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How Are Families Experiencing Poverty in Fermanagh and Omagh?
Seana Connor
Fermanagh & Omagh Early Intervention Family Support Hubs
The Fermanagh & Omagh Early Intervention Family Support Hubs
are a signposting service. They are a multi agency network of
organisations that either provide early intervention services
or work with families who need early intervention services.
8 June, 2018
Early Intervention refers to intervention (support) ‘early in the life of a child’ or ‘early in the life of a problem’.
The aim of the Hubs
The aim of the Hubs is to ensure that families in need of support can choose the right help from the right service at the right time.
How we do it? Hubs signpost professionals and families to the services they need. The Hubs look at the needs of the family and work to match the family needs to the best possible services that can help.
Families & Professionals will receive the option of having their referrals anonymised and discussed at Hub Quorums that occur once a month where Hub partners will be present.
The Hub coordinator will provide recommendations about the service(s) which is best suited to meet the needs of a family.
This can be a service provided by a core member of the Hub or an organisation closely associated with the Hub.
– Action for Children
– ADHD NI
– The ARC Healthy Living Centre
– Brain Injury Matters
– Breakthru
– CAMHS
– Community Family Support Programme
– Daisy
– Devenish Partnership Forum
– Mindwise Family Wellness Project & Mums Wellness Project
– Fermanagh & Omagh Women’s Aid
– F.I.N.D. Centre
– Home-Start
– Men’s Action Network - MAN
– Mencap
– New Horizon – Action Mental Health
– Oak Healthy Living Centre
– NICCY
– NSPCC
– PSNI Youth Diverson
– Schools Counselling
– Support 2gether
– Surestart
– Tiny Life
– • Educational Psychology Service
– • The Education Welfare Service (WELB)
– • The Youth Service (Education Authority)
– RISE NI (previously WEST Team)
– • Autism Spectrum Disorder Service
– • Children’s Disability Service
– • Erne & Riverside Family Centres
– • Gateway Social Services
– • Sensory Support
Fermanagh & Omagh Hub Partners
• Robust referral screening for all referrals to Hub
• Home visits available for parental self-referrals
• Signpost families to services required
• More complex cases are brought to Hub Quorum meetings – held monthly with Hub members with the purpose of identifying & coordinating family support services locally
• Unmet needs captured & recorded by Hub members and shared with Locality Planning Coordinator
• Annual Hub Planning Meetings to evaluate & measure progress
• Agency networking & information-sharing
• Local partnerships with: Drug & Alcohol Forum, Neighbourhood Renewal & FIND Centre
Operation of Fermanagh & Omagh Hubs
• Adult Mental health Issues
• Bereavement support
• Practical / Fincancial / Childcare support
• Counselling services for children / young people / parents / families
• Disability support
• Domestic violence
• Drug/alcohol related harm/abuse by child or young person (0-18) or adults (including parents)
• Education and employment support
• Emotional and behavioural difficulty support for children &
parents
• Emotional support for child (bullying, separation etc.)
• Family breakdown
• Housing / Homelessness
• Offending (at risk behaviour) for children and young people
• Parenting programmes/parenting support
• School attendance
• Self harming (child)
• Young carer
• Youth activities/support & 1-1 support for young people
Reasons for referrals
• Parents experiencing difficulties in dealing with behaviours in children – disrespect, challenging behavior, non-compliance, attention, listening…
• Compromised parenting – parental mental health needs, economic/social difficulties, past domestic abuse, separation
• Mental Health issues – anxiety/depression
• Loss – bereavement, parental separation
• Special needs – pre-diagnosis & initial diagnosis ASD, ADHD, Special Educational Needs
• Poverty – access to social activities for kids, essential household goods etc.
• Bullying, Online Safety/Sexting, LGBT+ issues...
Trends & Main Issues presenting to Hubs
Thank you for listening!
–Seana Connor
Fermanagh Hub Coordinator
028 6632 4181
–Karen McHugh
Omagh Hub Coordinator
028 8225 9495
Any
Questions??
Helen O’Neill
Lists Family Support Services & all Registered childcare in NI …
www.familysupportni.gov.uk
Online Directory
Families Young People
Front Line Staff
Finding Childcare Planners
Information on Website ?
1) Family Support & 2) REGISTERED Childcare Providers
Services available ? (Statutory/Community/Voluntary/Private) • Contact Details e.g. Address/Tel/Email • Overview of service provided • How can these services be accessed ?
Search Family Support Services :-
You can search options in various ways :-
• Choose a Service/Keyword Search • Postcode Search • Any Distance
Choose a Service :-
Or use Keyword Search
Search can be narrowed by Postcode / Distance
e.g. Financial/Welfare advice near BT74 7DP
Using the website
The service you require can then be viewed on screen, viewed on a map or printed.
Street View :-
Search results can be exported …
Translations After you have performed a search function on the website you can have the results translated into a range of languages by selecting the ‘Select Language’ option at the bottom of the home page
e.g. … In French
Childcare Information
• Most up-to-date available • REGULAR updates from all Early Years
Teams • New Registrations/De-Registrations • Changes to contact details e.g.
address/phone no etc
Extra details will provide parents with more information to enable them to make informed choices about childcare:-
Search Results :– Vacancies/Exp of Disability/School Pick Up …
• Used by HMRC to validate registered childcare providers and facilitate payment of Tax Free Childcare
• Dept. of Communities also will use this website to verify registration
• Childcare Voucher Schemes eg Employers for Childcare
• Lifeline/Contact NI staff
Data held on website is used by planners to map various services …
Location of Family Support Hubs
Child Contact Centres
Sure Starts
Young Carer Support - Newry
Other Organisations download information from this website e.g. • Early Years - For App • NICMA - Mailing Lists for Conferences • CES - For Mapping Services • NI Direct - For Mental Health Services • Playboard - Out of School Provision • En. Health - Food Safety/Childminders
Future Plans for Website … Currently getting re-built Provision for additional information on both Family Support and Childcare Mobile Version Inspection reports
Staff available via mailbox and/or telephone to answer queries/signpost
0845 600 6483
www.familysupportni.gov.uk receives 45,000 to 50,000 hits per month
Alan Mitchell
Poverty in Fermanagh and Omagh
~A Statistical Overview~
Alan Mitchell
Data Scientist
Fermanagh and Omagh District Council
25th May 2018
Overview
Poverty: the statistical jargon
• How is poverty measured?
• Equivalised household income
Drivers of poverty
• Income
• Education / Skills / Training
• Health and Wellbeing
• Caring responsibilities
• Lack of minimum needs
• Opportunities and costs
Multiple Deprivation Measure
Conclusion
Poverty: the statistical jargon
Definition of poverty
Relative Poverty
• Equivalised Household income < 60% of UK average income (in the year in question).
• Whether the poorest are seeing their incomes rise in real terms
Absolute Poverty
• Equivalised household income < 60% of the UK average household income in 2010-11 (adjusted for inflation).
• Whether the poorest are keeping pace with the growth of incomes in the economy as a whole
What does that look like?
Single person, no children
£9,700
Couple with no children
£14,500
Single person with children
aged 5 and 14
£17,400
Couple with 2 children
aged 5 and 14
£22,200
What does that look like in Fermanagh and Omagh…
…and in the NI context?
Children in poverty – FODC & NI
Children in poverty – within Fermanagh and Omagh
% %
Lisanelly 50 Drumquin 19
Devenish 45 Owenkillew 19
Strule 37 Drumnakilly 19
Lisnaskea 35 Sixmilecross 18
Killyclogher 32 Termon 18
Gortrush 32 Donagh 18
Newtownbutler 31 Gortin 17
Camowen 30 Derrygonnelly 17
Fintona 30 Kesh Ederney and Lack 17
Irvinestown 29 Tempo 17
Rosslea 29 Lisbellaw 16
Erne 28 Boho Cleenish and Letterbreen 16
Rossorry 27 Derrylin 16
Drumragh 27 Brookeborough 16
Belleek and Boa 25 Maguiresbridge 16
Castlecoole 24 Newtownsaville 14
Coolnagard 24 Clanabogan 13
Dergmoney 22 Florence Court and Kinawley 13
Beragh 21 Trillick 12
Portora 21 Ballinamallard 11
Dromore 21 Lisnarrick 11
Belcoo and Garrison 20 Fairy Water 9
Source: Child Poverty Unit, DWP
% children living in low income families, Fermanagh and Omagh wards,
2014
Multiple Deprivation Measure
7 Domains (and supporting info)
• Income (25%)
• Employment (25%)
• Health Deprivation & Disability (15%)
• Education, Skills and Training (15%)
• Access to Services (10%)
• Living Environment (5%)
• Crime & Disorder (5%)
890 Superoutputareas (SOAs)
Drivers of Poverty
What drives poverty?
Increase Incomes
Education / Skills / Training
Health and Disability
Caring responsibilities
Lack of minimum
needs
Opportunities and choices
Income
291 299
342 338
365
366 363382
393410
200
250
300
350
400
450
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
£ p
er
we
ek
Fermanagh and Omagh NI
Weekly wage, Fermanagh and Omagh and NI, 2013 - 2017
Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings
FODC NI
Economically Active 70% 74%
In employment 66% 69%
Unemployed 4% 5%
Economically Inactive 30% 26%
Source: Labour Force Survey 2016
Average Salary
FO: £19,000
NI: £22,000
21% of
economically
inactive are
‘long term sick’ Census 2011
Income – within Fermanagh and Omagh
Income Domain
% households
below median
income Income Domain
% households
below median
income
Rosslea 14 22% Strule 258 15%
Lisanelly_1 21 21% Drumquin 303 14%
Devenish 28 21% Derrygonnelly 307 14%
Newtownbutler 31 20% Erne 330 14%
Belleek and Boa 37 20% Drumnakilly 355 14%
Lisanelly_2 61 19% Gortrush_2 367 14%
Donagh 69 19% Dergmoney 373 14%
Irvinestown 74 18% Trillick 369 14%
Fintona 99 18% Clanabogan 392 13%
Portora 114 17% Sixmilecross 387 13%
Florence Court and Kinawley 125 17% Ballinamallard 408 13%
Belcoo and Garrison 128 17% Rossorry 410 13%
Kesh Ederney and Lack_1 134 17% Beragh 423 13%
Tempo 153 16% Camowen 426 13%
Derrylin 159 16% Gortin 466 13%
Lisnaskea 166 16% Killyclogher_2 478 12%
Owenkillew 179 16% Castlecoole_1 496 12%
Maguiresbridge 210 16% Coolnagard 524 12%
Kesh Ederney and Lack_2 213 16% Fairy Water 525 12%
Castlecoole_2 224 15% Lisbellaw 560 12%
Boho Cleenish and Letterbreen 230 15% Drumragh 568 12%
Lisnarrick 239 15% Newtownsaville 569 11%
Killyclogher_1 247 15% Dromore 642 11%
Termon 253 15% Gortrush_1 705 10%
Brookeborough 262 15%
Education / Skills / Training
32% of FSME
students
13% Non-FSME
students
21% Boys
11% Girls
Highest Qualification below 5 GCSEs A*-C
Education / Skills / Training - within Fermanagh and Omagh
Education, Skills
and Training
Education, Skills
and Training
Lisanelly_2 140 Beragh 478
Devenish 153 Derrylin 487
Lisanelly_1 187 Rosslea 495
Gortrush_2 193 Drumquin 507
Castlecoole_1 202 Lisbellaw 526
Erne 205 Sixmilecross 533
Lisnaskea 229 Belcoo and Garrison 540
Strule 231 Drumragh 542
Irvinestown 316 Derrygonnelly 546
Kesh Ederney and Lack_1 331 Dergmoney 564
Rossorry 336 Brookeborough 565
Kesh Ederney and Lack_2 342 Lisnarrick 572
Newtownbutler 363 Florence Court and Kinawley 583
Killyclogher_1 365 Dromore 595
Maguiresbridge 373 Donagh 605
Portora 407 Newtownsaville 607
Boho Cleenish and Letterbreen 415 Termon 632
Tempo 431 Drumnakilly 639
Gortrush_1 432 Owenkillew 665
Fintona 436 Castlecoole_2 669
Killyclogher_2 442 Clanabogan 680
Belleek and Boa 450 Gortin 702
Ballinamallard 454 Trillick 737
Camowen 457 Fairy Water 802
Coolnagard 468
Special Educational Needs in schools
% %
Devenish 30% Boho Cleenish and Letterbreen 11%
Lisanelly_1 29% Derrygonnelly 11%
Gortrush_2 18% Lisnarrick 11%
Belcoo and Garrison 17% Ballinamallard 11%
Florence Court and Kinawley 17% Donagh 10%
Erne 15% Dromore 9%
Castlecoole_1 15% Beragh 9%
Rossorry 15% Clanabogan 9%
Portora 15% Coolnagard 9%
Newtownbutler 14% Camowen 9%
Derrylin 14% Drumquin 9%
Strule 14% Kesh Ederney and Lack_2 9%
Brookeborough 14% Dergmoney 8%
Lisnaskea 14% Drumragh 8%
Maguiresbridge 13% Castlecoole_2 8%
Kesh Ederney and Lack_1 13% Fairy Water 8%
Gortrush_1 12% Owenkillew 7%
Killyclogher_1 12% Trillick 7%
Rosslea 12% Fintona 6%
Killyclogher_2 12% Drumnakilly 6%
Lisbellaw 12% Gortin 6%
Lisanelly_2 12% Newtownsaville 6%
Tempo 11% Sixmilecross 6%
Irvinestown 11% Termon 4%
Belleek and Boa 11%
% pupils attending special schools or who are attending post-
primary schools with SEN Stages 3-5
Devenish – 1st
Lisanelly_1 – 2nd
Issue not as
prevalent at primary
school level…why?
Health and Wellbeing
Gap in life expectancy:
2.7 years between most deprived areas and FO average
Health and Wellbeing - within Fermanagh and Omagh
Health & Disability
Domain
Health & Disability
Domain
Lisanelly_2 24 Beragh 399
Devenish 69 Sixmilecross 417
Lisanelly_1 84 Owenkillew 424
Gortrush_2 97 Newtownsaville 500
Strule 126 Gortin 512
Camowen 147 Castlecoole_2 518
Killyclogher_1 172 Tempo 532
Fintona 181 Ballinamallard 533
Erne 200 Clanabogan 534
Drumragh 201 Belleek and Boa 536
Irvinestown 209 Kesh Ederney and Lack_2 549
Dromore 224 Rosslea 582
Gortrush_1 226 Trillick 585
Killyclogher_2 231 Maguiresbridge 620
Lisnaskea 233 Lisbellaw 621
Castlecoole_1 251 Lisnarrick 631
Coolnagard 255 Derrygonnelly 639
Dergmoney 264 Donagh 649
Portora 295 Boho Cleenish and Letterbreen 655
Newtownbutler 304 Fairy Water 675
Drumnakilly 324 Florence Court and Kinawley 700
Termon 351 Brookeborough 705
Kesh Ederney and Lack_1 352 Belcoo and Garrison 710
Rossorry 374 Derrylin 807
Drumquin 375
Caring responsibilities
11% of people provide unpaid
care Census 2011
Scenario Childcare: £30 per
day
Minimum Wage: £50 per day
Lack of minimum needs
Choices and opportunities
JRF Report
Does money affect children’s outcomes?
YES!
Lower social, economic and health outcomes, simply due to money (controlling for other factors)
Longer term = more severe impact
3.4pp more likely to
drop out
5.3pp less likely to
graduate
3.7pp less likely to
get First or 2:I
Conclusion
• Poverty, in statistical terms, is an income based issue
• Raising income for those in poverty is a large, complex, long term task
• Efforts can be made at drivers (food poverty, fuel poverty etc) but results unlikely to show at indicator level
• Community Plan Action 4.8 aiming to take some of this forward, including understanding the stats (and disseminating information)
• NIMDM a very useful tool, but we need to get localised examples of good statistics and good programme level data (performance measure)
Appendix – Multiple Deprivation Measure
Multiple Deprivation Measure SOA 2017 SOA 2017
Devenish 44 Drumragh 323
Lisanelly_2 46 Castlecoole_1 357
Lisanelly_1 47 Derrylin 362
Newtownbutler 112 Brookeborough 366
Rosslea 114 Trillick 379
Fintona 138 Dromore 383
Irvinestown 143 Kesh Ederney and Lack_2 392
Belleek and Boa 151 Maguiresbridge 394
Strule 168 Drumnakilly 395
Lisnaskea 182 Boho Cleenish and Letterbreen 399
Gortrush_2 188 Rossorry 409
Kesh Ederney and Lack_1 211 Lisnarrick 413
Portora 214 Beragh 422
Erne 216 Derrygonnelly 436
Donagh 234 Coolnagard 438
Belcoo and Garrison 238 Killyclogher_2 445
Owenkillew 257 Newtownsaville 452
Killyclogher_1 264 Clanabogan 461
Florence Court and Kinawley 275 Castlecoole_2 466
Termon 280 Fairy Water 512
Sixmilecross 289 Ballinamallard 526
Tempo 309 Gortrush_1 529
Drumquin 311 Gortin 573
Camowen 312 Lisbellaw 622
Dergmoney 316
Multiple Deprivation – Domains / Outliers
Domain Avg Most Deprived
MDM 317 Devenish
Income 288 Rosslea
Employment 380 Lisanelly_1
Health & Disability 400 Lisanelly_2
Education, Skills, Training 462 Lisanelly_2
Access to Services 210 Belcoo & Garrison
Living Environment 433 Trillick
Crime and Disorder 516 Portora
• Trillick has a disproportionally poor living environment (88), driven by low housing quality
• U15s living in relative poverty: an issue in Belleek and Boa (28.3%), Lisnarrick (25.5%) and Camowen (25.5%)
• O65s living in relative poverty: Kesh, Ederney and Lack_1 (15.5%), Derrylin (13.2%) and Belleek and Boa (12%) are amongst 100 most deprived
Multiple Deprivation – Underlying Data
• Income Domain: Database for Income Modelling and Estimation (DIME), providing data on the % of the population living in households whose equivalised income is below 60% of the NI median (relative poverty), also broken down for those aged 15 and under and those aged 65 and over
• Rosslea (22.1%) • Lisanelly_1 (21.3%) • Devenish (20.6%)
• Access to Services: Public Transport travel time, providing a ranking (not source data) on the travel time from postcodes to a range of key services
• Belcoo and Garrison, 6th • Sixmilecross, 12th • Brookeborough, 14th
• Access to Services: Proportion of properties with broadband speeds below 10mbs • Clanabogan, 3rd • Fairy Water, 5th • Dromore, 6th
Priscilla Magee
Kindly Gifted By Professor Greta Defeyter
Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor
(Strategic Planning and Engagement)
Faculty of Health and Life Sciences
Northumbria University
Newcastle upon Tyne
Over half a million children in UK (2012) were living in
households that could not afford to feed them consistently
More than 93% adults in these
households reported skipping meals
(Poverty & Social Exclusion, UK,
2013)
There has been a 54% increase in
families accessing Food Banks
between 2012-2014
Ashton & Lang (2014) estimated that
food prices have risen by 12% and
wages fallen by 7.6% since 2007
Coe (2014) report increase in fat, salt
and sugar consumption in families
food buying habits
How Do We Break This Trend?
What Is Poverty?
Individuals, families and groups in the
population can be said to be in poverty when
they lack resources to obtain the type of diet,
participate in the activities and have the
living conditions and amenities which are
customary, or at least widely encouraged
and approved, in the societies in which they
belong(Townsend, 1979).
Causes of Poverty
• Worklessness…personal and structural
• Low Pay/No Pay (zero hour contracts)
• In 2009/10 58% families below the Poverty line contained at least one working member
• Inadequate Benefits (JSA…only 65% money required to live above the poverty line)
• Benefit Sanctions
Child Poverty Myths
• Drugs and alcohol dependency (6.6%)
• Family Breakdown (63% children in poverty lived in two parent households)
• Benefit Dependency (67% Jobseekers Allowance find work within 6 months)
1.G Hay and L Bauld, Population Estimates of Problematic Drug Users in England Who Access DWP Benefits: A Feasibility Study, DWP Working Paper No 46 2008
2.See ONS website for up to date claimant count figures
3.DWP, Beliefs About Work: An Attitudinal Segmentation of Out-of-work People in Great Britain, Research Report 1, DWP Customer Insight Team 2011
Child Poverty in UK
• 3.7Millon children living in poverty in UK (costing £29 billon per annum)
• Cost of child care from 2008 to 2014 rose 42%
• Tax credits slashed
• Rise in child poverty within working families
Child Poverty: Human Capital
• Education: Children entitled to free school meals have a 3 terms lag behind affluent peers in terms of educational attainment but by age 14 this gap grows to over five terms (DfE)
• Health: low birthweight; premature death, Type II Diabetes, dental carries (Hirsch, 2013)
• Housing (x2): Poor Housing, multiple occupancy
• Fuel Poverty (Hills, 2011)
Challenges for Families in Holidays
Free School Meals unavailable
(1.7 million in UK)
Pressure on household budget
Benefit delays ,sanctions
Safeguarding risk elevated
Access /availability to food
Social contact diminished
Family Stress
(Extra £30 -£40 per week to be found for each child at home)
(Children’s Society Fair and Square)
Research into Summer Learning Loss (Shinwell &
Defeyter, 2017)
Prior research in USA by Cooper (1987) who broadly
suggest that children lose an average of one month’s of
instruction over the summer
Aim - Investigation of the phenomenon of “Summer
Learning Loss”
Study Design1 x 3 mixed factorial design
Time -Three levels: Time 1-end of summer term; T2 –
start of autumn term & T3 -7 weeks later
Dependent Measures Scores in WRAT 4 literacy test
(Reading and Spelling)
Conclusion
• Need for holiday food provision
• Provision for ethnic populations
& special needs requires careful
consideration
• Widespread provision but piecemeal &
unregulated
• Potential to help combat obesity
• Evidence of Summer Learning Loss (spelling, but trend for
gain in reading)
• Food and Physical Activity