This report will give an overview of the work carried out by the Supporting Families Partnership over the last twelve months to identify and support families to ‘turn around’ As a brief reminder the ‘Troubled Families’ programme is a government programme run through the Department for Communities and local Government (DCLG) but with cross departmental support. The aim of the programme as announced by David Cameron and Eric Pickles in December 2011 is to identify and ‘turn around’ the lives of 120,000 families who are a high cost to the public purse because of the amount of time and resource they require from a range of agencies. There are three central government set criteria and one locally set criteria. To qualify for the programme families must meet three out of the four criteria. Northumberland Supporting Families Partnership Eligibility Criteria The programme has had a three year span starting from April 2012; we are entering the last year of the programme although I will talk later about the future of the programme and moving into Phase Two. Each local authority had to agree with the DCLG how many families they would ‘turn around’. For Northumberland this figure is 650. To support us in the work we have been able to claim an amount of money per family up front-an attachment fee-and an amount once we can demonstrate that we have turned a family round-the payment by results element. There has been a tapered approach to this: Year 1 80% attachment fee per family 20% payment by results Year 2 60% attachment fee per family 40% payment by results Year 3 40% attachment fee per family 60% payment by results The success criteria are: Criteria which qualified them for the scheme Result to make a claim Youth Offending Offending rate by all minors in the family reduced by at least 33% in the last 6 months Anti-Social Behaviour A 60% reduction in anti-social behaviour across the family in the last 6 months Exclusions Each child in the family has had fewer than 3 fixed term exclusions Unauthorised Absences Each child has less than 15% of
09:30 – 16:30 West Hartford Fire Station 17th June 2013 Supporting Families Strategic Overview – Patrick Boyle Supporting Families Way of Working – Lynne Maughan Parenting Approaches – Helen Cain Family Recovery Programme Office 18th June 2013 Working with the Impact of Early Adversity West Hartford First Station 19th June 2013 Domestic Violence & Parental Mental Health Anne Lambert & Becky Wilson Personality Disorder - Peter Payne Family Recovery Programme Office 20th June 2013 Multi Agency Working - Networking Day 30 minutes slot each Health Visitor – Pam Middleditch School Nurse – Alison Payne EWO – Angela Cunningham Teenage Pregnancy – Karen Rowell YOS – Maureen Taylor CAB - Housing – Nicola Vallance ASB Housing Stuart Sexton Children’s Centre – Jan Casson or Jackie McCormick
Anne Lambert, Pauline Lazenby & Maureen Taylor Family Recovery Programme Office Team Building Day West Hartford Fire Station Date to be confirmed 10 & 24 Sept 2013 09:30 – 16:30 Observing Parent & Infant Interactions Wansbeck House, Hepscott Park, Stannington 11 September 2013 09:30 – 16:30 Neglect West Hartford Fire Station, Cramlington 13 September 2013 10:00 – 12:00 Signs of Safety Briefing Wansbeck House, Hepscott Park, Stannington 19 September 2013 09:30 – 16:30 Emotional Abuse Tynedale Function Suite, Hexham Mart, Hexham 9 October 2013 9:30 – 16:30 Impact of Parental Mental Health on Parenting West Hartford Fire Station, Cramlington 22&23 October 2013 09:30 – 16:30 (Day 1) 09:30 – 12:30 (Day 2) Domestic Abuse and Safeguarding Children West Hartford Fire Station, Cramlington 25 October 2013 09:30 – 16:30 Working with Hostile and Unco-operative Parents West Hartford Fire Station, Cramlington