The Troubled Families Programme A roaring success and a total failure The Programme Stage One 2012 DCLG 2012a E ligibility criteria M odel of intervention Payment by results PBR DCLG 2012b ID: 586444
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Success in Social Work Practice
The Troubled Families Programme. A roaring success and a total failureSlide2
The Programme
Stage One 2012 (DCLG 2012a)
E
ligibility criteria
M
odel of intervention
Payment by results (PBR) (DCLG 2012b)
Varied implementation modelsSlide3
Government Success Story
99% of families engaged with were ‘turned around’(Bate (House of Commons) 2016)
O
ntology and ‘being turned around’
R
hetorical epistemology
PBR returns as evidence of successSlide4
The Research Failure Story
Process, impact and economic evaluations
Impact study ‘unable to find…any significant impact’
(Day et al
2016: 38)
Quantifying outcomes
‘Gross’ and ‘net’ positive change
Empirical approaches to success in social workSlide5
But, Families’ Views
22 families, semi-structured interviews
improved coping skills and resilience;
widened access to entitlements and specialist support;
improved financial circumstances;
improved parenting confidence;
improved social confidence; and
crisis avoidance
(Blades et al 2016)Slide6
Service Users, Practitioners and Success
Smaller, local studies; semi-structured interviews of staff and families, ethnographic approaches
Stories of transformation, help and hindrance (Jones
et al
2015 in Davies 2015,
Thoburn
2013)Slide7
Towards a definition of success…
What is success in social work?
Who is in a position to identify success?
How do they evidence success?
Are success and effectiveness the same thing?
Open group discussion and commentSlide8
References
Bate, A.
(2016) House
of Commons Briefing Paper 07585
The Troubled Families Programme (England).
London. House of Commons Library.
http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-7585/CBP-7585.pdf
(3 3 17)Slide9
References
Blades, R., Day, L. and Erskine, C. (2016)
National Evaluation of the Troubled Families Programme: Families Experiences and Outcomes.
London. Department for Communities and Local Government. Slide10
References
Day, L., Bryson, C., White, C., Purdon, S.,
Bewley
, H., Kirchner Sala, L. and
Portes
, J. (2016)
National Evaluation of the Troubled Families Programme: Final Synthesis Report.
London. Department
for Communities and Local Government Slide11
References
Davies, K. (2015)
Social Work with Troubled Families: A Critical Introduction.
London. Jessica Kingsley.
Department of Communities and Local Government (2012a)
Working with Troubled Families: A guide to the evidence and good practice
. London. DCLG. Slide12
References
Department of Communities and Local Government (2012b)
The Troubled Families Programme: Financial Framework for the Troubled Families
p
rogramme’s
payment-by-results scheme for local authorities.
London. DCLG.Slide13
Thoburn
, J., Cooper, N., Brandon, M. and Connolly, S. (2013)
The place of “think family” approaches in child and family social work:
Messages
from a process evaluation of
an
English pathfinder service.
Child and Youth
Services Review
35 228-236