in relation to provision around low level DA support and how needs in this area are identified –Project to evaluate this – Intelligence on anti-social behaviour difficult to monitor – Intelligence officer to collate and share with partners – Operational support to co-ordinate whole family support – Team Leader Post What have we learnt so far • Not all families need intensive support • Existing multi-agency pathways such as Family Support Model, MARAC, Navigate, New Directions working well but families can be in more than 1 pathway • Multiple data/case management systems to monitor families so difficult to track progress/outcomes • Families missing – data screening not always the most effective method, need nominations • Capacity to be a Lead Professional for a family • Consent to share information – different approaches to this • Lack of background searches so agencies do not know who is working with who Voluntary Sector Engagement 1. How should the Sector be represented at a Governance level? 2. What is the best way to communicate developments and funding opportunities to the sector? 3. What is the best way to engage organisations and nominate families? Contact details Kelly Claffey Complex Families Co-ordinator 01925 443302 Margaret Rowland Complex Families Virtual Team Leader 01925 443152
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