Troubled Families

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European Social Fund

Project Manager: Andrew Willetts

Troubled Families

Background• On 15th December 2011, the Prime Minister made a speech announcing need for a “social recovery

in Britain". This speech built on previous announcements following the civil disturbances of summer 2011. The Prime Minister set out that “a relatively small number of families are the source of a large proportion of the problems in society”. The Government announced that nationally an estimated £9 billion per annum is spent on 120,000 families equating to approximately £75,000 per family and identified within the overall national data that Medway has 560 troubled families.

• The Troubled Families programme is not about a centrally prescribed delivery strategy; it is about re-redesign of local services, it is about local partners working together to identify local solutions with and for local families. Sustainable success will require leadership and engagement at a senior level by all local partners across public and voluntary sectors.

• The national priorities of this programme are those households where there is offending and anti-social behaviour, lack of engagement in education and worklessness. There is then a wider local discretionary criteria. These are issues which are already of considerable focus here in Medway and thus the Troubled Families programme has strong fit with and cuts across many different current Medway strategies and action plans.

• The first three Troubled Families criteria means that a Medway programme will need to be fairly prescriptive. However the local discretion criteria provide positive scope for a Medway programme to unequivocally reflect local need. Further the Troubled Families programme creates genuine opportunity for systemic change in how the local authority and its partners work together with the families most costly to support and challenge. It will be imperative to explore new ways of working, moving beyond core service boundaries.

Incentive and success

The real incentive for all partners in Medway:

• Process improvement efficiencies.

• Future cashable savings as the needs of families are addressed and demands on the public purse decrease.

• The programme provides opportunity for agencies in Medway to ‘shrink together’ over the next three years; it provides opportunity to establish new investment and delivery models.

• Success will mean reducing the costs of dependency to the whole public sector, improving key public service outcomes, and supporting growth and productivity – through tackling worklessness and enhancing skills of troubled families.

• Government view that local services are too fragmented and that “closer working and co-design of service provision between local people, local authorities, Government departments and local delivery partners can be an important part of improving services and solving complex problems”.

• It is important to understand that Government funding will only apply to five out of every six families identified. Government is very clear that it wishes to avoid double funding for family work and notes that local areas have both European Social Fund financed programmes to tackle worklessness (Troubled Families criteria 3) and also funded Functional Therapy programmes. Therefore ensuring this programme is completely linked with the other

programmes is going to be critical.

Partners

• What do you think?

• Issues identified?

• How do we include the voluntary sector?

% of payment(£4000 for 5 out of 6

families).

Year Upfront fee PBR• 2012-13 80% 20%

£3200 £800• 2013-14 60% 40% £2400 £1600• 2014-15 40% 60% £1600 £2400

Medway Troubled Families

Programme 2012-2015 • Community Safety Plan • Social care plan (CIN/ CP/ LAC)• Domestic Abuse Strategy • Drugs & Alcohol Strategy • Council Plan • Children's Plan • Probation plan• Economic Development Strategy • YOT Plan• Health & Wellbeing Strategy • Housing Strategy • Local People Local Solutions (Luton & Wayfield) • Medway Place (1 and 2) • NEET/RPA Strategy • Policing Strategy • Skills Development strategy • Teenage pregnancy strategy

‘Troubled families’ are households who:

• Are involved in crime and anti-social behaviour

• Have children not in school

• Have an adult on out of work benefits

• Cause high costs to the public purse

Criteria

Criteria 1: Crime and anti-social behaviour

Households with one or more under 18 year old with a proven offence in the last twelve month

And/or

Households where one or more member has an anti-social behaviour order, anti-social behaviour injunction, anti social behaviour agreement, or where the family has been subject to a housing related anti-social behaviour intervention in the last 12 months (such as notice of seeking possession on anti-social behaviour grounds, a housing-related injunction, a demotion order, eviction from social housing on anti-social grounds)

Criteria 2: Education

Household where a child has been subject to permanent exclusion; three or more fixed school exclusions across the last three consecutive terms OR

Is in a Pupil Referral Unit or alternative provision because they have previously been excluded; OR is not on a school roll

And/or

A child has had 15% unauthorised absences or more from school across the last three consecutive terms

Criteria 3: Work

Households which meet criteria 1 and/or 2 and which also have an adult on DWP out of work benefits – Employment & Support Allowance (ESA), Incapacity Benefit, Carer’s Allowance, Income Support and/or Jobseekers Allowance (JSA), Severe Disablement Allowance)

There is then a fourth criterion titled: Local discretion.

• This filter can be used to add other families who meet any two of criteria 1, 2 and 3 and are a cause for concern. It is expected by the DCLG that criteria 1, 2 and 3 alone will not reach the confirmed number of families in a local authority.

• Suggested by the DCLG: • Families containing a child who is on a child protection plan or where the local authority is

considering accommodating them as a looked after child • Families subject to frequent Police call out or arrests or containing adults with proven offences in

last twelve months such as those who have been in prison, prolific and priority offenders (PPOs) or families involved in gang related crime

• Families with health problems such as • Emotional and mental health problems • Drug and alcohol misuse • Long term health conditions • Health problems created by domestic abuse • Under 18 conceptions

• Some other Medway possibilities: • Families where there is domestic abuse • Families living in Luton & Wayfield • Families with children not engaging in pre-school provision • Families with young people 16-18 NEET where there is no adult working either

Partners• What do you think?• Issues identified?

TF Numbers

Targets Contacts Upfront PBR TotalAugust 2012- March 2013 180 £480'000 £120'000 £600'000April 2013 - March 2014 257 £514'000 £342'666 £856'666April 2014 - March 2015 123 £164'000 £246'000 £410'000

Total 560 £1'162'667 £703'999 £1'866'666

European Social Fund

Background:

• The provision is designed to help towards employing people in families where there is a history of worklessness or multigenerational unemployment, combined with a range of wider family and individual problems that make working a difficult prospect for them.

• These families would also come within scope of the Government’s wider Troubled Families agenda.

• The Government is determined to turn around the lives of 120,000 of the most troubled families. Medway figure is 577.

• DWP is using around 200m of ESF funding to help further support these families

• The programme is aimed to tackle the challenge of troubled families to support them to:

• overcome multiple barriers

• and support members of the family to move into work

Criteria:

The Local Authority will have responsibility for identifying multi-generational families with multiple problems or a history of worklessness to join the provision.

- There must be at least one ‘Qualifying Person’ per family but they do not have to volunteer for the programme

- A Qualifying Person is a person on an eligible DWP working age (16+) benefit:

• Jobseeker's Allowance• Employment and Support Allowance• Incapacity Benefit• Income Support• Carers Allowance• Severe Disablement Allowance

- Not on Troubled Family list of families to be worked with. - Not already on an ESF programme.

Phase of implementation

ESF

Single Point of entry

Phase 1

IPS

Phase 2

JCP

Phase 3

Social Care

Phase 4

IID

Phase

CSP

Screen against Troubled Families criteria:

1. Involved in crime and ASB

2. Have Children not in School

3. Have an adult on working benefits

4. High cost to the LA.

Troubled familyMeets all

criteriaOr

(2 areas plus criteria 4).

Meets criteria 3 and 4.

ProcessEach phase identifies their families

meeting criteria

Refer to ESF project manager:

andrew.willetts@medway.gov.uk.cjsm.net

Checks completed

Project manager refers to ESF

Family contacted in 3 days by skills training

Skills training meet with family in 5 days

Family start the programme

April 2012 - Sept 2012 100

Oct 2012 - March 2013 150

Total 2012/13 250

April 2013 - Sept 2013 180

Oct 2013 - March 2014 147

Total 2013/14 327

Total Families for ESF 577

ESF Numbers

TF NumbersHow do we make this work?

Targets Contacts Upfront PBR TotalAugust 2012- March 2013 180 £480'000 £120'000 £600'000April 2013 - March 2014 257 £514'000 £342'666 £856'666April 2014 - March 2015 123 £164'000 £246'000 £410'000

Total 560 £1'162'667 £703'999 £1'866'666

Results for Troubled Families

Troubled FamiliesWill this work….?

Integrated Prevention Service

ESF programme

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Keyworkers

X 10

SW Students

Troubled Families

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CSP

JCP

School/ Academies

Housing

Police

Probation

YOT

Health

Parenting

Social care

Inclusion

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Keyworkers

NFA Standard Enhanced Intensive FFT

Assessment in place (CAF/ CIN/ CP)

Panel/ focus group

Review (6 weeks, 12 week,

18 weeks, and 24 weeks).

Close Payment by result

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Single Point of entry

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Criteria and data matching

Family evaluation

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Delivery and action plan. (Includes focus on criteria)

Governance

Children's Trust

Troubled Families steering group:

1. Medway Youth Diversion Scheme (MYDS)

2. Family Functional Therapy (FFT)

3. European Social Fund (ESF)

4. Targeted Youth Support panel (TYSP)

5. Troubled Families

YOT

Management

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Health and

Well-being

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Community

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PartnershipTroubled Families

Parenting and Families support

partnership

CADMT

Strands of the Troubled Families agenda

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Vision for the future

Troubled Families- 2015

European Social Fund- 2014

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•Are involved in crime and anti-social behaviour

•Have children not in school

•Have an adult on out of work benefits

•Cause high costs to the public purse

Mentoring Previous TF

What next

• Identify Medway ‘troubled families’ through data set then set criteria for first cohort to be worked with.

• Meet with Assistant Directors and Service Managers• Meet with TF coordinator’s (national) and work with

TF unit to identify good practice and areas of success and lessons learnt.

• Service/ action/ delivery plan• Follow Information Sharing protocol• Costing tool• Terms of reference• Set and develop steering group- who should attend?• Look at evaluation tool- Vanilla/ Hidden patterns• Stakeholder event

Questions