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SP1: Funding future homes – opportunities and risks

Panel: Mervyn Jones

Chief Executive Officer, Yorkshire Housing

Jack Dromey MP

Shadow Housing Minister, Labour Party

Cllr Andrew Johnson

Cabinet Member for Housing

Chair: Peter Williams

Director, Cambridge Centre for Housing

and Planning Research

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SP4: Troubled families – effective interventions and the

role of housing associations

Speakers: Nick Parker

Executive Manager, Vestia Community Trust

Ian Munro

Group Chief Executive, New Charter Housing Trust

Chair: Sinéad Butters

Chief Executive, Aspire

Worcestershire Family Intervention Project

Happy family; Kim Robertson

Nick Parker

Build Partnership

• History of WFIP

Troubled Families

• Longer term

• Concerns

End on a high

• Neighbourhood Management

Pathfinder

• Same families (& their families) known

to Police, School, Health, Social

Services & Housing

• Dundee Family Intervention Project

• Right approach – build case pilot

• Supporting People, Children’s Services,

Police and Wyre Forest Community

Housing

Patricia asked for help, but found it very frustrating because she has to repeat her story several times to lots of different agencies. Once she has told them all about her situation, they usually just give her some information and tell her to contact somebody else, and then she has to tell the story all over again.

2007

• Wyre Forest pilot to Worcestershire (7 to 55 cases)

• Partnership includes:

• Five RSL's (unlock additional match funding)

• Police (gravitas & support to breaking a cycle of

sanctions)

• Children's Services (support a different approach)

• Total Place emphasised that the Family Intervention

Project was the right approach

• WFIP gained attention of Government & additional grant

2008 - 2009

• Coalition Government - everything

changed

• Public Spending Review - many

FIP’s cut

• WFIP built on shared funding &

strong partnership, kept us going

• Everything had to be reinvented

(Community Budgets & Troubled

Families)

2010 - 2011

Happy families

• Additional Funding Troubled Families

• WFIP demonstrated relevance of:

• partnership working

• service re-design

• pooled budgets

• Worcestershire ‘Troubled Families’ more

than just a Local Authority intervention

• Possible outcomes:

• Bigger FIP

• Specialist Services

2012

• Move from project to service

• Need to re-invent again -

'system thinking‘

• More partners contributing to

core budget

• Understand 'bankable savings'

rather than 'costs avoided‘

• Social Finance & Payment by

Results

Longer term

• Increase commissioning that

cements service silos

• Families last longer than four

year commissioning cycles

• Impact of Social Policy;

‘underserving & deserving poor’

• 120,000 families are being

replaced quickly

Concerns

Gin Lane

• History of Housing +

• We already help; many

'troubled families’ are our

tenants

• Trusted to do it & not just make

a profit

• Able to re-design services

• We make a difference

End on a high

Sally – working mum

Worcestershire Family Intervention Project • Festival Housing

• Nexus Housing

• Rooftop Housing Group

• West Mercia Police

• Worcester Community Housing

• Worcestershire County Council

(Children’s Services & Supporting People)

• Wyre Forest Community Housing

• Vestia Community Trust

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Annual Conference and Social

Housing Exhibition

17 – 19 September 2012

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