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Joining up Think Family, Troubled Families and the Families Programme

Drawing on the Blackburn with Darwen experience from a voluntary sector perspectiveSlide2

From the voluntary sector perspective of Bootstrap Enterprises

Elizabeth Taylor CEO of Bootstrap

25 years delivery in Blackburn with Darwen

Working across Pennine Lancashire

Delivering:

Work Programme for Ingeus and A4E

5,188

on Bootstrap's W.P. provision,

1,998

in Blackburn with Darwen

Families Programme for Reed in Partnership to all Family Programme Members (across Pennine Lancashire)

Work Choice for the Shaw Trust in BwD and Hyndburn

Supported Employment

Business start up and Social Enterprise Support, and more…Slide3

Blackburn with Darwen: Exceptional challenges….

Housing

: 61% in Council Tax Band A (the lowest) with 17% of housing stock below Decent Homes Standard

Education

: 40% of adults with no educational qualifications. Amongst lowest % of NVQ Level 4 attainment in country

Health: 36th worst in the NW (out of 42) with high consumption of alcohol & smoking rates key factorsIncome: Average earnings 22% lower than national average 12% below Lancashire averageWorklessness: 28% of the Borough ‘economically inactive’. 1 in 4 children living in a workless household. Figure static in spite of New Deal and strong performance in economic development / job creation

Deprivation

: 58% of population live in 25% most deprived Lower Super Output Areas in the country (60% of Children under 16). IMD ranking getting worse! Slide4

Social Justice

This Government’s strategy for Social Justice is about giving individuals and families facing multiple disadvantages the support and tools they need to turn their lives around.

The strategy sets out Government’s strong commitment to this agenda. It focuses on exploring how we can tackle the root causes of problems to promote real and sustained changes in peoples’ lives.

DWP Website

http://www.dwp.gov.uk/policy/social-justice/Slide5

Social Justice

Supporting families

Keeping young people on track

The importance of work

Supporting the most disadvantaged adults

Delivering Social Justice

RELATED STRATEGIES:Those first set out in the Child Poverty StrategyThis Government’s Social mobility strategyThe principle of better partnership to tackle multiple disadvantage e.g. Healthy Lives, Healthy PeopleSlide6

What is happening inBlackburn with Darwen

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Think Family

The Families Programme

The Troubled Families ProgrammeSlide7
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THINK FAMILYWe started our approach to Think Family long before the Coalition Government was even dreamt of

Worklessness, particularly inter-generational worklessness is one of the biggest issues we face as a borough (latest figures are 59.7% of working age people in employment, lowest for at least 10 years, and the gap between BwD and the North West and UK has widened significantly, meaning that the recession has hit harder in BwD than it has in the North West and UK as a whole)

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Blackburn with Darwen “Think Family”

Approach commenced January 2010

Pilot with 30 families - 3 very different areas

Potential savings between £2million & £7million

Aim for roll-out and whole system changeSlide10

BLACKBURN WITH DARWEN – THINK FAMILY

Our Think Family approach was developed to respond to local need and local issues, and at every step of the timeline we have worked with Government to influence their thinking and understand their agenda,

But we have continued (and will continue) to ensure our local programme meets our needs – our approach is designed to get “up-stream” of the key problems, e.g. we need to try and work with families before they start to cause ASB problems; come to the attention of police or have their children excluded from school

Therefore – it has been about prevention.Slide11

The BwD Think Family Offer

A whole service approach to families:

Identify families at risk to provide support at the earliest opportunity

Meet the full range of needs of each family being support

Develop services that can respond effectively to the most complex families

Strengthen the ability of family members to provide care and support to each otherFundamentally change the way we, as a partnership, support our vulnerable familiesEncourage families to become active participants in their service design; delivery and commissioningAvoid costly duplications and attempt to manage increasing demand on social careSecure better outcomes for families and boroughSlide12

Think Family

‘Collaborative working between service providers and local communities in building the resilience and resourcefulness of families in Blackburn with

Darwen

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Neighbourhoods Engagement Model:

Capacity Building Facilitation LIS principles

Community Budgets: Reconfiguring the finance governance model

Review of LSP commissioning arrangements

Whitehall to local negotiation/devolution

Excellence in partnership working:

‘Shared’ outcomes & Joint Delivery Planning

Transformation e.g. LPSB and CT+

Resilience mapping/ planning

Co-production:

Participatory finance / local co-commissioning

Residents and the VCS

e.g. Shadsworth ward BIG LOCAL delivery

Integrated Service Provision:

Use of Shared N’hood Teams/Area Agency P’ships/Joint Delivery e.g. Health & VCS in Children’s Centres

Personalisation

Strategic remodelling

Bringing it all together –

Bottom-up remodelling

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THINK FAMILY

Getting people into work is one of the aims of the Think Family, but

BwD

recognise that there are many factors that need to be addressed for our families,

before

they will be ready to reach that stage

The Think Family model is focused on building emotional capacity, to encourage the family recognise the key issues that are impacting them and take steps, that they identify, to address those issuesSlide14

The change in emphasis to Troubled Families

Community Budgets for Families with Complex Needs has now been overtaken by Troubled Families agenda, as Government felt the community budget pilots were not moving quick enough

The Troubled Families initiative, is aimed at accelerating the delivery of outcomes.

There is some conflict between Think Family and the Troubled Families key focus – Troubled Families is not aimed at prevention, it’s aimed at dealing with the problem)Slide15

The Troubled Families Programme

Troubled families are households who

Are involved in crime and anti social behaviour

Have children not in school

Have an adult on out of work benefits

Cause high costs to the public purse

The majority will be families who have been on different services’ radars The programme provides a new approach to these families Slide16

Identifying families locally

Crime and anti social behaviour

Education

(households affected by truancy or exclusion from school)

Work

, once 1 and 2 are identified, households which also have an adult on out of work benefits

Local discretion filter, families who meet any 2 of the 3 above who are of concernSlide17

Troubled Families funding

The funding provided under the Troubled Families payment by results arrangements will be available for five out of six troubled families in each upper-tier local authority.

This is to avoid paying twice for the same outcomes. Government funding has already been provided to support these remaining families. For example, the Department for Work and Pension's £200 million+ European Social Fund provision, the Work ProgrammeSlide18

Troubled Families funding

The payment by results criteria are:

more than 85 per cent attendance in schools and fewer than three exclusions from school

a 60 per cent reduction in anti-social behaviour across the whole family

and a 33 per cent reduction in youth offending

= £3,900

Plus progress towards work such as enrolment in the Work Programme or the European Social Fund provision for troubled families= £100Or One adult in the family moving off benefits and into work=£4,000 Local authorities are expected to make up the remaining 60 per cent of the average £10,000 cost of a successful family intervention.Slide19
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DELIVERING THE FAMILIES PROGRAMME

Families Programme indicative profiles for

Blackburn with Darwen :

Attachments 1,123

Progress measures 2,877

Sustained jobs 247Slide21

THE FAMILIES PROGRAMME DELIVERY

SUPPORTING WORKLESS FAMILIES : The families Programme is designed to support

workless

families. It will run alongside local authority support, the Work Programme and other provision to overcome barriers to work.

Participants expected to complete at least 3 Progress measures to overcome barriers to workSlide22

THE FAMILIES PROGRAMME DELIVERY

To be eligible participants must:

Volunteer for the programme

Have at least one family member who is claiming a DWP out of work benefit

Be over 16 years of age

Have a family history of intergenerational worklessness and/or have no one currently working in their familySlide23

THE FAMILIES PROGRAMME DELIVERY

PROGRESS MEASURES, in 5 clusters:

Your Path to Work

Gaining work experience

Achieving qualifications and skills

Improving literacy and numeracy

Exploring self employment Gaining part time or temporary work Supporting carers into work Staying in post 16 education and trainingYour Family Building on family relationships Developing parenting styles Addressing household tension Arranging childcare support Strengthening family and school relations Supporting carers into work Slide24

THE FAMILIES PROGRAMME DELIVERY

Your Mindset

Increasing motivation

Planning for a positive future

Developing ambition

 Your Health and Home Managing finances Improving mental well being Improving physical well being Increasing housing stability Managing and overcoming addiction Your Local community Engaging in community activities Increasing social development Handling social pressures Identifying travel solutions Slide25

THE CHALLENGESOUR FOCUS ON THE JOURNEY TO PAID SUSTAINABLE WORK

THE SHARED PARTICIPANTS

PAYMENT BY RESULTSSlide26

PROGRESSION

Into WorkSlide27

Elizabeth Taylor

Bootstrap Enterprises

www.bootstrap.org.uk