Appendix 1 – Action Plan What are trying to achieve Why we are doing this? Actions How will we measure progress? Lead Timescale Review We will take a multi agency approach to planning and delivering parenting support at all levels Whilst planning and delivery of family and parenting support has been coordinated and well managed in the past, there is currently a lack of clarity and direction Resources and funding are extremely limited and diminishing. It is vital we increase coordination and integrated planning to ensure we can continue to deliver efficient and effective services All services responsible for providing family and parenting support will ensure that they are represented at the F+PS Group Providers of parenting support will meet at twice a year on a locality basis to plan parenting support out multi - agency skills audit across services and carry out training needs analysis Strategy is successfully implemented. Each agency has identified a parenting champion. Each locality has multi-agency six month parenting support plan in place Learning from Family Service model rolled out across services Practitioners are supported in developing the core competencies in Appendix 5 F+PS Group November 1st 2015 November 27th 2015 We will influence commissioners to commission evidence based parenting support We will work with commissioners to develop a clear , integrated commissioning process for family The evidence used to inform commissioning is currently inconsistent, and rigour An understanding of the importance of international academic evidence for support options exists. However little emphasis is currently given to local data collection to provide evidence of the impact of Develop a common understanding of the use of good evidence through KTP and communicate with partners, commissioners and practitioners We will ensure that commissioners get regular data and feedback to inform commissioning We will identify where commissioning of parenting support will sit within the existing governance structures The F+PS Group will collect and distribute data and info around effective parenting support Actions from plan to be reviewed by F+PS every quarter Six monthly review – informed by partner involvement There will be a full menu of family and parenting support available Rachel Clark and KTP September 2015 - July 2016 At each strategy meeting co-
and parenting support support offered in Nottinghamshire which meets the needs of families from Levels One to Four on the Pathway to Provision Families should be involved in planning, design and delivery and evaluation of support Families are frequently involved in consultation about services and programmes once they have been delivered It is significantly less common that families are involved in the planning of support and often findings from consultations are not given sufficient weighting in subsequent decision making F+PS Group will champion the need for participation with an additional link to participation group F+PS Group is involved in design and delivery of workshops around participation F+PS Group to highlight good practice and share learning with others We will work with agencies to develop volunteering opportunities for parents to deliver parenting programmes We will work with parents and carers to evaluate the strategy We will deliver workshops and evaluate their impact We will work with the Participation group to evaluate participation and to identify areas for improvement We will have an identified cohort of parents who have been trained as group work facilitators Consider using Mystery Shopper approach to measure effectiveness F+PS April 29th 2016 May 27th 2016 We will improve and maintain data collection on family and parenting support Data collection on parenting programmes is currently inconsistent across the county and within different services Some data is collated or analysed centrally to evidence the impact of family and parenting support , but this is mostly related to Troubled Families Develop a parenting programme targeting tool to identify appropriate support for families Collect data on all parenting programmes run across the county Ensure all locally developed or adapted parenting programmes are validated Data from parenting programme evaluations, the targeting tool and the validation process will be collated and analysed centrally to Targeting tool will be implemented and data from tool collected. Use of the tool will be evaluated Data collection process to be reviewed and gaps identified and addressed We will audit programme delivery and validate all locally developed or adapted programmes Rachel Clark and KTP September 2015-June 2016 At each strategy meeting
measure impact of family and parenting support We will ensure that services are available for target vulnerable groups –i.e. fathers, those with learning disabilities, substance misuse, and domestic violence is a need for on-going analysis of family’s needs to ensure that support offered is fit for purpose. Data collected from the parenting programmes targeting tool will be used to identify gaps in current provisions We will work with partners to establish a baseline of the current levels of parenting support offered across the County Evidence on alternative programmes and forms of support will be routinely gathered to inform commissioning We will review current provision for vulnerable groups including parents with learning disabilities, teenage parents, parents with mental health issues and parents with substance misuse issues. We will collate and review baseline data to establish the level of need in different vulnerable groups. We will monitor the extent to current provisions meet the needs of vulnerable groups, and plan to commission services where gaps exist. F+PS 29th 2016 May 27th 2016 F+PS = Family and Parenting Strategy group KTP= Knowledge Transfer Partnership project between Nottinghamshire County Council and Nottingham Trent University