Children and Families – Early Help and Prevention

Provider Event

17th July 2013

Janet Doran – Assistant DirectorChildren and Families, Early Help

and Prevention

Aims of session

To inform all interested parties of:-• Prevention and Demand Management

Strategy journey to date• Early Help and Prevention in

Northamptonshire• Commissioning process for Early Help and

Prevention

Prevention and Demand Management

£Contracted Services

Data Performance Information

Business Systems

Vulnerable individuals/families/communities

EH & Prev

Social Care Staff

Public Service Bodies

Tier

Universal

SpecialistSpecialist

Universal

Costs savings generated by reduction in

volume (Stock and Flow)

Prevention / earlier

intervention (Stage not age)

Helping You to Help

yourself

Helping You when you can’t help yourself

Prevention and Demand Management

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Social Care

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Early Help (e.g. schools,)

Universal Services (e.g. schools, libraries)

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Children and Families – Early Help and Prevention

Journey to date

Deborah Mahon – Service Manager Policy and Partnerships, Early Help

and Prevention

Early Help and Prevention – journey to date

• Consultation• Targeted Prevention Service – skilled generalist• Helping Families to Help Themselves Directory• Fair and Equitable Funding Formula• Needs Assessment• Strategy Review• Cabinet agreement – June 2013

Prevention Consultation - Methodology

• Open Public Events

• Targeted customer events

• Targeted prevention teams

Principles that were consulted on....

• One person to help with a number of different problems that a family has so that you don’t have to see lots of different people

• Able to get help from someone who is a specialist when it is needed

• Help is available locally (Early Help Forum Areas) • Services are checked and information about them is

available to staff and parents when they need it

Agreed Outcomes• Physical Living Environment: All families maintain healthy and stable

living conditions

• Economic Wellbeing: All families are strong enough to manage stress over money, poverty and unemployment

• Social Interaction: All families can give and receive support from friends, neighbours and the wider community

• Education and Skills: All children and young people do well in education and this gives them the skills they need to find work

• Physical and mental health and healthy living: All families maintain good health and wellbeing for happy, healthier, longer lives

• Parenting: All parent(s) or caregiver(s) support their children’s healthy physical, emotional, learning and social development

• Family Relationships: All families maintain stable and good quality family relationships

NCC Targeted Prevention Service

• Focussed interventions with families at Level 3 to reduce risk – targeted home based support with a lead professional, persistent support, family driven

• Stepped down or prevention not requiring Social Care response, preventing Criminal Justice response

• Offer extended from 0 to 19

Role and Attributes of ‘Skilled Generalist’• A practitioner with a background in working with

children, young people and families in their homes or in a community context

• Holding a comprehensive skills set that enables him or her to work on adult behaviours and the impact on a child or young person’s wellbeing by employing solution focussed ways of working with families to effect change

• To work with families in a safe way and know when to escalate concerns or seek more expert advice as the need arises

• To be tenacious, confident and persistent when working with highly resistant families

• Have good networks, links with services and a holistic approach

Helping Families to Help Themselves Directory

HFtHTDirectory

Web based tool, for practitioners and citizens to use to determine the right support at the right timeExample Interventions:-•Mental Health

support•Domestic abuse•Sexual violence•Addiction•Counselling

Fair and Equitable Funding Formula

• The Fair and Equitable Funding Methodology (FEFM) was developed using the principles of the Indices of Multiple deprivation. The model can be used to analyse patterns of deprivation and identify those living in areas with higher levels of need and greater levels of disadvantage.

The ModelData Sets

Sets of Criteria

Rankings for each area

1 – 407

Given Weighting

Fed into a Domain Index

Fair and Equitable Funding allocated by area

For each Lower

Output Area in

the County

Early Years / Children’s Centres

Young People

Access - Rural

Deprivation

Adults - Vulnerable

Community Safety

Domains / Themes

Communities

Data sets for these Domains, see updated Fair and Equitable Funding Model Domains and Datasets document.

Needs Assessment priorities identified

• Reducing incidence of domestic violence ;• Reducing incidence of abuse and neglect ;• Reducing the number of adolescents with

challenging behaviour ;• Reducing impact of drug and alcohol use on

children and their families;• Services that support improved Mental Health /

wellbeing ;• Support for Parenting.

Statutory and priority services forEarly Help and Prevention

• Children’s Centres • Interpersonal Violence Services• Youth Provision • Services for young people with challenging

behaviours• Parenting

Early Help in Northamptonshire

• Thresholds and Pathways

• Early Help Forums

• CAFF - CAFF for all Children and Families who have needs/risks identified (levels 2 - Early Help and 3 – Targeted Prevention)

Early Help offer needs to demonstrate

• Focus on outcomes – e.g. distance travelled

• Effective processes for sharing information

• Voice of the child in service development

• Quality Assurance

Early Help and Prevention Commissioning

Joe Apea

Commissioning Manager

A commissioning cycle

Outcomes

• We commission for outcomes• Sometimes proxy measures for outcomes are

appropriate• We need to commission on return on

investment• Once we have procured, we contract monitor

against the successful bid

Distance Travelled

• It’s the ‘so what’ question?

• Has the support delivered made a difference?

• And can this be evidenced?

• We must be measured every time

Sharing Information

• Information governance arrangements• Interface with the Council and other partners• Barriers to information sharing• Customers tell us they want to tell their story

once• Ability to access interventions in one place• Service transfer – mobilisation and

implementation phase

Engagement phase

Do......

• Engage creatively• Engage realistically• Consider what you do and can offer• Listen to commissioners (and others)

Procurement phaseDon’t .......• Misread the questions• Ignore the scoring levels• Ignore what commissioners have said they are

buying in the service specification• Assume your reputation will go before you• Assume that scorers will refer to information

from outside the process• Think that procurement is about lobbying

Early Help and Prevention

Ongoing engagement:Web pagehttp://www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/en/

councilservices/social-care/plans/prevent/Pages/Prevention-strategy.aspx

Emailcfehpadmin@Northamptonshire.gov.uk

Commissioning Managers:

Rachel SansonRSanson@northamptonshire.gov.uk 01604 367903

Joe ApeaJApea@northamptonshire.gov.uk 01604 366595

Supporting Services Tender:Briefing on Scope, Budgets & Timelines

What’s in Scope?

• Services to support work at level 2, 3 and 4• Domestic abuse• Youth provision• Adolescents with challenging behaviour• Support for parenting

Supporting Services Tender...

Supporting Service Tender:Lots and Term of Contract

• Contracts will be released in 10 “lots” that reflect Early Help Forum areas:

– 1 x Corby, 1 x Daventry, 1 x East Northants, 1 x Kettering, 1 x South Northants, 1 x Wellingborough

– 4 x Northampton

Early Help Forum Areas:

Indicative Budget and FEFM Split

Lot Support Services

Allocation

% of Total Budget

Corby £336,000 11.20%Daventry £245,000 8.18%East Northants £288,000 9.61%Kettering £396,000 13.19%Northampton Central £296,000 9.89%Northampton East £368,000 12.27%Northampton North £222,000 7.34%Northampton West £290,000 9.68%Northampton Total £1,176,000 39.19%South Northants £193,000 6.44%Wellingborough £366,000 12.2%Total c£3,000,000 100%

Key Target Dates

• Cabinet approval – 11 June 2013• Today’s provider event – 17 July 2013• End of July – collation of all TUPE information• Stakeholder feedback on draft specification –

during July and August• Launch of Invitation to Tender – mid-September• Tender will close – mid-November

Key Target Dates – Continued...

• Tender evaluation and moderation will run from November to the end of December

• Award of tender – early to mid-January 2014

• Mobilisation, transition and implementation – January to end of March 2014

• Services commencement date – April 2014

Don’t forget to keep checking the Prevention web page for summary of today’s information!

Commissioning Managers:

Michael Robinsonmirobinson@northamptonshire.gov.u

k 01604 367451 David Perrin

dperrin@northamptonshire.gov.uk 01604 367594

Children’s Centre Services Tender:

Briefing on Scope, Budgets, Timelines etc

What’s in Scope?

• Delivering the “Core purpose” (National)• Adhering to refreshed statutory guidance (National)• Linking to SEND Developments (National &

Northamptonshire)• Adhering to Northamptonshire’s “Thresholds &

Pathways” document• Maximising use of NCC and Partners buildings

Children’s Centre Services Tender...

What’s in Scope (Cont)?

• Delivering to the Targeted Prevention principle• Appropriate “Support Services – Children and families”

activity where child (ren) under 5. e.g. Parenting support

• Linking to Family Learning opportunities• Maximising Volunteering opportunities

Children’s Centre Services Tender...

Indicative Budget and FEFM Split

Lot Children’s Centre Services

Allocation

% of Total Budget

Corby £1,164,832 11.20%Daventry £850,926 8.18%East Northants £999,363 9.61%Kettering £1.372.449 13.19%Northampton Central £1,029,039 9.89%Northampton East £1,276,884 12.27%Northampton North £763,825 7.34%Northampton West £1.006.951 9.68%Northampton Total £4,076,699 39.19%South Northants £670,153 6.44%Wellingborough £1,269,288 12.2%Total £10,403,710 100%

Key Target Dates

• Cabinet approval – 11 June 2013• Today’s provider event – 17 July 2013• Consultation 5th July – 27th September• Specification Development – July to October• Cabinet report – 8th October• Prior Qualification Questionnaire launched –

16th October

Key Target Dates – Continued...

• Invitation To Tender (ITT) launched – Early Dec 13

• ITT Closes – Mid to late Jan 14• Evaluation and moderation – Late Jan and Feb 14• Award of tender – March 14• Mobilisation and transition period – April – Jun 14• Contract begins – Jul 14

Don’t forget to keep checking the Prevention web page for summary of today’s information!

Current Children’s Centre Consultation and its link to Service

Tender:

• Quantitative and qualitative aspect• Results of both to influence the specification• Findings at County and “lot” level to be made

available to prospective bidders• Possible Property implications

Maximising use of Assets

Expect bidders to grasp and indentify opportunities relating to

• Current Children’s Centre buildings• Library buildings• Health buildings• Outreach via other organisations buildings

Other useful info for prospective bidders

• Align Strategic Outcomes to associated CC Outcomes. CC outcomes will then be linked to key performance indicators

• Expect to contract with one “Lead” organisation per lot – Consortiums can be formed but in the form of a subcontracting relationship. Lead organisation will be accountable for the overall total performance

• Current commitment that the indicated year 1 budget will be evident in both year 2 and year 3

Further Details

• http://www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/en/councilservices/social-care/plans/prevent/Pages/Prevention-strategy.aspx