Download - aspiring impacts
aspiring impacts
Dr Stuart DuffinCentre for Excellence in Welfare to Work
area-based: outcome focused reducing child poverty tactics
Influences on Practice I
1 Climate of economic and social pressures
2 Prevention of long-term dependence on welfare
3 The need for parental choice with regard to care of young children
4 Expectation of participation in education, training and employment
Influences on Practice II
1 32,000 children are at risk of poverty -18.8% of all children in Ireland EUSILC, 2011
22011 Census 215,315 one-parent families in Ireland26% of all families with children22% - almost 352,000 - of all childrenSILC demonstrated one-parent households are the most deprived 56% classified as deprived
3 Maximising household resources
4 Improving children’s wellbeing and life chances
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What is said about current approach?
lack of commissioning of
services Unclear Role of State and semi-state
agencies
short-term funding initiatives
Fragmented
Too many pilots too little mainstreaming
Bureaucratic+
unresponsive
The challenges 1
• Increased risk of poverty due to dependence on welfare and no spare financial resources
• Tax and welfare traps coupled with transition costs in the system that deepen poverty and exclusion
• Internal barriers linked to low confidence and self-esteem
• Access to high quality, flexible and affordable childcare• Low educational attainment arising from early school
leaving and relevance of qualifications and skills to current labour market requirements
The challenges 2
• Social isolation and lack of personal supports and networks
• Access to transport to and from education, training and employment in both urban and rural areas
• Access to affordable quality housing • Health challenges arising from stress, domestic violence,
legal issues or a poor sense of general well-being • Reconciling work and family life
Going forward
• Ensuring a positive and equal future for all members of one-parent families
• Supporting families as they parent through times of family, work and life change - families in transition
• Delivering family centred services • Helping to enable better lives for parents and
children
supports
1.Focused specialist family support for progression to education, skill development and employment
2.Provision of expert parenting and family support to those parenting alone or sharing parenting
3.Tailored Reponses
Welfare to Work
from activation to welfare to work
• Options Programmes– delivers accredited programmes which cover the following areas: Enterprise
Skills; Work Trials; Customer Care; Essential Skills; Social Care, and others giving those parents enhanced skills for the labour-market
• careerclinic – a proactive and creative approach ,7 steps careerclinic provides
participants with practical support and advice on:• career review, assessment and guidance • CV preparation • interview techniques • how to capitalise on transferable skills in order to find
employment • challenges and solutions in parenting alone
Information
• Social welfare queries• Family law issues• Parenting• Childcare• Education and employment• Finances• Community supports and services
Parenting and Family Support Services
• Positive Parenting• Family Communications• Child Contact Centre• Dads’ Workshops• Shared Parenting• Parent Mentoring• Solution focused counselling• General counselling• Play therapy
Our model
new ideas that create value delivering a climate for inspiration
“……….enterprise and innovation are the engines of growth in the social economy”
The actions
• Challenge -- doing things differently• Customer Focus -- creating value • Creativity – generate possibilities • Communication -- open communication• Collaboration -- feed on interaction• Completion -- strong implementation• Contemplation -- gleaning the lessons
the mix
drivers-entryways to inspiring practice
Principles & asset base• Long term approach has three
underpinning principles:– Early intervention and
prevention: breaking cycles of poor outcomes
– Building on the assets of individuals and communities: moving away from a focus on deficits
– Ensuring that children and families needs are at the centre of service design and delivery.
• The principles of assets-based approaches include:
– Emphasising and supporting assets which enhance the ability of individuals, families and neighbourhoods to sustain health and wellbeing;
– Starting with what is working and what people care about;
– Building networks, friendships, self-esteem and feelings of personal and collective effectiveness and connectedness; promote health and wellbeing, enable people to make sense of their environment, help them take control of their lives; and
– Individuals and communities working with service providers to co-produce interventions and self-manage programmes of change.
goals & tasks
• maximise household resources in order to ensure that as few children grow up in poor households as possible.
• key outcomes:– Less families are in income
poverty/material deprivation (including in-work poverty)
– More parents are in good quality employment
– More families are financially capable and included
10-Point Anti-Poverty Strategy
Summary:• Monitoring and recording • Community participation• Community-based approaches • Integration into mainstream
programmes• Recognition of limitations:• Partnerships