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Family Focus Plus

Southwark’s Troubled Families Programme


What is Family Focus Plus?

• Family Focus Plus (FFP) is Southwark’s Troubled Families programme

• Nationally agreed target of improving outcomes for 1085 families in Southwark by 2015

• aimed at families who are experiencing multiple difficulties

• Payment by Results model

• Core objectives: – reduce youth crime and anti-social behaviour – reduce truancy and/or exclusion from school – reduce the number of people not in work and claiming out-of-work

benefits


Who is it for? To be eligible families must meet at least two from A-C

A. Children excluded (permanent or 3+ fixed term), or not on a school roll, or school attendance less than 85%, or, attends Pupil Referral Unit (PRU) or alternative provision or any other equivalent attendance concern

B. Anti-social behaviour (ASB) by any member of the family, or offending by anyone under 18 in the family

C. Adult(s) in the family receiving out of work benefits

D. Any other high risk concerns, such as social care, domestic violence, housing, health issues etc

If a family meets the FFP criteria, a tracking tool must be completed so that they can be attached to FFP.


Eligible family examples

• No adult in the family working • Children attendance between 50% and 65% • Father in prison for crime 11 months ago• Young son engaged in criminal gang activity• Case open to children’s social care• Young person receiving support from gangs intervention

• Mum receiving out of work benefit

• 5 year old daughter not on school role

• Domestic violence between son and mum• Dad receiving out of work benefit• Complaints by neighbours re ASB

• One child less than 85% attendance

•6 year old daughter attendance 90% however professional concern due to 10% unauthorised absence• 14 year old excluded due to anti social behaviour issues• Currently receiving support from school SENCO


FFP in Southwark

• Aims to ensure a coordinated offer of support that is

family-focussed and makes a difference to outcomes

of families that meet the national criteria.

• Opportunity to think differently about how local system

supports families with the most complex needs and

ensure the outcomes of individual families improve from

the point at which they first engage with local

services.


How are services involved?

Professionals working with families are required to:

• Attach eligible families they are working with to the Family Focus Plus programme

• Take on a lead professional role to support whole families towards target outcomes, where appropriate

Professionals are supported by:

• FFP Champions –available for each service

• Southwark’s Virtual Professional Network


Why attach a family?

1) Attract as much funding to the borough as possible for services to TF

2) Get intelligence on other services involved

3) Use resources to best effect

4) Develop an evidence base of what works in supporting families with complex needs

5) Provide an opportunity to think and work differently with families


Lead Professional Responsibilities…

FFP identifying/ tracking responsibilities:

• Attach families that meet the TF criteria (where they have not already been attached)

• Report progress of families to the intelligence hub via the tracking tool

• Escalation of families that are not making sufficient progress towards expected outcomes to the identified FFP Champion within the service.

• Informing Intelligence Hub if no longer LP, so replacement LP can be identified/ allocated

• Gather and maintain evidence of achieving expected outcomes


…Lead Professional Responsibilities (cont’d)

‘LP role’ responsibilities:

Working to improve outcomes for families, including:

• Coordinate the professional network around families

• Hands on approach with support from others to achieve goals

Ensure there is an:

• up-to-date family assessment (where there is no statutory assessment a CAF should be used), where there is not, to undertake one

• up-to-date delivery plan and appropriate Team Around the Family (TAF) to support families achieve the required outcomes


Specialist Family

Focus Team (SFFT)

Family Lives

Family Action

= Commissioned service

Functional Family

Therapy(FFT)

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Employment

Assertive Family Support

Youth Offending

Service (YOS)

= Statutory and in-house provision

Key:

St Giles Trust

Early Help(EH)

Children’s Social Care(CSC)

Southwark Works (+ Job Centre Plus)

Family Focus Plus Virtual Professional Network:


Specialist Family Focus TeamStructure Chart


VCS Commissioned Services


What do I do now?

Identification and attaching families:

• If you are working with a family who meet the FFP eligibility criteria → complete a FFP Tracking Tool and submit to [email protected]

• The intelligence hub will validate the eligibility and formally ‘attach’ the family to the program

• Information should be provided on the whole family

• Notification should be made where additional support is required


Need more details?

See Guidance for Operational Services for further information

For any support please email: [email protected]

Any questions?

Www.southwark.gov.uk Family Focus Plus Southwark’s Troubled Families Programme.

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