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Safeguarding and Support Services

Birmingham Children, Young People and Families Directorate

Remodelling of Family Support and Safeguarding April 2013 1



Birmingham’s vision for our children and young people

“Every child in every part of the City should achieve their potential. We will provide early help and support to those children and families who need it and, working together, will ensure that every child has the belief, aspiration and support to be their best.”



Children’s Plan Priorities • Prevention

• Integration

• Aspiration

• Safeguarding

• Participation

• Excellence through partnership



Strategic Intent

Better prevention (public health) services

Increased early support for families

Fewer children in care (1500)



Lord Laming 2003‘it is not possible to separate the protection of children from wider support to families. Indeed, often the best protection for a child is achieved by the timely intervention of family support services’.

further highlighted by Professor Munro, 2011.

‘the provision of early help is vital to keeping children safe’.



Early Help Pathway: Principles

• Its never too early• Do the basics well • ‘begin at the end’• ‘no wrong door’• Common Assessment• Evidenced based

practice• Clear roles and

responsibilities

• Invest in pre-natal, early years and parenting

• ‘Think Family’• Trust professional

judgement and collaborate

• Needs led (data)• Invest in workforce

learning and development• Long term approach


Early Help Pathway: Priorities

1. Commitment to early help 2. Improve coordination and reach3. Improve availability of information4. Invest in our workforce5. Embed a common language6. Coherent set of procedures7. Review the risk management guidance 8. Develop and integrate targeted services9. Embed a Common Assessment


Vision: Safeguarding and Support service

‘through integration we will provide a comprehensive and seamless offer of ‘early help’ through to targeted and specialist services; with the intention of reducing the incidence of significant harm and unnecessary escalation of children and young peoples needs’.

right support from the ‘right service, right time’.



Today Transformation/Change Future

Silo working- internally and across partnerships

Multitude of transfer/referral points

Inconsistent service Provision

Process &Performance

ICT

Accommodation

Organisation

People.Teams &Culture

Finance &Benefits

TransformationTeam &

Communications

Collaborative and integrated working

More consistent and seamless journey for children and their families

Consistent, needs led and high quality of service

Transformation Journey

VISION


Principles• Needs led approach

• Change the language, services to children not process (e.g threshold, needs a CAF, IA, s47)

• No wrong door

• Acute and complex not only Social Care response

• Encourage a conversation that helps find a solution rather than a stand off

• Avoids reframing of a concern to a child protection matter




‘There is a vital role for professionals working in universal services – health, education, police and early years – to identify the early signs of abuse and neglect and to work together to deliver coordinated services to children and families.’

1. Identify and intervene with children and families which may require help from more than one agency

2. Support integrated working and share relevant information

3. Co-ordinate and deliver a multi-agency service response that is evidenced based which is responsive to the needs of children and their families and informed by a common assessment

Working Together – Consultation Document 2012

Early Intervention


Right Services

Right Time

MeetingChildren’s

Needs

• Focused on NEED• Child at the Centre• Support offered to the family• Birmingham’s model • All agencies use same indicators


Achieving the Vision - proposed new model of service


Safeguarding & Support Teams

Integrated CIC teams

CIAS

Child & The Family

Locality Area Safeguarding and Support Service


Proposed locations – Hub Children’s Centres

East• Oaklands Park• Kitts Green*• Dyson Gardens• Fox Hollies/Golden Hillock*• Park Road*

South• Albert Bradbeer (Merrishaw)• Reameadow• Chinnbrook• Doddington*

West & Central• The Willows• Birchfield• St Thomas*

North• Circle• Featherstone*



Integrating partners • Responsive to local needs

• Potential to improve co-location and integration in Children Centre areas and include Health Visiting Service, Community Midwifery, Family Nurse Partnership and Sexual Health etc.

Key Virtual Partners• Adult and Community Services; Youth and

Connexion Services, Housing • Schools

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Benefits of the proposal • Reduction in the multitude of transfer/referral points • More consistent and seamless journey for children and their

families• More resources devoted to the needs of children and families• Emphasis on front line practice improvement• Effective integration, economies of scale and considerable

more scope for flexibility• Strengthened management oversight and opportunities to

develop and retain excellent practitioners• Early Help and access to Social Care expertise, Evidenced

based practice and Team around the child; good partnership working

• Think family / troubled family approaches• Consistent application of the risk management principles

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Benefits of proposed model for partners

• Better and more effective information sharing across partnerships

• Reduced duplication of effort• Better coordination and use of resources

• Potential for knowledge and skills transfer through co location and strengthened partnership arrangements

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Benefits for children and their families

• Fewer ‘hand offs’ for children and seamless journey for the child

• Access to the right help from the right service and the right time

• Consistent, high quality, needs led service provision


Any Questions?

Feedback can be submitted online via: http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/supporthubs

For any further information contact: [email protected]