Croydon Partnership Early Help Service Locality Operating Model

Croydon Partnership Early Help Service Locality Operating Model

Early Help transformation – the journey so far……

Early Help transformation – next steps

What is the vision in Croydon? • Co-located partnership working, including with statutory and voluntary sectors • Locality Early Help teams supported by partners putting in place the right interventions and actively working with families at an intensive level • Consent - gained once • Partnership Locality Panels for complex families • Families supported by one Child and Family Wellbeing assessment • High quality, evidence based interventions • Working across full age range (0 -18)

What is the offer? Lead Professional Function Step Down Casework from Children Social Care Early Help Consultations based in the Single Point of Contact (SPOC) Family Group Conferences Access to three Locality Hubs (To work or meet families) Family Functional Therapy Child & Family Wellbeing Assessment Advocacy & One to One Sign Posting Family Work

Parenting Support (Groups/1: 1) Parent Infant Partnership (Pi. P) Emotional Health & Wellbeing Support Youth Service Engage’ Parental Mental Health Consult’ Troubled Families Wraparound Support Education Support Consultation for Casework where Domestic Abuse features Parental Substance Misuse Consultation Support with Welfare Benefits

Benefits of our Locality Operating Model • Ease of access - ensuring that all sectors of the Croydon community are in ‘reach’ and have access to ‘localised’ services and support • Wanting to work better together across all teams and local agencies • Supporting as early as possible - Building on Eileen Munro’s principles of “Early Help, should mean Early Help” • Minimising the number of assessments and changes of professional • Making full use of our freedoms as a non-statutory service • Delivering interventions based on the needs of children and families, not service structures

Locality Universal & Additional Support offer • • List of partnership services on our Council website Parenting Programmes services (requested through a MARF) Youth Engagement Universal community offer Access to our Best Start 0 -5 provision Croydon Local Intelligence Programme (CLIP) Parent Infant Partnership (PIP) services Consultations & Support from our SPOC Early Help consultants Access & Support from our locality Early Help teams with the ability to use the locality bases for partnership working • Universal programmes across the borough offered by the Youth Engagement Team • Team Around the School programme

Parent Infant Partnership The Parent Infant Partnership (PIP) is a service for parents-to-be & parents of babies up to 24 months. The Service aim is to provide help for families within the local community to build stronger parent-infant bonds and positive relationships. PIP offer the primary caregiver (usually the mother) a range of therapeutic interventions and support to develop a secure attachment within the parent-infant relationship. PIP work in the home and in a variety of community settings, such as Children Centres, hospitals and voluntary sector settings.

Youth Engagement Service Realigned Practice in line with Croydon growing youth population, current youth trends & the findings of the Adolescence Review 2019: • Edge of Care – Young People at Risk • Targeted Youth Support – 1; 1 support, CSE, Missing CME Self-Esteem & Emotional Health • Detached & Outreach – Community Hotspots, Mentoring, Programme Delivery • Engagement & Participation – Young Mayor, Children Looked After & Leaving Care • Programmes & Specialist Delivery – Schools and Voluntary sector As part of our commitment to Engage with our most vulnerable young people, the Youth Engagement Service in collaboration with Bright Spots will be undertaking a Croydon wide survey based on a national research programme with Children Looked After & Leaving Care, focusing on hearing their voice, gaining an in-depth understanding of their care experience and using the findings to shape the medium to long term.

Youth Engagement Services We provide a range of universal and targeted youth opportunities for 8 -18 year olds across Croydon; • We support the Young Mayor and Deputy, Youth forums and Youth Cabinet • Deliver schools programmes around; building resilience, good role models, risks and consequences. • School holiday projects; particularly summer and Easter • Termly projects such as sport, art, music and drama • Outreach & Detached - Locality & Housing Estate based engagement • Partnership working with the Voluntary sector including joint projects • Current priorities: Choose your Future campaign, mental health awareness, crime reduction & employability and life skills

Family Group Conference Service An FGC is a family-led planning meeting in which the whole family comes together to make a plan for a vulnerable child. This ‘family plan’ should address problems that have been identified, usually by professionals who know the child (like the social worker) or sometimes by the family themselves. The child is usually at the meeting (if they are old enough) and they may have an advocate to help them have a say.

Early Help Performance Data – Based on May 2019 Early Help is currently working with 272 families according to May 2019 performance data, which equates to 614 children across the 3 Early Help locality areas 300 266 250 200 178 150 100 50 0 Locality Team (Central) Locality Team (North) Locality Team (South)

Early Help Performance Data – Based on May 2019 Cases in which Early Help are working alongside Children Social Care during the month of May 2019 = 32 families 14 13 12 10 8 8 6 5 4 3 2 2 1 0 Adult Mental Health & Substance Misuse FFT Parenting FGC Family & Key Worker Support Domestic Abuse

Early Help Performance Data – Based on May 2019 Cases that stepped down from Children’s Social Care to Early Help during May 2019 equated to 59 families 35 31 30 25 20 15 10 7 4 5 4 6 5 1 1 CWD 3 CWD 4 0 No Current Department Recorded Assessment Team Assessment Team 1 5 3 2 4

Performance Data Summary Snapshot – Based on May 2019 Number of Referrals into Early Help – 209 up by 57 referrals on the month prior Percentage of re-referrals within 12 months – 10%, down 12% on the April 2019 cohort Percentage of cases closed due to family disengaging with support – 14%, a reduction on the last 2 months prior, which was 25% & 29% respectively. Our aim is under 5% Number of Early Help assessments completed – 126, up on the last 2 months by 105 & 45 respectively. This shows that we are completing assessments on families more efficiently and without delay. Percentage of Early Help cases that were stepped up to CSC – 13% of the caseload. Our target is less than 5%

For further information on the Croydon Partnership Early Help offer visit: https: //www. croydon. gov. uk/healthsocial/families/ccfpartnership /early-help