Themed Breakout: Intensive Family Support

Paul Carberry, Director of Service Development, Action for Children,

Mike Burns, Head of Social Work Services North West Glasgow and

Sheila Erskine, Children’s Services Manager, Action for Children

Intensive Family Support

• Welcome and Introductions

• What we know

• Work of the Family Support Sub Group to date

• Vision for the future of Family Support

• How Intensive Family Support links to the work of the Early Years Collaborative

Stretch Aim 1

To ensure that women experience positive pregnancies which result in the birth of more healthy babies as evidenced by a reduction of 15% in the rates of stillbirths (from 4.9 per 1,000 births in 2010 to 4.3 per 1,000 births in 2015) and infant mortality (from 3.7 per 1,000 live births in 2010 to 3.1 per 1,000 live births in 2015).

Stretch Aim 2

To ensure that 85% of all children within each Community Planning Partnership have reached all of the expected developmental milestones at the time of the child’s 27-30 month child health review, by end-2016.

Stretch Aim 3

To ensure that 90% of all children within each Community Planning Partnership have reached all of the expected developmental milestones at the time the child starts primary school, by end-2017.

What parents have said they want

– Trust and respect between parents and practitioners

– Better communication between parents and practitioners

– Practitioners who boost parental confidence by acknowledging the areas in a family’s life that are going well

– Practitioners acknowledging parents know their children best and therefore fully informing and involving them in any decisions made about their children

(taken from Bringing Up Children: Your Views, Sept 2012And available from www.scotland.gov.uk)

Multi-agency partnerships Whole family

approach Integrated

assessment

Understanding of impact of poverty

Resourceful relationships over time

Shared value base

Family centred but child focused

Delivered by resilient organisations

Key components of Intensive Family Support

Putting the strategic vision into practice

Aberdeen Families Service

A continuum of care and support A range of programmes Integrated and collaborative from referral to

closure

Supporting Moray Families

Targeted intervention Flexible resourcing Scientific success

Putting the strategic vision into practice

The voices that matter….

Progressive Universalism

Family Support Framework

Statutory Social Work

Recovery

Therapy

Virtuous Single System

Progressive UniversalismCoping

Family Support FrameworkJust Coping

Statutory Social WorkVulnerable Chaotic

Therapy resilience/ recovery

Single System

Integrated Support Team

Joint Support Team

Joint Support Team

Next Steps

• Week on ‘supporting de-escalating’.• Define the spectrum/framework … define intensive.• From Partners to Colleagues.• ‘Insight knowledge’ to ‘insight barriers’.• Knowledge to insight to wisdom.• Wisdom into practice.• ‘Insight knowledge’ about localities…neighbourhoods…

streets and families.

30 Month HealthVisitor Assessment 0 – 2

placements

3 years

SDQ in allschools

Joint Support Team

Education

Triple P

Social Work/ Addictions

Family Learning Centres

One Glasgow –Our Community

Assets

Joining the Dots.

Thankyou and any questions…