Transcript Coventry LA Women’s Family Intervention Project

Coventry LA Women’s Family
Intervention Project
Louison Ricketts
Lead Senior Manager for FIP
November 2011
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Why Women’s FIP?
• Corston Report
• NOMS National Service Framework
• Needs and characteristics of women offenders
differ from men
• Coventry LA commitment to ensure the right
interventions, services and support are provided
for families with multiple needs
• “Think Family” Funded Project
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What is the Women’s FIP model?
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Whole family approach
Gripping the family
Intensity of intervention
Persistence
Assessment
Contracts
Reviews
Exit strategy.
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Criteria
Three or more of the following has to be met
• Been involved in acquisitive crime
• Experienced, or is experiencing domestic abuse,
mental health problems, poor health, low selfesteem and lack of confidence
• Children who are in need of family support,
education, emotional and behavioural support
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Assessment – Levels of Need
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Referral Process
• Two routes to accessing the Women’s FIP
• Statutory women offenders – direct referrals
from Probation Offender Managers
• Non statutory women – referrals from the Police
Offender Managers via the IDOM Local Case
Management Forum (multi-agency meeting)
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Assessment Process
• Secure agreement from the service user and
commitment from agencies already involved to
work in the FIP way.
• Undertake comprehensive “whole family”
assessment
• Brokering and sequencing of interventions
• Contract issued to family – ownership
• Strong focus on working together with the
allocated Probation or Police Offender Manager
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Continued…
• Robust reviews (at least every 6 weeks)
• Appointments for women on statutory
supervision are enforceable
• “True” multi-agency problem solving
• “Total Place” approach
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Women’s FIP Agencies
CAB
PARENTING
JOB CENTRE PLUS
PCT: PMHT CAMHS MIND
REWIND (Hate Crime)
EDUCATION
POLICE
SYSTEMIC THERAPIST
COMPASS
FAMILY LINKS
CHILDREN'S CENTRES
STRENGTHENING FAMILIES
SWANSWELL
HOUSING
FAMILY GROUP CONFERENCING
SOCIAL CARE
PROBATION
Women’s FIP
Offenders
VIBES
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DEFUSE
RELATE
Substance Misuse Services
• Compass Young People’s Services
• Suitable for any young person under the
age of 18 years living within Coventry
• Key worker works with the young person
• Offers 1:1 advice and support (eg. harm
reduction)
• Provides specialist alcohol and drug services
• Provides a range of specialist targeted
interventions, such as substitute prescribing
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Cont:
 Offer support and advice to parents, carers, significant
others and families;
 Provide consultancy and support to professionals
and volunteers working with children and young people
 Assertive Outreach Model - Work alongside local
communities, neighbourhood forums and key partners to
respond to local hotspot issues as part of a co-ordinated
multidisciplinary approach.
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Addaction/Cranstoun (1)
• Addaction, in consortium with Cranstoun, will
provide drug and alcohol treatment services for
adults across Coventry and Warwickshire from 1
December 2011.
• Drug and alcohol treatment services were recommissioned for a number of reasons:
• to encourage a step-change towards a recoveryoriented treatment system, in line with the new
National Drug Strategy.
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Addaction/Cranstoun (2)
to extend treatment options for clients and
ensure services which were previously
under short term funding become part of
mainstream provision
• to ensure services provide value for
money by working in a multidisciplinary
approach.
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The 4 C’s of FIP Case Management
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Continuity – there needs to be a continuity of core treatment, but also a
reasonable degree of continuity of relationship running through the whole
length of the intervention.
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Consistency – the family needs to experience a consistency of message
and behaviour both by the same person over time and by different people
working with the same family at the same time. This is essential for delivery
of service – not constantly changing key worker.
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Commitment – the family need to experience the behaviour of staff working
with them as genuine not just going through the motions.
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Consolidation – gains will be short lived if new learning is not turned into
normal behaviour through a process which re-enforces and rewards it.
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Success Stories
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Statutory case: AB case referred to us through the Probation offender manager
Non-statutory case: MM referred to us through police case manager
Quotes from Police: ‘We’ve been waiting for a service like this, we have seen how
effective it is and that it really helps these women get a grip of their lives and prevents
them from re-offending’
Probation OMs: ‘Working with the Women’s FIP has been great, initially we were
unsure but now we have seen the value of this service, the support that they give the
women in real terms is amazing. They have reduced our workload by working so
intensively with these women, and they have also ensured that appts with us are kept
thereby reducing the number of potential breaches.’
Women Quotes: I didn’t know that this level of support was out there, I have
benefitted from help with debts, finance and training for employment, the children
have benefitted from the support they receive from FIP both in and out of school. My
mom has noticed the change in me and feels that she has also benefitted from this
service.
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The Future
• Securing funding – working in partnership with
the IDOM Development Team, Police HQ
• Development and expansion of Women’s FIP,
including engagement of TSAs
• Implementation of Activity Requirement
• Consideration of Conditional Cautioning
• Cascading learning and good practice to the
other LA areas within West Mids CJA.
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Any Questions?
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