1 journey to excellence thriving children – strong families
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Journey to Excellence
thriving children – strong families
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Journey to Excellence
Together, the Council, its partners and families will focus our effort on using our available resources and partnerships to ensure:• Assertive and co-ordinated Early Help - build on
strengths & pull children away from vulnerabilities
• Excellent and nurturing care - pushes children & young people to succeed in adulthood
WHOLE SYSTEM
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Why now..?
• Increasing numbers of children needing care and protection
• Limited implementation of evidence based interventions
• Excessive demands on the ‘front door’ of specialist services
• No clear public access to Early Help
• Repeat calls for services and multiple assessments
• Lack of consistent model & clarity across agencies
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Children’s Plan principles…
• Think family
• Act early (and assertively)
• Take responsibility
• Work together (relationships are key)
• Use best practice and interventions that work
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Journey to Excellence
• Early Help – co-ordinated & assertive
• Excellent nurturing care & placements in Bradford District
• Rapid and effective response when young people are in crisis
• Integrated support to prepare young people with disabilities for adulthood
SIGNS OF SAFETY
Early Help
• Early Help offer required under ‘Working Together’
• Our local Early Help needs to:• Improve outcomes• Be more focused & assertive• Be better co-ordinated• Provide a single point of access
• We will build on• Families First• Better Start (Pilot area alongside Keighley)• Children’s Centres
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Whole family approach Q.1.What are priorities for the family?
Health-safeguarding Q.2 Are there any health/Safeguarding issues for the family?i.e. Are the family registered with GP – Dentist Or have they missed any appointments i.e Speech and language
Actions
Offer advice -supportMonitor Seek specialist help if required
Liaise with all agencies supporting family to ensure improved outcomes
Education Q.3 Are all the children attending school ?Do the family have any concerns about their child’s education
Actions
Offer advice-supportMonitor Seek specialist help if required
Focus on all children-young people in family
Crime/anti-social behavioursQ.4 Are any of the family involved in crime and anti social behavior ?Do the family have any concerns about its impact on the local community
Actions
Offer advice-supportMonitor Seek specialist help if required
Support Families on benefits out of poverty into training and work.
Q.5 Do adults in family want help into work? Offer advice and support into training and work Consider volunteering
Director’s 5 questions
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Range of existing services
New Early help Gateway Responding to public/professionals
District wide
Multi Agency Early Help Families of
concern meetings
Bradford Early Help Process
Child protection Social care front door
New Keeping my family safe course response to Domestic violence
New Parenting programmes
New Drug & alcohol programmes
New Multi agency clinicsMeeting monthly each constituency
New Early help hubs Drop in centres in constituencies Deliver advice /guidance and/or
short intervention
Families First assertiveoutreachto thosefamilies
who have Been offeredhelp but have failed to take
up and concerns
still present
New Enough is enough reducing Child violence against parent
programme
A range of what works interventions delivered in each constituency by multi agency staff
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Early Help - delivering improved family outcomes Tier 1
UNIVERSAL &
EARLY HELP
NEW
Multi agency approach to early help
Early Help assessment
Whole family approach -Directors 5 questions
Early response to problems
Reduce repeat referrals
Build resilience for families in local areas
Support families out of poverty into training & work
Clear step up entry point into targeted Early Help
Tier 2
TARGETED EARLY HELP FAMILIES FIRST
NEW
Multi agency approach to Targeted Early Help
Co-located Early Help access point for public & staff
Targeted Early Help assessment linked to signs of safety
Range of interventions focused on need delivered in locality setting
Strengthen family resilience to reduce repeat referrals
Families First support into training & work out of poverty
Performance contributing to Families First outcome plan
Clear step up & down process
Tier 3
TARGETED EARLY HELP FAMILIES FIRST
SOCIAL CARE –CHILD IN NEED
NEW
Multi agency approach to Targeted Early Help
Co-located Early Help access point for public & staff
Risk based approach based on repeat contacts
Assertive outreach for high risk non engaging families Early Help assessment linked to Signs of Safety
Range of interventions focused on need delivered in localities
Strengthen family resilience to reduce repeat referrals
Families First support into training & work out of poverty
Performance contributing to Families First outcome plan
Clear step up & down process
Tier 4
CHILD PROTECTION
LOOKED AFTER
CHILDREN
NEW
Clear step down process
Signs of safety assessment process
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Early Help contacts estimate Early Help Provision Monthly
Social care 25,000 (s/c)
Family information service 5,200 (fis)
New 5,200 (est)
Existing-refocus services /commissioned provision
300 a month
Step down (from s/c) 832 (est)
annual Total 36,232
Monthly total 3020
New/refocus -Early Help drop in centres 2 a week in each constituency
10 people x2 a week x4weeks x5cconsituencies
Plus 4 contacts to resolve issues
400 participants a month
Monthly flow
600 families do not follow thro (20%)
600 families advice/signposting universal/Early Help (20%)
600 families advised to be dealt with by universal/Early Help services (20%)
New/refocus -Multi agency Early Help clinics
May include the following Children's services, police, Health, Camhs, Youth .Offending .Team . Entry into work advisors, housing advice, vcs
New/refocus - Drug & alcohol clinics
2 a month in each constituency
10 people per clinic x 2 month x 5constituencies
100 participants a month
Once a month in each constituency
5 clinics x 5 appointments =25 a month
300 families already have a worker who will work with the family in whole family way (10%)
150 families require assertive outreach Targeted Early Help –Families First tier 3 (10%)
New/refocus – to respond to incidents of domestic violence ‘ Keeping your family safe course’
Once a month each constituency
10 adults 4 week course x 5 const.=
50 participants
Targeted Early Help Families first tier 2/3 monthly needing intervention 1070
New/refocus –to respond to incidents of repeat Marital custody disputes which impact on the children
‘working together to raise happy children meetings’
3 sessions a week per const x 5= 60 participants
New/Refocus to issues which can be addressed by
Parenting courses & Enough is Enough
(Child violence towards parents course)
5 parenting courses per month per cont=50
1 Enough is enough course per month x10 adults per month =10
Revised 14 October 2015
Families First /team around family/yot restorative justice clinics
150 a month
Signs of Safety
• Developed in West Australia in 1990s
• Solution-focused with a robust focus on risk & safety
• Key principles• Safety is always the goal• Changes happens when there are constructive
working relationships• Everyone should take an enquiring approach• Developed from what practitioners and family
members said works best
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Signs of Safety
• Assessment and planning tool − Three columns:• What we are worried about (past harm, future
danger, complicating factors),• What is working well (existing strengths and safety)• What needs to happen (family and child protection
authority goals and next steps for future safety)
•Scaling question: where are we on a sale of zero to ten (where ‘ten’ means safe to close the case and ‘zero’ means the child must be removed)
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Signs of Safety
• Engaging children in assessment and planning:
• Three Houses (good things, worries, wishes)
• Words and pictures tool for explaining what’s happening
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Signs of Safety - outcomes
• Families more empowered - understand the concerns & what needs to change
• Work more intensively to build child safety
• Practitioners report greater job satisfaction:• clarity of the approach• usefulness of the tools and the• impact for children
• Number of children removed from families reduces
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Looked after children placements within Bradford
• Integrated support for:• Steps to success in learning & education• Good health & emotional well-being• Safe, nurturing & aspirational care
• Resilient families, carers and children
• Well matched care & placements
• Smaller children’s homes
• More foster carers for teenagers
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Rapid and effective response to crisis
• Building on Mental Health partnerships
• More safe spaces
• Integrated Rapid Response/emergency ‘all ages’ hub
• Focus on Missing & Child Sexual Exploitation
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Integrated support to prepare for adulthood
• Integrated service lead by Adults Services
• Young people with disabilities aged 14 plus
• Integrating Social care, Occupational Therapy, health transitions & Continuing Health Care
• Personal Budgets & more use of Direct Payments
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Integrated support to prepare for adulthood
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Success…
• Increase access to health services
• Improve educational attendance and outcomes
• Reduce domestic violence
• More families out of poverty
• Reduce crime and anti-social behaviour
• More children and young people with disabilities directing their own support
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Success…
• Reduce contacts and re-referrals to social care
• Reduce numbers of Child Protection Plans
• More children safely remaining/returning home
• Reduce numbers of looked after children
• Reduce children cared for outside of the Bradford District
Board is asked to:
• Endorse the overarching Journey to Excellence programme
• Endorse partnership support to the overarching programme
• Endorse the Early Help model
• Note plans for pilots in Keighley & the Better Start areas
• Endorse and provide partnership support to the use of Signs of Safety from Early Help through to Child Protection. Discuss sharing costs of training.
• Note further consultation will be undertaken between January to March 2016
• Agree to take a further report and Early Help Plan following consultation
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