Transcript `Think Family` teams - Hertfordshire County Council

‘Think Family’
The Hertfordshire Context
Review of Integrated Practice - 2 years on
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Reducing unnecessary escalation
Improving use of CAF process
Revised thresholds for accessing services
Multi-Agency Targeted Advice Service (interim)
Strengthening Early Intervention & Prevention
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Moving from virtual to actual Teams Around the child
Maximising capacity to intervene
Locally based multi-agency teams
Based on the Think Families Approach
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Post-ECM Framework of Children’s Services?
Joined up community
health services for
children under 3 Jointly
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commission with PCT and
GPs
Schools to promote standards,
Children’s Centres a
well-being and resilience? School
‘universal offer’ of early
clusters to work in partnership
Integrated,
personalised
continuum
of support
years development
and
with commissioning budget for
wider services for
prevention and early intervention?
families
Local council services
Maternity &
Primary Health
82 Children’s
Centres
38 Extended
School Consortia
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‘Youth Offer’
and scope for
other
specialist
services?
Integrated
Youth Support
Specialist
Lead
Professionals
Third Sector
‘Think Family’ focus on
families with challenges.
Strong links to adult
services, health, housing
and others.
38 Multi-agency
locality teams
Specialist Services
Social Care
Disability
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Improved joint commissioning with
Health, and better coordination of
transition with ACS
Actual multi-agency teams
Link the teams to school
clusters?
Budget holding LPs?
•Better screening and
clearer thresholds reduce
referrals.
•High impact early
intervention and family
support reduce CP/CLA
•Less demand gives
scope for higher quality
Parents
Systematic arrangements
for early intervention –
review ‘what works’ – put
in place joint financial
strategy across
Children’s Trust
CAF
ContactPoint
Targeted
Service
A Spine of Service Delivery for Children and
Families
UNIVERSAL
 Joined up community health services for children under 3
 Children’s Centres – a universal offer of early years development and
wider services for families
 Schools working in clusters to promote standards, well-being and
resilience
TARGETED
 Actual multi-agency teams developed around extended schools
 Think Family focus on families with challenges
SPECIALIST
• Support for children in care, children with CP Plans, offenders,
children with mental health issues
Hertfordshire – the work so far
 Hertfordshire’s 1st ‘Think Family’ Conference – March 2009
 Hertfordshire Think Family Practitioners
 Family Intervention Programme (South Oxhey)
 Development of local ‘Think Family’ teams (2010/12)
 Housing Challenge Projects (2010/11)
 Learning from existing projects (e.g. C2 projects,
Drug Intervention Programme)
Hertfordshire – the way forward
A spine of services that secure better outcomes for children,
young people and families through a holistic approach to
identification, assessment and intervention
By co-ordinating effectively the support provided from children’s
services, adult services, health services, the police, VCS and
others
The Think Family approach………………………….