Joining up Think Family, Troubled Families and the Families

Programme

Drawing on the Blackburn with Darwen experience from a voluntary

sector perspective

From the voluntary sector perspective of Bootstrap Enterprises

Elizabeth Taylor CEO of Bootstrap25 years delivery in Blackburn with DarwenWorking 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…

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 factors

• Income: Average earnings 22% lower than national average 12% below Lancashire average

• Worklessness: 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!

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/

Social Justice

1. Supporting families2. Keeping young people on track3. The importance of work4. Supporting the most disadvantaged adults5. Delivering Social JusticeRELATED 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 People

What is happening inBlackburn with Darwen:

• Think Family

• The Families Programme

• The Troubled Families Programme

THINK FAMILYCOMMUNITY

BUDGET PILOT

TROUBLED FAMILIES

PROGRAMMEDCLG

Payment by results

FAMILIES PROGRAMME

DWP ESFPayment by results

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 change

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.

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 other• Fundamentally change the way we, as a partnership, support our

vulnerable families• Encourage families to become active participants in their service

design; delivery and commissioning• Avoid costly duplications and attempt to manage increasing demand

on social care• Secure better outcomes for families and borough

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

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 remodellingBringing it all together –

Bottom-up remodelling (Local Integrated Services)

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 issues

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)

The Troubled Families Programme

Troubled families are households whoo Are involved in crime and anti social behaviouro Have children not in schoolo Have an adult on out of work benefitso Cause high costs to the public purseThe majority will be families who have been on

different services’ radars The programme provides a new approach to these

families

Identifying families locally

1. Crime and anti social behaviour2. Education (households affected by truancy or

exclusion from school)3. Work, once 1 and 2 are identified,

households which also have an adult on out of work benefits

4. Local discretion filter, families who meet any 2 of the 3 above who are of concern

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 Programme

Troubled Families fundingThe 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= £100

Or • 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.

THINK FAMILY

TROUBLED FAMILIES

PROGRAMME

FAMILIES PROGRAMME

DELIVERING THE FAMILIES PROGRAMME

Families Programme indicative profiles for Blackburn with Darwen :

Attachments 1,123Progress measures 2,877Sustained jobs 247

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 work

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 family

THE FAMILIES PROGRAMME DELIVERY

PROGRESS MEASURES, in 5 clusters:Your Path to Work Gaining work experience

Achieving qualifications and skillsImproving literacy and numeracyExploring self employmentGaining part time or temporary workSupporting carers into workStaying in post 16 education and training

Your Family Building on family relationships

Developing parenting stylesAddressing household tensionArranging childcare support

Strengthening family and school relationsSupporting carers into work

THE FAMILIES PROGRAMME DELIVERY

Your Mindset Increasing motivationPlanning for a positive futureDeveloping ambition

Your Health and Home Managing financesImproving mental well beingImproving physical well beingIncreasing housing stabilityManaging and overcoming addiction

Your Local community Engaging in community activitiesIncreasing social developmentHandling social pressuresIdentifying travel solutions

THE CHALLENGES

• OUR FOCUS ON THE JOURNEY TO PAID SUSTAINABLE WORK

• THE SHARED PARTICIPANTS

• PAYMENT BY RESULTS

Families Programme

The Troubled Families

ProgrammeThink Family

PROGRESSION

Into Work

Elizabeth Taylor

Bootstrap Enterprises

www.bootstrap.org.uk