1. Locality Early Intervention The Halton Context Veronica Wright Divisional Manager Team Around the Family Halton Borough Council

2. All our work in Halton with children, young people and families is set against the Halton Levels of Need Framework

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Our Shared Vision
That all children and families in Halton thrive and achieve, and are kept safe
That those children and families who need extra help and support to thrive and achieve well are able to get that help quickly and easily
That all of us working with children and families work well together to support families who need extra help

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Shared Principles
Early identification of children and families who may need extra help and support
Robust, holistic, integrated multi-agency assessment of both individual children’s and whole family needs and aspirations
Co-ordinated, evidence based interventions leading to good outcomes for children and families
Children and families are supported at the lowest, safe level of needs, and supported to build resilience and make full use of universal services

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Early Help and Support established in Halton in April 2010.
Key priority of both Halton Children’s Trust and Halton Safeguarding Children Board.
Staged multi-agency approach to development – Family Support teams, Integrated Working Support Teams, Intensive Family Support teams, Troubled Families work, Contact And Referral Team (CART), Working Together meetings, “Think Family” Team Around the Family approach.
Current phase - Locality early intervention teams established September 2014, Troubled Families work mainstreamed into locality teams, early intervention workers in CART, one front door to services.

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Early Help – universal, population level support and services to help narrow the gap.
Early Intervention – targeted support to identified children and/or families to meet assessed needs

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Think Family approach:
Assess the needs of all family members
Understanding that parent’s needs impact on children
Contribution of all partner services is crucial
Team Around the Family
Coordination of support through CAF

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Now on our next steps of journey to fully integrated, multi agency teams and services
Building on the robust partnerships and good multi-agency work already established, and endorsed in the recent Ofsted inspection
As part of the current phase, reporting has moved to the Health and Wellbeing Board, emphasising our Think Family approach

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Good Practice already embedded:
Levels of need well understood and used appropriately
QA of CAF systems
Working Together meetings
Weekly referral meetings – discussion and review of decisions from CART to CSC and Early Intervention

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3 Locality based early intervention teams
Widnes team – Based in Kingsway Children’s Centre
– Principal Manager Janice Maddison
Runcorn East Team - Halton Castle, Norton North, Norton south, Windmill Hill, Beechwood and Daresbury – Based in Glendale
- Principal Manager Alison Upham
Runcorn West - Grange, Halton Brook, Heath, Mersey and Halton Lea - Based in Grangeway Community Centre
- Principal Manager Nicola Scott

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Additional Responsibilities remaining within the remit of Early Intervention:
Disability Short Breaks service
Young Carers
Parenting support programmes
CAF coordination, training and support, monitoring and quality assurance

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Opportunities for Transformation -
Pan Cheshire Transformation Challenge Award
Establishing a multi-agency approach to tackling complex dependencies across families and individuals in Cheshire and Warrington
To improve outcomes for children, families and citizens and reduce costs
Implementation approach is already agreed by all partners to maximise buy-in and commitment to transformation around the needs of the customer

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Opportunities for Transformation
Pan Cheshire Transformation Challenge Award
Adults and children involved in crime or anti-social behaviour
Children who have problems at school (e.g. regular absence, permanent exclusion)
Children who need help (i.e. Child In Need cases, level 3 or above)
Adults out of work or at risk of financial exclusion (including homelessness) and young people at risk of worklessness
Individuals and Families affected by domestic violence and abuse
Individuals with a range of (non-age related) health problems (universal health services)
Young people affected by homelessness/rough sleeping

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Opportunities for Transformation
Pan Cheshire Transformation Challenge Award
£5m over 3 years to transform services and processes including £1.6m to transform IT infrastructure
Project underway now with the establishment of a regional project team to drive the transformation across the 4 Boroughs

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How locality early intervention works for families: 2 case studies presented by early intervention workers