Andrea Packer - Team Leader Attendance Welfare and Inclusion Service - Lewisham Sharing the Frome...

Andrea Packer - Team LeaderAndrea Packer - Team LeaderAttendance Welfare and Attendance Welfare and

Inclusion Service - LewishamInclusion Service - Lewisham

Sharing the Frome Sharing the Frome Learning Partnership Learning Partnership

School Champion Model – School Champion Model – supporting Children supporting Children affected by Parental affected by Parental

Imprisonment Imprisonment

"I just wanted someone to ask me if I was okay"

Frome Learning Frome Learning PartnershipPartnership

January 2014-December 2014 Behaviour and Vulnerability Manager Frome Learning Partnership Frome Somerset 18 schools within the Partnership First schools/middle schools/special

school and Year 9-13 provision


Background …..Background ….. Structure of Somerset’s PRU

provision changed in April 2013 majority grouped together to

become 4 area PRU schools Somerset discharged some of its

statutory duties through Satellite PR provision in Frome

Our children – our responsibility


Responsibilities…….Responsibilities……. Meet the needs of children at risk of

exclusion and excluded –s19 responsibilities

Provide alternative and additional strategies to meet the needs of vulnerable children and those at greatest risk

Provide preventative measures to reduce the likelihood of children needing additional support

Support the most vulnerable children and families in Frome


Supporting vulnerable Supporting vulnerable familiesfamilies Manage and coordinate a number of

services Create a method of monitoring need and

measuring progress Support schools by offering advice Having a shared behaviour strategy Support shared training needs Operate a panel to ensure fair access Operate a task management group to

assess effectiveness


Developing the CAPI Developing the CAPI model…model… Initial awareness training delivered to the

Learning Partnership about the impact of CAPI

Planning with Polly to identify ways that the Champions model could be developed

Presentation to Heads meeting about CAPI and the proposed champions model

Agreement to take this forward as a Learning Partnership


What happened next....What happened next.... Schools identified a member of staff to be

their Champion within their school community

School Champions attended Hidden Sentence Training in Bristol in September 2014

Champions Meeting held – to explore the roles and responsibility of the Champion

Identified the aims of the Champions Model Developed an Action Plan


The Role of the School The Role of the School Champion…..Champion….. Point of contact within a school

community for CAPI and attend 3 FLP Champion Group meetings per year

Attend the 1-day Hidden Sentence training course

Be a member of the national i-HOP service.

Be the identified point of contact for children and families affected by a family member’s offending


The Responsibility of the The Responsibility of the School Champion……School Champion…… Be the identified point of contact

for external agencies to share practice and guidance supporting child/family member affected by a family member’s offending

Provide non-judgemental, sensitive and informed support and information to children and families affected by a family member’s offending


The Responsibility of the The Responsibility of the School Champion…..School Champion….. Raise awareness about the needs of

children and families affected by a family member’s offending across their school community

Lead on the implementation of the FLP Champions Action Plan in their school

Awareness to work with children and families affected by a family member’s offending within the overarching behaviour and vulnerability strategies, policies and guidelines


Priorities to move the Priorities to move the model forward….model forward…. Identification of children in the FLP area

affected by family member imprisonment

Improved communication and awareness between key agencies and other professionals

Strategic buy-in to enable all agencies and professionals to work together within a strategic framework

Children and families are supported


The Frome Model The Frome Model today……today…… Renamed – CAPO – Children Affected by Parental

Offending Referral Pathways Protocol now in place –

suggesting as a minimum that a contact form is completed and a leaflet with the telephone number for the Families Helpline

CAPO Champion Contact Form – every contact recorded even if nfa and held by the individual school

Contact information collated centrally Behaviour and Vulnerability Data – updated to

record that a child is affected by parental offending


The Frome Model today…… Head Teacher attends County Strategic

CAPI Meeting – representatives from Police, Probation, Prisons, Children Social Care and Magistrates – focus upon developing protocols to support Children Affected by Parental Offending

Information Sharing Protocol is now in place

Schools continuing to publicise CAPO within their school communities

Resources purchased and held centrally for schools to use


Final thoughts…….Final thoughts…….

“I just wanted someone to ask me if I was okay……….”

Young person – Hidden Sentence Training September 2014

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