Levels Needs Services that contribute to the outcome Level 3 - Additional Needs Outcome: Children and families are offered additional support that will help them make significant change and improvement in their lives, enabling them to move into universal services and meet all of their needs and achieve positive outcomes. Vulnerable children and their families with multiple additional needs or whose needs are more complex such as children and families who have a disability resulting in complex needs, where there is low parental capability/ capacity, poor engagement with key services such as school or health, challenging behaviour, mental health, substance misuse and domestic abuse This requires a more coordinated and complex response which brings agencies to support the child and family. Working together with Services above: Emotional and mental health support Family Support (Intensive and Think Family) Child Development Centres Tier 2 Mental Health Services (Children and Adult provision) Substance Misuse services (Children and Adult provision) Supported accommodation Targeted support for Disabled Young People i.e. Short break services Level 4 - Complex / significant needs Outcome: Children and families receive a range of specialist and/or statutory interventions/ support that keeps them safe and allows them to make significant change and improvement to their lives, enabling them to step-down into additional needs services. Children and young people who have suffered or are likely to suffer significant harm as a result of abuse or neglect. Families reach the highest levels of need due to significant mental or physical health needs or involvement in crime/substance misuse at a significant level. Children whose parents and wider family are unable to care for them. These needs may emerge after a series of, or despite, targeted interventions or be sudden and/or so serious as to require immediate request for specialist and statutory services. Working together with Services above: Children’s Social Care / Child Protection / Care Proceedings / Fostering and Adoption and Residential Care Laces In-patient and continuing health care / Health care for children with life limiting illness / Tier 3 & 4 CAMHS Youth Offending Service Probation Specialist support services for Disabled YP including Education, Health and Care Plans and Looked after YP MASH
up working (MCIB) An Early Help multi-agency workforce with appropriate knowledge, skills and awareness that builds capacity and confidence Tools – risk assessment and assessment tools designed agreed and implemented by all early help partners 2015/16 BSCB supported by BCC System and process for identification and referrals designed understood and embedded 2015/16 BCC Early help workforce training and awareness raising designed, delivered and impact assessed 2016/17 BSCB supported by BCC and all partners Communities and families have access to information and advice to build knowledge and capacity and are engaged to shape future support Develop excellent Early Help Information Advice and Guidance for Self Help online - MCIB 2014/15 – Plan 2015/16 - Develop BCC Design excellent Information, Advice and Guidance over the phone or face to face which provides additional guidance required 2015/16 – Plan 2016/17 - Develop BCC Focus on effective evidence based short interventions building long term solutions with the child and family which stops reputation and dependence 2015/16 BCC and commissioners/ partners Child and Family feedback is actively sought to understand accessibly of Information, Advice and Guidance and assessment of support, including how local needs are being addressed by local 2015/16 – Plan and engage 2016/17 – feedback fed BCC and commissioners/ partners
Gather data known at current point and run Baseline 2015/16 BCC Monitor and review at regular intervals – 6 months/annual? 2016/17 onwards BCC We have a multi-agency approach to early help with co-location at a local level to improve identification and targeting of resource Agreed citywide approach to Family support across multi-agency roles with strong performance management to show positive impact at universal plus and additional needs levels 2015/16 BCC This early help strategy assumes that early help will be delivered to children, young people and families with universal and universal plus level needs and that family support from the Hubs will offer support to families on the edge of care with additional or complex / specialist needs. Early Help ensures best use of targeted Early Years Services. Early Years Review completed which recommends a future model for Early Years – Full business case due March 2015 2014/2015 BCC Early Help aligns with the Think Family approach and supports the mainstreaming of the approach Priority families have effective early intervention through the ‘Think Families’ programme There is a clear, understood interface with other services Think Family approach to family support is adopted more widely across family support in