1. Working Together With Families Overview & Context
Supt Richard Spedding

2. Working Together With Families - 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.

3. Working Together With Families - approach
The new approach focuses on increasing a family’s resilience and resourcefulness, and reducing their risk and dependency.
It builds on existing practice including family group conferencing, vulnerable adolescence, and Family Intervention projects, etc.
It recognises the ‘mixed economy’ of provision and includes the commissioning of the 3rd sector to work directly with families to prevent children coming into care.

4. 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.

5. Working Together With Families - activity
Principles:
Keep It Simple
Don't re-invent the wheel
Integrate/ align with existing developments (national/local) e.g. CAF, Troubled Families, district CYP Trust commissioning, etc.
System change, not another initiative

6. Reduce the Parental/Service Strain

7. Family Route Map

8. What Have We Learnt? Family identification challenge
Information sharing
Innovative leadership = a definite!
Risky partners – do those barriers really exist?
Translates CYPT strategy to operational delivery
Communication & confidence = key
Workforce development
Governance and accountability = key to success
Planning and best practice
Family ID a positive though as agencies become aware of who is dealing with who!
Move forward families will be ID’d = big positive

9. So – Need to Get Your Ducks in a Row!

10. Troubled Families Programme

12. Context: Who are the 120,000 most troubled families?
On the basis of the current definition, the most troubled families have at least five of the following:
No parent in the family in work
The family lives in poor quality or overcrowded housing;
No parent has a qualification;
The mother has mental health problems;
At least 1 parent has a longstanding limiting illness, disability or infirmity;
The household income is below the poverty line; and
The family cannot afford a number of food and clothing items.
306k families with children with behavioural problems
290k families at risk of severe exclusion
These are typically families who have histories of intergenerational poor educational outcomes, lows skills and worklessness. The challenge is to break this cycle and raise the ceiling of ambition for them.
120k families with 5+ disadvantages
50k families with 5+ disadvantages AND children with behavioural problems

13. Troubled Families Programme Background
Delivery – DCLG offer 40% of the cost of interventions that can help to turn around the lives of troubled families, payable primarily on the achievement of successful outcomes.
Preparation Funding – All upper-tier LA's offered £20k in Feb 2012 to help them and their partners prepare for the introduction of the new arrangements.
Defining Troubled Families – Each LA was given an indicative estimate of the number of ‘troubled families’ in their area.
Success Measures – Based on the PM’s policy objectives of getting parents into work, children attending school, reducing crime and ASB and cutting costs for the State, a simple and workable framework of success measures is being developed.
Troubled Family Coordinators – Each area allocated an amount of money depending on the number of troubled families in their area) to fund this role.

14. Troubled Families Programme What Does This Mean for Lancashire?
2nd largest LA
3 co-ordinators & 3 clusters
2,630 families
876 in year 1 (730 paid)
c £8,768,000 available – upfront attachment fee and results-based payment.
Lancaster = 162
Wyre = 109
Fylde = 57
Cluster A = 328 over 3 years
Preston = 294
West Lancs = 189
Chorley = 162
South Ribble = 109
Cluster B = 754 over 3 years
Burnley = 425
Pendle = 373
Rossendale = 294
Hyndburn = 399
Ribble Valley = 57
Cluster C = 1548 over 3 years

15. Troubled Families Programme Family Identification
1. Crime/ASB
1 or more under 18 with proven offence &/or ASBO, ASB, ASBI etc. in last 12 months.
2. Education
Permanent exclusion, 3 or more fixed school exclusions across 3 consecutive terms.
Or in a PRU or not on a school role.
&/or 15% unauthorised absences across 3 consecutive terms.
3. Work
Adult on DWP out of work benefits.
4. Local Discretion

16. Troubled Families Programme Payment by Results Framework
Attachment fee
Results payment
Total
They achieve all 3 of the education and crime/ASB measures set out below where relevant:
Each child in the family has had fewer than 3 fixed exclusions and less than 15% of unauthorised absences in the last 3 school terms; and
A 60% reduction in anti‐social behaviour across the family in the last 6 months; and
Offending rate by all minors in the family reduced by at least a 33% in the last 6 months.
£3,200 per family
£700 per family
£4,000 per family
If they do not enter work, but achieve the ‘progress to work’ (one adult in the family has either volunteered for the Work Programme or attached to the ESF provision in the last 6 months).
£100 per family OR
At least one adult in the family has moved off out‐of‐work benefits into continuous employment in the last 6 months (and is not on the ESF Provision or Work Programme to avoid double‐payment).
£800 per family

17. Troubled Families Programme Wider Lancashire Context
Governance Board
Implementation SPOCS
Programme Manager
LSCB
Quality control
MASH
MAESH
WTWF
CAF/ CON
Workforce Development
Communication
Programme checkpoint with project leads
CYTB
Commissioning
Information Management

18. Questions and Which Direction?