1. NSPCC: Programmes for children living in high risk families
Pam Miller, Senior Analyst, Strategy Unit, NSPCC

2. NSPCC: Priority Themes
Seven Priority Themes
neglected children
sexually abused children
physically abused children in high risk families
children under one
looked after children
children with disabilities
minority ethnic children

3. Physical Abuse in High Risk Families
Theme launch: Glasgow, 6 March 2012
Service Commissions currently being undertaken
SMILES
FED-Up
Caring Dads, Safer Children
New Orleans Intervention Model (NIM)
Domestic Abuse Recovering Together (DART)
Bespoke services (Parkside Mental Health Services and Family Alcohol Services)

4. Family SMILES (Simplifying Mental Illness plus Life Enhancement Skills)
A family approach for children who live with parental mental health difficulties
Based on the Australian SMILES programme

5. Family SMILES – programme specifics
Eight week group work programme for children aged 6 to 13
Reduce risk of harm to children who live with parental mental ill health
Improve the child’s capacity to cope more effectively
Develop protective factors in the child’s life and strengthen resilience
Improve self-expression and creativity
Increase self esteem
Reduce feelings of isolation
Provide age appropriate education about mental illness
Six individual sessions with parent(s)
Enhance the parent child relationship
Develop and enhance protective parenting
Reduce behaviours that increase levels of vulnerability and risk to the child.

6. Family SMILES – implementation and evaluation
Nine NSPCC locations
Coventry
Belfast
Southampton
Lincoln
Grimsby
Bristol
Manchester
Prestatyn
Middlesbrough
Evaluation tools
Rosenberg self esteem questionnaire
Health of the Nation Outcome Scales Child & Adolescent Mental Health (HONOSCA)
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)
Child Abuse Predictive Inventory (CAPI)

7. FED-Up – Family Environment: Drug Using Parents
A family approach for children who live with parental substance misuse
Based on FEDUP and SMART groups ”

8. FED-Up – programme specifics
Twelve week group work programme with children aged 5 to 12
Provide a non-stigmatising, non-threatening environment which can support children living at home and ensures they are kept safe.
Support children and young people by giving them a voice and someone to turn to for emotional support and promotion of their well being
Enhance the child’s self-esteem
Provide a safe environment for children in which to share experience and express wishes and feelings, which are acknowledged and heard
Promote social skills and social inclusion
Develop a safety plan for the child through an approach which is pragmatic and interactive in order to raise awareness of personal safety appropriate to the child’s age and understanding.
Parents are worked with individually prior to the group work with the children starting and then during the time the children are attending the group.
Promote parents knowledge and understanding of the impact of parental substance use upon their child/ren
Enhance protective parenting.

9. FED-Up – implementation and evaluation
Fourteen NSPCC locations
Blackpool
Coventry
Crewe
Glasgow
Grimsby
Hounslow
Hull
Lincoln
Evaluation tools
Rosenberg self esteem questionnaire
Health of the Nation Outcome Scales Child & Adolescent Mental Health (HONOSCA)
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)
Child Abuse Predictive Inventory (CAPI)
Liverpool
Londonderry
Manchester
Sheffield
Stoke
Warrington

10. Caring Dads, Safer Children
Programme is not a perpetrator programme
Programme to work with violent fathers in a parenting context
The Caring Dads programme was developed in Canada

11. Caring Dads, Safer Children – programme specifics
Seventeen week group; eight to twelve men in each group; two hours per session
Group co-lead by male and female facilitators
Men should currently care for or have contact with their children
Partners/ex-partners are offered support via the partner engagement worker
Children will be contacted at times during the group and at the end of the group to gather their views on progress made in the relationship with their father

12. Caring Dads, Safer Children - implementation and evaluation
Four NSPCC locations
Cardiff
Prestatyn
Belfast
Peterborough
Evaluation
Key difference from other evaluations and programmes is that assessment of parenting includes views of children.
Parenting Stress Index
Parental Acceptance and Rejection Questionnaire
Controlling Behaviour Inventory
Well being scales

13. Caring Dads, Safer Children – quantitative profile of fathers
Reporting on 72 men for whom we have data
Will be able to report on the following:
demographic information recorded on CRIS/Alpha
results of standardised measures
% of scores that are clinically significant
agencies already involved with father
Facilitators’ views on fathers’ commitment to the programme
Attrition and reasons for attrition and non-attendance

14. Caring Dads, Safer Children – profile of their children
Data available on 114 children*
Age: Ranged between 0 to 17 years. Mean = 6, Median = 5
Relationship to father: 88% child, 7% step-child, 5% NK
Gender: 44% female, 54% male, 2% NK
Father lives with children? 30% Yes, 65% No, 5% NK
Ethnicity: 46% Any Other White Background, 38% White British, 7% Welsh, 5% Mixed Background
*Not total number of children, awaiting data from groups.

15. Questions?
Di Jerwood, Development Manager, Physical Abuse in High Risk Families, NSPCC, ,
Pam Miller, Senior Analyst, NSPCC, ,