team around the child (tac), caf and locality working professional reference group

Team Around the Child (TAC), CAF Team Around the Child (TAC), CAF and Locality Working and Locality Working

Professional Reference GroupProfessional Reference Group0909thth January 2008 January 2008

Team Around the Child: Shaping the future of Children & Young People

WelcomeWelcome

Purpose of presentation:

• To ensure we have a common understanding of the Team around the Child

• An opportunity to look at how the model will work operationally

• An opportunity to build relationships for joint working

Sandra MorrisonSandra Morrison

Programme Director, Change Management Programme Director, Change Management Lambeth CYPSLambeth CYPS

Vision:Vision:

““We will enable children and young people to be happy, We will enable children and young people to be happy, healthy and safe to achieve their full potential. We will healthy and safe to achieve their full potential. We will achieve this by:achieve this by:•Developing integrated services that are seamless, Developing integrated services that are seamless, efficient and improve outcomes for children and young efficient and improve outcomes for children and young peoplepeople•Ensuring effective and efficient partnership working to Ensuring effective and efficient partnership working to safeguard and promote welfare of children and young safeguard and promote welfare of children and young peoplepeople•Increasing early identification of need and intervention Increasing early identification of need and intervention thus preventing a need in the futurethus preventing a need in the future•Seeking to engage children, young people and their Seeking to engage children, young people and their families, ensuring we reach those from all communities”families, ensuring we reach those from all communities”


Context

TAC is the approach we are using to establish integrated Service delivery for Children and Young People in Lambeth•Meet statutory requirements Children Act 2004•Integrate service delivery•Support early intervention

Children Act: Statutory Requirements by end of 2008Children Act: Statutory Requirements by end of 2008

Social ServicesSocial

Services

Education

Education

HealthHealthHousing,

ConnexionsHousing,

Connexions

ProbationProbation

PolicePolice

Youth Offending

Team

Youth Offending

Team

All Local Authorities are required to:

• Children’s Trust arrangements in place by march 2008

• Appointed a Director of Children’s Services (2005)

• Designated a Lead Member for Children’s Services (2005)

• Children & Young People’s Plan (2006

• Establish a Local Safeguarding Children’s

Board (2005

One Child - Many One Child - Many Agencies - Joint Working - Agencies - Joint Working - Seamless InterventionSeamless Intervention


Meeting the requirements of the Children’s AgendaMeeting the requirements of the Children’s Agenda

Sharing of concerns

Performance management information

Common assessment framework

Multi-agency case work

Integrated Children’s System (ICS)

Fewer, inter-operable, systems

Joint commissioning

Federated solutions

Workforce development

Children’s centres/extended schools

Organisational re-design & co-

locationRegional hubs

Duties to co-operate and safeguard

Universal child index

Process change / better practice


Resources are currently mainly allocated to the universal and specialist services with few allocated to preventative and targeted services

Targeting Resources & Commissioning ServicesTargeting Resources & Commissioning Services

Challenge is how to refocus resources on prevention and early Intervention


1

Allchildren Children withadditional needs

Vulnerable children

UniversalServices

Preventative/TargetedServices

SpecialistServices 1


Vulnerable children

UniversalServices


SpecialistServices 1


Vulnerable children

UniversalServices


SpecialistServices

What is Team Around the ChildWhat is Team Around the Child


An approach first developed to provide integrated services to children under 5 with complex disabilities – generally through child development services – bringing together health visitors, paediatricians, social workers, SEN team administrators, physiotherapists and occupational therapists, psychologists, portage workers and speech and language therapists to meet the individual needs of children/young people and their family.

Implementation ApproachImplementation Approach


• Develop the Team Around the Child (TAC) as one of the approaches to be used to meet the statutory Every Child Matters requirements to integrate systems, processes and service delivery to improve outcomes for children and young people

• The integration of service delivery to be based on the needs, localities and communities governed by the three planning areas

Implementation of the TACImplementation of the TAC


• Bringing together of staff across the partnership• Aligned into three teams based on the PCT localities• Partnership working to promote early intervention• Resources deployed by on Area TAC Manager• CAF used to identify needs

Team Around the Child ApproachTeam Around the Child Approach


Universal resources

Swift and Easy Referrals

Specialist Services

Reduction in Referrals

AMTeam Around the Child

CWAN

TAC Area ManagersTAC Area ManagersNandita Sirker – North Locality – 020 7926-5710

Heather Swaby – South East Locality – 020 7926 5723

Geraldine Abrahams – South West Locality – 020 7926 5724

Key Objectives:

- CAF Assessments

- CAF Return Form

- TAC Friendly Sites

- Partnership Working

- Mapping exercises

Family Support Family Support Worker ServiceWorker Service• Funded Direct School

Grant

• Recruitment Complete

• Family Support Workers in place by January 2008

ContactPointContactPoint

• National roll out – October 2008

• New Legislation – August 2007• Enhanced CRB Checks

• Disclosure of previous convictions

• Local Systems• ContactPoint Officer

• Criteria for access to information

CAFCAF

• 200 Staff Trained• Partnership objective

400 CAFs by 30th November 07

• Training dates• Informing

commissioning, data• Early intervention• Referral to other

services

CAF

FORM

SSD

Education

Health

Vol

TAC Friendly SitesTAC Friendly SitesCriteria:• Hot desk space• Meeting facilities for

- 121s

- CAF Meetings

- Lead Professional Meetings

• Ideally with broad facilities to enable VPN access to systems

• Target to have 6 in each locality by December 2007

Information Information SharingSharing

• Small team looking at the cultural change required in agencies in relation to: – – information sharing– Attitudes– Barriers

• Provide a solution and recommendations to Executive Group by January 2008

How will TAC impact on outcomes?How will TAC impact on outcomes?

Framework for Integrated/Common Assessments & Care pathways

• Reduced duplication of Assessments• Parent tell their story only once

Lead ProfessionalKeyworker , Team around the Child systems

•Services are co-ordinated more clearly with grater accountability.•Parent have single point of contact

Joint Planning & Commissioning framework

•Services provided are matched to identified need

•Duplicated services eliminated

Disabled Children’s Register/Child Index

•Better information to parents on services available

•Disabled Children do not fall between gaps in services.

Multi agency transition arrangements

Co-ordinated working delivers multi-agency transitions between services and child to adult services.

Management and Clinical Supervision structures

Management accountability for case delivery across all aspects of service.

Co – Location

Children and Parents can access all services at a single location

Integrated Case Management Systems E-CAF, ICS EDMSParents can access detailed information on their service delivery through any

professional

Benefits and Outcomes for Users and Parents


Thank you!Thank you!

www.lambeth.gov.uk/tac

http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/tac

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