Families in Focus, Early Help & Public Health Chris Wilford & Dr Mark Pietroni South Gloucestershire Children, Adults & Health Department
Families in Focus Delivering the Troubled Families Initiative in South Gloucestershire Worklessness & Early Help Chris Wilford
Understanding TFI • Data: Using data to target households with issues of crime, ASB, poor educational outcomes & worklessness • Delivery: Develop Family Intervention Services that take whole family approaches to tackling multiple high cost issues within families, • Transformation: Strategically change the culture of service delivery to embed multi-agency Family Intervention with cross agency buy in & finance
What’s ‘driven’ Troubled Families • Reaction to the 2010 riots? • Policy that carries on from ‘Think Family’? • Reduce re-active spend @9 billon through more effective delivery of services.
Families in Focus in South Gloucestershire Demographics: Central Government Target 295
Demographics • Over representation of Traveller families & families with a Dual Heritage background php. • A Fi. F is x 2 more likely to be in PN. • However 70% of our families don’t live in PN. • 3 wards with greatest concentration are Yate Central, Frenchay/Stoke Park & Patchway • 60% of our families live in social housing, 19% private rented, 17% owner occupier.
Focusing on employment § 210 of our 296 families meet the worklessness criteria § A total of 123 adults out of work § 79 young people being support by YISS who are NEET or at risk of NEET
Employment as the key to long term change? § Culture change; a DCLG & DWP drive to increase collaboration & data share between JCP & LA’s § Strong local JCP Support § Seconded JCP advisor in FISS § Benefits advice & the right advice, why it matters 2 early examples.
But….
Troubled Families: Early Intervention?
Conclusions & challenges • TFI ‘a strategy to join up services & reduce missed opportunities’ is it a long term solution? • Longer term solution for these families doesn’t stand on its own, but requires a collaboration of agencies efforts & resources & a re-think. • 2015 -2020 Phase 2 of TFI, Early Intervention & the input of Public Health
But • Is the TFI intervention too late?
We know early intervention works • Length of breastfeeding protects against type 1 developing diabetes • Mental Health
It pays too. . .
Family Nurse Partnership • First time mums under 18 years • Programme stops when child reaches 2 years • Structured home visits by a nurse
Proven benefits • • improvements in antenatal health reductions in children’s injuries, neglect and abuse improved parenting practices and behaviour fewer subsequent pregnancies and greater intervals between births • improved early language development, school readiness and academic achievement • increased maternal employment and reduced welfare use • increases in fathers’ involvement
So. . .
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