‘Think Family’

The Hertfordshire Context Review of Integrated Practice - 2 years on  Reducing unnecessary escalation  Improving use of CAF process  Revised thresholds for accessing services  Multi-Agency Targeted Advice Service (interim) Strengthening Early Intervention & Prevention  Moving from virtual to actual Teams Around the child  Maximising capacity to intervene  Locally based multi-agency teams  Based on the Think Families Approach

38 Multi-agency locality teams Maternity & Primary Health 82 Children’s Centres 38 Extended School Consortia Integrated Youth Support Service Universal Targeted Specialist Specialist Services Social Care Disability 019 Integrated, personalised continuum of support Lead Professionals CAF ContactPoint Post-ECM Framework of Children’s Services? Third Sector Third sector Parents Local council services Joined up community health services for children under 3 Jointly commission with PCT and GPs Children’s Centres a ‘universal offer’ of early years development and wider services for families Schools to promote standards, well-being and resilience? School clusters to work in partnership with commissioning budget for prevention and early intervention? Systematic arrangements for early intervention – review ‘what works’ – put in place joint financial strategy across Children’s Trust ‘Youth Offer’ and scope for other specialist services? Actual multi-agency teams Link the teams to school clusters? Budget holding LPs? ‘Think Family’ focus on families with challenges. Strong links to adult services, health, housing and others. Better screening and clearer thresholds reduce referrals. High impact early intervention and family support reduce CP/CLA Less demand gives scope for higher quality Improved joint commissioning with Health, and better coordination of transition with ACS

A Spine of Service Delivery for Children and Families UNIVERSAL  Joined up community health services for children under 3  Children’s Centres – a universal offer of early years development and wider services for families  Schools working in clusters to promote standards, well-being and resilience TARGETED  Actual multi-agency teams developed around extended schools  Think Family focus on families with challenges SPECIALIST Support for children in care, children with CP Plans, offenders, children with mental health issues

Hertfordshire – the work so far  Hertfordshire’s 1 st ‘Think Family’ Conference – March 2009  Hertfordshire Think Family Practitioners  Family Intervention Programme (South Oxhey)  Development of local ‘Think Family’ teams (2010/12)  Housing Challenge Projects (2010/11)  Learning from existing projects (e.g. C2 projects, Drug Intervention Programme)

Hertfordshire – the way forward A spine of services that secure better outcomes for children, young people and families through a holistic approach to identification, assessment and intervention By co-ordinating effectively the support provided from children’s services, adult services, health services, the police, VCS and others The Think Family approach………………………….