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Troubled Families

Christine Pryor

Divisional Director, Targeted Family Support

Troubled Families Programme

• 120,000 most troubled families in England to be targeted
• 3 year programme with £100k per annum
• Funding received on a payments by results basis
• 645 families identified in Barking and Dagenham
• Estimated cost to tax payer of £48.375m

Definition of Troubled Family

• Children not attending school
• Involvement in crime and/or anti-social behaviour
• Not in work
• High cost to public purse

Criteria for Identifying Families

Criteria 1 – Crime/anti-social behaviour Criteria 2 – Education Criteria 3 – Work Criteria 4 – Local Discretion

Criteria 1 – Crime/Anti-social Behaviour

• Under 18 year olds with a proven offence in last 12

months and/or

• Members with anti-social behaviour order, injunction,

contract or housing related intervention in last 12 month

Criteria 2 – Education

• Child with permanent or 3 more fixed term school

exclusions in last 3 terms

• Child in Pupil Referral Unit or alternative provision

because they have been excluded

• Child not on a school roll
• Has 15% unauthorised absence or more from school in

last 3 terms

Criteria 3 – Work

• An adult on Department for Work and Pensions “out of

work” benefits

Criteria 4 – Local Discretion

• Vulnerable 2 year olds
• Children experiencing chronic neglect
• Children who are Children in Need or have Child

Protection plan

• Teenage parents
• Teenage parents
• At risk of eviction, with rent arrears
• Member in custody
• All exclusions and at risk of exclusion
• Known to Targeted Services

Success Criteria (Result)

• Each child family has had fewer than 3 fixed exclusions and

less than 15% unauthorised absence in last 3 terms

• 60% reduction in anti-social behaviour across the family in

last 6 months

• Offending rate by all minors in the family reduced by 33% in

last 6 months

• At least 1 adult in family has moved off out of work benefits

into continuous employment in last 6 months

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One adult in family has volunteered for Work Programme or attached to European Social Fund provision in last 6 months.

Financial Implications

• Average unit cost of intensive interventions is approximately

£10,000.

• DCLG is making available up to £4,000 for each troubled family.
• Council and partners are expected to make up the rest of the £6,000

investment.

• A proportion of the £4,000 will be paid upfront as an ‘attachment fee’

for the number of families with whom council starts working.

• LBBD has committed to working with 215 families in each year of

the programme.

• DCLG will provide attachment fee funding for every 5 out of 6

families.

• LBBD will therefore receive attachment feed funding for 179

families.

Income 2012 - 2015

2012/13 2013/14 2014/15 Total Income Income Up front attachment fee 179 families @ £3,200 179 families @ £2,400 179 families @ £1,600 Payment by result (Note 1) £0 £0 £0 Total Income £572,800 £429,600 £286,400 £1,288,800

Turning the Families Around

• Use of the Family Common Assessment
• A multi-agency approach
• Clear, focused action plans with measurable outcomes
• Small case loads enabling targeted work
• Use of voluntary sector

Profiles of 242 Identified Families

• 78 – Crime and anti-social behaviour
• 183 – Poor school attendance
• 216 – In receipt of out of work benefits
• 5 – Vulnerable 2 year olds
• 83 – Child protection plan or child in need
• 17 – Teenage parent
• 8 – Adult in prison
• 36 – At risk of eviction

Profiles of 242 Identified Families continued

• 20 – In rent arrears
• 44 – Excluded from school
• 91 – Social care
• 70 – Common assessment (previous)
• 30 – Open Common assessment
• 30 – Open Common assessment
• 103 – Known to multi-agency locality teams
• 14 - Family Intervention Project
• 59 – No assessment by Social Care, Common

Assessment or Youth Offending Service

Interim Outcomes Framework (examples)

• Parent expresses interest in accessing the job market

and developing work based experience/improving training skills

• Number of families of excluded children engaging with

the Parent Advocacy Project

• Reduction in number of days lost through fixed term

exclusions

• Number of families engaged with Family Common

Assessment Framework and attending review meetings

• Number of sessions absent each half term

Progress with Programme

• Identification of 242 families
• Training programme on Family CAF
• Lead professional for every family to initiate Family CAF
• Review of all social care assessments and action plans
• Contract with School/Home Support, Parent Support Advisors
• Contract with Carers of Barking and Dagenham, advocacy to

families with excluded children

• Merging of Family Intervention Project and Crisis Intervention

Teams to form Troubled Families Team

• Recruitment of 4 Targeted Family Support Workers, 2 Targeted

Youth Workers and 2 Family Intervention Project Workers to strengthen Troubled Families Team

• Intensive support from Reed Employment