Working Together With Families : Making that difference Gail Porter Programme Director Total Family

Ambition Lancashire’s corporate commitment to radically improve the resilience, experience, and outcomes of families who access and use services across Lancashire Lancashire’s Children and Young People’s Trust strategic focus on transforming the way services are delivered to the most complex families, by dealing with issues sooner in a more coordinated way, to achieve better outcomes.

Total Family approaches – building a workforce plan Outcomes: Shared leadership focus and ambition for 'independent but supported families' across all services Family focussed approaches and outcomes embedded across all services Effective delivery of family support through collaborative learning Effective delivery of family support through evidence-based procedures, processes and practice

Total Family approaches – building a workforce plan Activity: Communication and engagement (what) Evidence base (how) Policy (parenting strategy, NEET strategy, economic development & skills strategy, etc) Targeted delivery (strategic Solihull training, National Occupational standards for working with parents) Action learning (Working Together With Families)

Working Together With Families - approach Strategic – leading a new model of partnership working - with families at the heart - to reduce duplication and repeat demands on services and release resources for investment elsewhere including in early support; Operational – delivering demonstration models in 4 districts to test out what works best with families with complex needs, and examining the added value of 3rd sector provision; Cultural – championing a fundamental shift in the way public sector professionals work with families ('done with, not done to') and identifying the workforce development required to embed changes to working practice.

Working Together With Families - activity Workforce development: Role of the lead professional – current versus future role, responsibilities and actual experience on the ground, budget holding role, support and development requirements? Working with families – behaviours and skills needed to work effectively with families and embed independence. What do we have in place now and what do we need for the future?

Challenges Integrating the Total Family/Working Together With Families priority in the other priority strands Aligning activity and the workforce implications Integral versus additional Money.