Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme David Chater NCCTC July 2015

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What do we mean by innovation? More than improvement “if delivered at scale it would fundamentally change the way the system works” - Developing ideas - Testing and improving ideas, including from a different setting - Scaling and spreading While there was a strong focus on addressing failure, at the inception of the programme there was limited national support for moving to good or outstanding approaches Almost 300 expressions of interest submitted Worked with around 78 of these to develop full proposals 53 projects funded

Deloitte UK screen 4:3 (19.05 cm x cm) Portfolio of Projects 47% of English top tier local authorities are involved in the programme either as a lead or partner to project There are projects from all 9 regions Certain regions, such as London, have greater coverage. However, this is to be expected due to the population density and number of local authorities represented. Of all projects: 19% are in the ‘develop ideas’ phase of innovation (i1) 60% are classified as ‘test and improve’ (i2) 21% are classified as ‘scale and spread’ (i3) 55% projects have a local authority lead 72% of projects were submitted by existing providers within the sector. 11% are new entrants to the sector whilst 17% are those organisations which have diversified into the sector. Provider Type: Organisations Project maturityCoverage

Deloitte UK screen 4:3 (19.05 cm x cm) Portfolio of Projects Key statistics Primary Idea Type: New models of social work practice 13% Fostering and adoption 8% Care leaver/ housing 4% National system transformation 6% Targeted safeguarding 11% Repeat removals 2% Alternative delivery models 8% Project types – number of projectsTheme – number of projects Therapeutic models 11% Residential care 8% Team around social worker 8% Whole system change 8% Commissioning 4% Family justice 4% Edge of care 2% New social work model 2% Workforce development 2% Data- driven system 2% Theme - budget Proportion of project spend planned against system category

Deloitte UK screen 4:3 (19.05 cm x cm) Where are the main providers based? Comments: This map shows where the lead organisation is based. A number of projects are partnering with local authorities outside of these regions. Key: Children’s social work Adolescents Other Tri-borough South East RB Windsor and Maidenhead Hampshire CC ASurrey CC University of Kent West Sussex CC 16% of top tier English local authorities are providers in the programme South West Gloucestershire CC Torbay Council Yorkshire Doncaster CST Leeds CC ACalderdale MBC North Yorkshire CC Sheffield CC East Midlands NE Lincolnshire CC North East Newcastle CC Durham CC (x2) East of England Hertfordshire CC ACambridgeshire CC Norfolk & Suffolk FT Priory Education Services West Midlands Match Foster Care Stoke-on-Trent CC North West Stockport MBC ASefton Council Wigan Council (x2) London Achieving for Children Cornerstone Partnership LB Islington NSPCC (New Orleans) Triborough ALB Ealing LB Enfield LB Hackney NLCEP Haringey St Christopher’s Fellowship TBAP Action for Children MOPAC National/multiple regions Barnardo's and LGA Catch 22 Council for Disabled Children Coram Frontline Morning Lane MTM NSPCC (SCRs) Safe Families Tavistock & Portman Fostering Network NIS Daybreak FGC Pause

Deloitte UK screen 4:3 (19.05 cm x cm) Where are the local authority partners based? London Barnet Brent Bromley Camden Croydon Enfield Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith and Fulham Haringey Harrow Hounslow Islington Kensington & Chelsea Lambeth Newham Southwark Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest Westminster East Midlands Derbyshire Leicestershire Lincolnshire Rutland East of England Bedford Cambridgeshire Central Bedfordshire Essex Hertfordshire Norfolk Peterborough Suffolk North East Darlington Durham Gateshead Middlesbrough Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumberland Stockton-On-Tees North West Bolton Bury Manchester Oldham Rochdale Salford Stockport Tameside Trafford South East Bracknell Forest Buckinghamshire East Sussex Kent Milton Keynes Surrey West Berkshire West Sussex Windsor and Maidenhead Wokingham South West Bristol Cornwall Wiltshire West Midlands Dudley Birmingham Stoke-on-Trent Yorkshire Barnsley Calderdale City of York Doncaster Kingston Upon Hull City Leeds Rotherham Wakefield 45% of top tier English local authorities are partners in the programme

Rethinking Support for Adolescents. 11,000 adolescents enter the care system every year, 39% of all care-entries This age group also makes up 45% of Children in Need Anti-social behaviour, family breakdown and acute family stress account for majority of adolescent entries to care. More than three-quarters of adolescent enter care with the agreement of their parents. The same proportion return to their family on leaving care, though often unsuccessfully (40% will re-enter care within five years). Around a third of adolescents in care have recently committed an offence. The same proportion are misusing drugs or alcohol.

What Were we Looking For? 9 Priorities for the Adolescent strand of the programme: ‘reshaping care as a stable base from which to move into adulthood’ to provide a safe, stable place to grow up (in care or back with the family) and providing a launchpad to living independently, continuing in education and finding employment. ‘a broader, more effective response to families reaching crisis point’. to include intensive work with young people and families to prevent entry to care, and similarly intensive work to help young people return home successfully ‘a positive new approach to residential care, including diversity of provision’ to include stronger partnerships between care and education services, making better use of residential care to assess need and support other placements or a successful return home. ‘a No Wrong Door service for adolescents’ to integrate the different agencies involved in working with them, reduce bureaucracy and management costs and take a joint approach to managing risk. We said successful approaches would be likely to emphasise a strong relationship between staff and young people, and to allow the time and consistency required to make the necessary changes. We recognised that this would likely involve an intensive, carefully targeted service.

Specific Bids 10 Ealing Council £3.5m Ealing Council are planning to implement a new ‘Intensive Engagement Model’ to transform their social care system for adolescents – with a strong focus on radically expanding and reshaping their fostering service. Children will be involved in developing their own care plans, and choosing their lead worker based on who they trust or have the best relationship with. The money will also be used to help support young people in care placed away from their local area to move closer to home. Their plan is to do this by; a) re-designing how they deliver their services, b) shifting power and decision making, c) providing intensive early support to young people, families and carers, d) Identifying one lead professional, e) providing responsive 24/7 services, f) Increasing choice and power and g) radically reshaping their Fostering service. Sefton Council £1.1m Sefton Council plan to develop a new community based adolescent programme. The programme brings together local youth justice, family intervention, substance misuse and social work staff to create a single integrated service for young people on the edge of care. The new hub and spoke model will coordinate agencies into a single multi-disciplinary service to better support young people in the most risky situations has the potential to be transformative for those individuals. They aim to have one referral, one worker and one plan where this is possible, recognising that some young people will require support from existing services but this will be supported by the key worker. The scheme will place a particular focus on young people at risk of involvement with gangs, child sexual exploitation or likely to go missing from home or care, NEET, known to troubled families, CP/CLA/CIN. The Council have estimated they have 141 young people (12-25) who meet the criteria for this proposed service Enfield £2.07m Enfield plan to create a new adolescent service, working intensively with a targeted cohort of young people aged 11+ reducing entries to care, engagement with the criminal justice system and other harmful behaviours. The presence of multiple indicators of risk (eg. high risk young offenders, recent episodes of involvement with children’s services, association with gang activity) is used to identify an “edge of care” cohort expected to be at least 160 young people each year. Social workers lead assessments and coordinate a support programme delivered by a mixed team of professionals including youth workers, a teacher, psychologists, play therapists and healthy living advisers. Gloucestershire (£1.52m) to redesign its adolescent services into multi-disciplinary teams (mental health, youth support and young offending, LAC, CP and CiN) managed at arm’s length from the council.

Specific Bids 11 North Yorkshire (£2.1m) to implement their ‘no wrong door’ approach This will see specialist foster carers working alongside 2 children’s homes to provide better support – including help with mental health, education and rebuilding links with their families – for up to 700 young people. The model includes testing a ‘staying close’ approach to supporting care leavers up to age 21. St Christopher’s - £1.2m St Christopher’s plan to provide semi-secure (special care) accommodation for young women who would otherwise be placed in secure accommodation on welfare grounds, particularly those at risk of child sexual exploitation. The semi-secure model is one adapted from other European countries. It includes a greater focus on therapeutic care and a level of restriction of liberty than current secure children’s homes. TBAP Trust –£1.3m Tri Borough Alternative Provision (TBAP) Trust run Good and Outstanding Alternative Provision Academies in West London, including The Bridge AP Academy. They want to extend their successful approach to include a residential offer to young people at risk of entering care. Every year, approximately 12 young people leave TBAP temporarily as a result of placement breakdown, family crisis or the need for respite care. A number of others leave permanently because they enter care and are placed away from their current home, or because they enter custody. The residence approach would provide a place for young people (and in some instances their families) to stay whilst continuing to access a consistent education, and preventing young people from needing to access placements outside of London. Stoke-on-Trent Council (£588k) to develop ‘the house project’, a housing co-operative that is led by young care leavers using homes owned by the council. The project will provide young people with the right skills to manage their own home and live in the co-operative aiming to reduce long term homelessness, youth offending and anti-social behaviour. Care leavers can remain within their homes for as long as they want and they are aiming to reach 10 young people (aged 16+) in the first year. Calderdale Council (£727k) to provide a bespoke package of different housing and placement options for adolescents. This will include boarding school places, a respite children’s home and a form of ‘staying close’ support for young people leaving residential care.

Specific Bids 12 Sheffield and South Yorkshire Councils (£1.2m) To develop a sub-regional delivery model for young people experiencing or at risk of child sexual exploitation. This will include recruitment, development and support of specialist foster carers to provide safe placements for young people across South Yorkshire. Local authorities involved are Sheffield, Barnsley, Rotherham and Doncaster. Other partners are LSCBs in these areas and South Yorkshire Police. Wigan and Rochdale Councils (£956k) To find alternatives to high cost and secure accommodation for victims of, or those at risk of, child sexual exploitation, to improve outcomes for those young people and their families. They plan to develop and deliver a research programme and pilot which involves testing a new hub and spoke social care service model with 30 young people in Wigan and Rochdale, with the intention of scaling this up across Greater Manchester local authorities. Mayor’s Office of Policing and Crime MOPAC (£558k) To identify and protect children from Female Genital Mutilation across 5 London Boroughs.

How to find out more 13 -Still early delivery stage for some projects -Expectation with funding that they help to scale and spread what they learn. e.g. ADCS speed dating, regional innovation forum, links with RiP and others -Learning programme – webinars, programme newsletter, reports -Evaluation programme co-ordinated nationally by the Rees Centre. Reports published following end of programme March Details of all funded projects, latest news and programme updates available at