COUNTY DURHAM FAMILY OUTCOME PLAN - Open Objects …

1 1 COUNTY DURHAM FAMILY OUTCOME plan Last update: 22/05/2015 2 FAMILY Outcomes plan The FAMILY Outcomes plan helps drive forward an agenda of service transformation, based on early intervention and outcomes-focussed intervention (as shown in appendix 1 Continuum of Needs model). The FAMILY Outcomes plan provides a partnership-wide framework with two elements: Issues or factors that affect families with multiple and complex needs Descriptions of the significant and sustainable outcomes that we want all families to achieve. Vision The FAMILY Outcomes plan contributes to the ambitions set out in the COUNTY DURHAM Sustainable Community Strategy (SCS) by ensuring that all partners work together to create a coherent system of support to the whole FAMILY , at the earliest opportunity and enables every child, young person and FAMILY to have the same opportunity and chances in life to become strong, resilient individuals and families.

2 The plan should be used within the context of the Early Help and Think FAMILY Strategies, both of which work towards meeting the needs of the most vulnerable, challenged and challenging families across COUNTY DURHAM . The framework also draws upon the priorities as described across the 5 Altogether Better themes. Altogether wealthier Altogether better for children and young people Altogether healthier Altogether safer Altogether greener 3 Use of the FAMILY Outcomes plan This framework should be applied to all families with complex and multiple needs requiring support at or above Step 3 of the Continuum of Needs model. It is not just those families specifically identified and supported under the remit of the Stronger Families Programme (payment by results programme).

3 Families will be identified under the Stronger Families Programme, where they meet two or more of the six themes. Relevant outcomes will be drawn from the Outcomes plan and must form the outcomes against which significant and sustained progress will be judged. The OUTCOME plan has been created to help identify and address the needs of those families who have many of the multiple and complex needs set out in the 6 themes below: 4 A key principle in the application of this framework is the use of qualitative and quantitative information sources to provide evidence of positive outcomes. Evidence will be drawn from a range of valid and reliable tools, as well as trusted data sources.

4 The Lead Professional and the Team around the FAMILY will have a vital role in judging whether the FAMILY has reached significant and sustained progress. This is not just a tool to use for those families identified for the Stronger Families programme, but as part of the support being offered to all families in COUNTY DURHAM . To evidence significant and sustainable progress, the FAMILY must achieve at least one OUTCOME in each of the themes which are relevant to the FAMILY at the point of assessment and engagement from the FAMILY . On achievement of the relevant outcomes, the FAMILY would be deemed by the Lead Professional and Team around the FAMILY as having made significant and sustainable progress and are turned around (as shown below).

5 5 Stronger Families Programme headline theme 1 : Parents and Children involved in Crime or Anti-Social Behaviour Identified issues 1. Households with 1 or more adult with parenting responsibilities or under 18 year old with a proven offence in the last 12 months1 2. Households where 1 or more member has perpetrated at least one recorded ASB incident or received an ASB warning letter(s) in the last 12 months and provides a professional with concern regarding escalation; 3. Households subject to ASB / Housing intervention within the last 12 months; 4. An adult prisoner who is less than 12 months from his/her release date and will have parenting responsibility or is serving a community order or suspended sentence; 5.

6 An adult with parenting responsibility who has been sentenced for 1 or more crime in the last 12 months and not subject to an order2 6. An adult with parenting responsibility / child that is at risk of becoming involved in crime and / or ASB and is identified by a professional. Significant and Sustained OUTCOME Sources/Tools a. 33% reduction in proven crime over 6 months3 Careworks YOS / PNC and Sleuth DURHAM Constabulary b. 60% reduction in recorded ASB incidents over 6 months4 Orcuma First / Police call out data / ASB Team / Housing Providers c. Successful completion and no breach of licence conditions and / or community order, including alcohol and drug programmes National Probation Service / CRC 1 This includes offences solved by Restorative Approaches 2 This includes Conditional discharge, fixed penalty notice or ticket 3 Mandatory OUTCOME for issues 1, 2 4 Mandatory OUTCOME for issues 3.

7 4 6 5 90% attendance must be achieved as part of any claim made under significant and sustained progress across the 6 themes with the exception of an adult finding sustained employment which can be a stand-alone result for payment. 90% attendance should be achieved within mainstream school or full time alternative provision Stronger Families Programme headline theme 2: Children who have not been attending school regularly Identified issues Children who are subject to / have had: 1. Permanent exclusion; 2. 3 Fixed term exclusion (or a primary school aged child with 5 days of exclusion, or any child with 10 days of fixed term exclusion) across three consecutive terms; 3.

8 Attending Pupil Referral Unit due to previously being excluded from a school and / or as part of an intervention to improve school behaviour/attendance; 4. 10% unauthorised absences from school across the last three consecutive terms or there is evidence of a pattern of poor attendance ( authorised absence, late or missed sessions) that gives the Head Teacher / education professional / Team around the School an equivalent level of concern; 5. Missing from education and are not on a school roll; 6. Attending Alternative Provision to address behavioural difficulties or patterns of poor behaviour which provides an equivalent level of concern Significant and Sustained OUTCOME Sources/Tools a.

9 All children in the household must achieve each of the following: - be on school roll or accessing appropriate full-time alternative provision; - attend at above 90% across 3 consecutive terms5; - have fewer than 3 fixed term exclusions across 3 consecutive terms; - have no subsequent permanent exclusion(s) across 3 consecutive terms. School Census / Capita One 7 Stronger Families Programme headline theme 3: Children who need help Identified issues 1. Children assessed as requiring additional help on or above step 3 of the DURHAM Staircase (this will include Looked After Children, those subject to Child Protection plan , Children in Need and those eligible for Pre-Birth intervention); 2.

10 Families that are identified by a professional as a concern and require additional help which include teenage parents, young carers, children that repeatedly go missing from home, adults/children at risk of sexual exploitation; 3. Children who are identified by Health Visiting services for Universal Partnership Plus; 4. Families where children under 5 are not taking-up the free entitlement to nursery education for under 2 year olds. Significant and Sustained OUTCOME Sources/Tools a. FAMILY de-escalated, FAMILY plan outcomes are met and no referrals to statutory services over 6 months SSID / Capita One (Single Assessment information b. All children take up nursery education and have 90% attendance across 3 consecutive terms6 Capita One Sustained contacted for vulnerable groups / CAS Early Years Child Care team c.)