1. Innovations Programme Changing the way we work with Young People and their Families

2. Agenda Welcome Vulnerable Children’s Programme Innovations Bid – Why and what we are seeking to achieve Research in Practice/Dialogue Innovation Bid – Our thinking to date Tricky Questions

3. Projects Early Help Aim to prevent risk and support resilience Targeted & Specialist interventions Aim to reduce risk and increase resilience Safeguarding & Care Aim to manage risk and achieve permanence Enabling early Help & locality partnership development Locality based targeted support function - interim approach (incl. family support review) Children Centre Plus (Early Years, 0-11,Integrated service) Youth Support - Innovation Fund (11-25, CIN, safeguarding, children in care, care leavers) Refocus safeguarding 0-11 (incl. work with police, recruitment of SW) Children in Care Adoption Practices Models Performance Management & commissioning frameworks Communication Universal Vulnerable (Additional needs) Vulnerable (Multiple needs) Complex Acute

4. Decision-Making Other Funders Youth Justice BoardJoint Commissioning Partnership (Prospects)(CCG+GCC) Contract Board (CCG+2Gether) Accountable Body (CCG) Vulnerable Children Board (GCC)

5. Innovations Bid – Why Safeguarding for young people is different Our current model is reliant on a single professional view High number of young people coming into care with high needs – Section 20 (Voluntary Accommodation) Outcomes for young people coming into care as teenagers are poor Too much social worker time spent on assessment and not enough on intervention Service led approach rather than family led Too many individuals and services involved overwhelming families You’ve told us

6. What are we seeking to achieve? Redesign and reshaped front door – including short courses? Multi-disciplinary assessment and formulation that is tested, reviewed and informs planning and sequencing of work with a family Work is family led with ownership of plans resting with the young person and family Multi-disciplinary teams as standard To design and implement a clear underpinning theory of practice which will be based on a ‘risk, resilience and hazards model’ recognising that young peoples experiences, ways of becoming safe and changing their lives differ significantly from younger children To understand the type of organisation that should wrap around these arrangements

7. Who will be involved? Social Care – all families with children over 11 or where the primary issue is related to adolescence – Stella Potente 2gether NHS Foundation Trust – TBC – Sarah Batten Prospects – Youth Support Team – Rob England

18. Our Thinking So Far… Safeguarding definitions – Family care difficulties – Challenging and un-adaptive behaviours – Sex and relationships – Risky Exploratory behaviours – Health Behaviours

19. Model of assessment risk management and interventions Engagement, motivation and capacity to change Protective factors – resilience, strengths, assets, resources and coping mechanisms Hazards – temporary and more long term, vulnerabilities, weaknesses and risk Hazards – imminence, likelihood and impact

20. Model of Delivery Assertive engagement with families and young people Immediate response where required First View Assessment Formulation Planning and testing stage High risk planning Programmes and interventions Checking, recording and reviewing

21. Group Discussion Questions

22. Next Steps Programme Team – Alison Williams Helen PriceVicki Hazard Rob England – Sarah Batten Simon BilousVicki Butler Stella Potente – Sue Hall Madeleine CotonMariana Straton Jane Price Timescale for programme Role of Research in Practice/Dialogue Evaluation If you have any further questions, comments or thoughts please email us: innovation@gloucestershire.gov.uk