1. Children and Young People’s Trust Partnership
30 January 2012

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

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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

7. Working Together With Families - activity
County-wide Governance Group & Delivery Group
Strategic leads with local management groups in each of the 4 districts
Narrative
Outcomes framework
Minimum of 5 families in each district, with 3 control families: partnership nomination criteria
‘Route map’ for working with families – CAF, TAF, self-assessment, family cost calculator tool, etc

8. 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?

9. Working Together With Families - timetable
Jan – March 2012:
Delivery
Review and evaluation
What works and what doesn’t
April – August 2012:
Planning for rollout
Resourcing
Fine tuning the tools
September 2012:
District rollout?
} Communication

10. Working Together With Families - activity
Challenges
Money – blessing or curse?
Making that culture shift
Managing expectations
Marrying up with existing activity
Remembering who we are doing this with

11. The strategic context – how does it all fit in?
Children and Young People’s Trust Board Safer Lancashire Board
Children and Young Persons Trust Board Safer Lancashire Board Local Criminal Justice Board
Leadership and Governance
Health and Wellbeing Board
Police Crime Commissioner
Early Support
Transforming Service Delivery
Integrated Offender Management
etc
Munro review
Transforming Care Services
Troubled Families Unit
etc
Strategy & Policy
Review of Common Assessment Framework (CAF)
Review of Continuum of Need,
Service mapping
European Social Fund (ESF) Families & ESF NEET Programme
etc
Vulnerable Adolescents Review of CAPSS and Children’s Centres
Best Start
Multi-Agency Safeguarding Hubs (MASH)
etc
Operational
Working Together - Differently - With Families

12. Working Together With Families – working with district CYP Trusts
Opportunity to build on existing activities – but with the caveat that this is not another initiative – what works well in your area?
Need to be clear about the ‘what’ and ‘how’ – consistency of approach is fundamental – what will be the key challenges in your area?
Planning for rollout – requirements, timescales, implementation – what support will you need in your area?