‘Think Family’

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The Hertfordshire Context

Review of Integrated Practice - 2 years on

Reducing unnecessary escalation Improving use of CAF process Revised thresholds for accessing services Multi-Agency Targeted Advice Service (interim)

Strengthening Early Intervention & Prevention

Moving from virtual to actual Teams Around the child Maximising capacity to intervene Locally based multi-agency teams Based on the Think Families Approach

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38 Multi-agency locality teams

Maternity &Primary Health

82 Children’sCentres

38 ExtendedSchool Consortia

IntegratedYouth Support

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Joined up community health services for children under 3 Jointly commission with PCT and GPs

Children’s Centres a ‘universal offer’ of early years development and wider services for families

Schools to promote standards, well-being and resilience? School clusters to work in partnership with commissioning budget for prevention and early intervention?

Systematic arrangements for early intervention – review ‘what works’ – put in place joint financial strategy across Children’s Trust

‘Youth Offer’ and scope for other specialist services?

Actual multi-agency teamsLink the teams to school clusters?

Budget holding LPs?

‘Think Family’ focus on families with challenges. Strong links to adult services, health, housing and others.

•Better screening and clearer thresholds reduce referrals.•High impact early intervention and family support reduce CP/CLA•Less demand gives scope for higher quality

Improved joint commissioning with Health, and better coordination of transition with ACS

A Spine of Service Delivery for Children and Families

UNIVERSAL Joined up community health services for children under 3 Children’s Centres – a universal offer of early years development and

wider services for families Schools working in clusters to promote standards, well-being and

resilience

TARGETED Actual multi-agency teams developed around extended schools Think Family focus on families with challenges

SPECIALIST• Support for children in care, children with CP Plans, offenders,

children with mental health issues

Hertfordshire – the work so far

Hertfordshire’s 1st ‘Think Family’ Conference – March 2009

Hertfordshire Think Family Practitioners

Family Intervention Programme (South Oxhey)

Development of local ‘Think Family’ teams (2010/12)

Housing Challenge Projects (2010/11)

Learning from existing projects (e.g. C2 projects, Drug Intervention Programme)

Hertfordshire – the way forward

A spine of services that secure better outcomes for children,

young people and families through a holistic approach to

identification, assessment and intervention

By co-ordinating effectively the support provided from children’s

services, adult services, health services, the police, VCS and

others

The Think Family approach………………………….