1. Children’s Services Update

2. Children’s Services
4 service areas; Early Help Family Support Services & YOS, Fieldwork Services, Quality Assurance and Placements and Resources
Delivers all statutory social work services and statutory youth offending services to Southend children
Delivers intensive family support services, linked to the Troubled Families programme, early help services, teenage pregnancy, young carers, young persons drug & alcohol, school attendance and prevention services to Southend children

3. Recent Developments Co-located front door for First Contact and EHFSS
Restructure of First Contact – 16th January 2017
Implementation of Edge of Care Team
Practice Lead
Changes to transition points for families
Changes in practice in First Contact Duty team
Training for a consistent approach
Recruiting to Family Group Conference facilitators

4. Impact Improved experience of children and their families
Increased responsiveness
Improved experience of partners
Children and families receive the service they need at the time they need from the most appropriate team or person
Reduced demand on statutory services

5. Current Developments
Restructure of Care Management Service in April 2017
Expanded Family Group Conferencing service in place June 2017
Review of child in need and integrated model of intervention to be completed by June 2017
Liquid Logic replacement for Care First (social work services) and Capita 1 (Early Help and Family Support Services)