Themed Breakout: Intensive Family Support
Paul Carberry, Director of Service Development, Action for Children,
Mike Burns, Head of Social Work Services North West Glasgow and
Sheila Erskine, Children’s Services Manager, Action for Children
Intensive Family Support
• Welcome and Introductions
• What we know
• Work of the Family Support Sub Group to date
• Vision for the future of Family Support
• How Intensive Family Support links to the work of the Early Years Collaborative
Stretch Aim 1
To ensure that women experience positive pregnancies which result in the birth of more healthy babies as evidenced by a reduction of 15% in the rates of stillbirths (from 4.9 per 1,000 births in 2010 to 4.3 per 1,000 births in 2015) and infant mortality (from 3.7 per 1,000 live births in 2010 to 3.1 per 1,000 live births in 2015).
Stretch Aim 2
To ensure that 85% of all children within each Community Planning Partnership have reached all of the expected developmental milestones at the time of the child’s 27-30 month child health review, by end-2016.
Stretch Aim 3
To ensure that 90% of all children within each Community Planning Partnership have reached all of the expected developmental milestones at the time the child starts primary school, by end-2017.
What parents have said they want
– Trust and respect between parents and practitioners
– Better communication between parents and practitioners
– Practitioners who boost parental confidence by acknowledging the areas in a family’s life that are going well
– Practitioners acknowledging parents know their children best and therefore fully informing and involving them in any decisions made about their children
(taken from Bringing Up Children: Your Views, Sept 2012
And available from www.scotland.gov.uk)
Multi-agency partnerships Whole family
approach Integrated
assessment
Understanding of impact of poverty
Resourceful relationships over time
Shared value base
Family centred but child focused
Delivered by resilient organisations
Key components of Intensive Family Support
Putting the strategic vision into practice
Aberdeen Families Service
A continuum of care and support A range of programmes Integrated and collaborative from referral to
closure
Supporting Moray Families
Targeted intervention Flexible resourcing Scientific success
Putting the strategic vision into practice
Progressive Universalism
Family Support Framework
Statutory Social Work
Recovery
Therapy
Virtuous Single System
Progressive Universalism
Coping
Family Support Framework
Just Coping
Statutory Social Work
Vulnerable Chaotic
Therapy resilience/ recovery
Single System
Integrated Support Team
Joint Support Team
Joint Support Team
Next Steps
• Week on ‘supporting de-escalating’.• Define the spectrum/framework … define intensive.• From Partners to Colleagues.• ‘Insight knowledge’ to ‘insight barriers’.• Knowledge to insight to wisdom.• Wisdom into practice.• ‘Insight knowledge’ about localities…neighbourhoods…
streets and families.
30 Month HealthVisitor Assessment 0 – 2
placements
3 years
SDQ in allschools
Joint Support Team
Education
Triple P
Social Work/ Addictions
Family Learning Centres
One Glasgow –Our Community
Assets
Joining the Dots.