Locality Early Intervention
The Halton Context
Veronica Wright
Divisional Manager Team Around the Family
Halton Borough Council
[email protected]
0151 511 6239
07767 671 947
All our work in Halton with children, young people
and families is set against the
Halton Levels of Need Framework
Locality Early Intervention
The Halton Context
Our Shared Vision
• That all children and families in Halton thrive and achieve, and
are kept safe
• That those children and families who need extra help and
support to thrive and achieve well are able to get that help
quickly and easily
• That all of us working with children and families work well
together to support families who need extra help
Locality Early Intervention
The Halton Context
Shared Principles
 Early identification of children and families who may need extra help and
support
 Robust, holistic, integrated multi-agency assessment of both individual
children’s and whole family needs and aspirations
 Co-ordinated, evidence based interventions leading to good outcomes for
children and families
 Children and families are supported at the lowest, safe level of needs, and
supported to build resilience and make full use of universal services
Locality Early Intervention
The Halton Context
• Early Help and Support established in Halton in April 2010.
• Key priority of both Halton Children’s Trust and Halton Safeguarding
Children Board.
• Staged multi-agency approach to development – Family Support teams,
Integrated Working Support Teams, Intensive Family Support teams,
Troubled Families work, Contact And Referral Team (CART), Working
Together meetings, “Think Family” Team Around the Family approach.
• Current phase - Locality early intervention teams established September
2014, Troubled Families work mainstreamed into locality teams, early
intervention workers in CART, one front door to services.
Locality Early Intervention
The Halton Context
• Early Help – universal, population level
support and services to help narrow the
gap.
• Early Intervention – targeted support to
identified children and/or families to meet
assessed needs
Locality Early Intervention
The Halton Context
Think Family approach:
• Assess the needs of all family members
• Understanding that parent’s needs impact on
children
• Contribution of all partner services is crucial
• Team Around the Family
• Coordination of support through CAF
Locality Early Intervention
The Halton Context
• Now on our next steps of journey to fully integrated, multi
agency teams and services
• Building on the robust partnerships and good multiagency work already established, and endorsed in the
recent Ofsted inspection
• As part of the current phase, reporting has moved to the
Health and Wellbeing Board, emphasising our Think
Family approach
Locality Early Intervention
The Halton Context
Good Practice already embedded:
 Levels of need well understood and used
appropriately
 QA of CAF systems
 Working Together meetings
 Weekly referral meetings – discussion and review
of decisions from CART to CSC and Early
Intervention
Locality Early Intervention
The Halton Context
• 3 Locality based early intervention teams
• Widnes team – Based in Kingsway Children’s Centre
– Principal Manager Janice Maddison
• Runcorn East Team - Halton Castle, Norton North, Norton
south, Windmill Hill, Beechwood and Daresbury – Based in
Glendale
- Principal Manager Alison Upham
• Runcorn West - Grange, Halton Brook, Heath, Mersey and
Halton Lea - Based in Grangeway Community Centre
- Principal Manager Nicola Scott
Locality Early Intervention
The Halton Context
Additional Responsibilities remaining within
the remit of Early Intervention:
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Disability Short Breaks service
Young Carers
Parenting support programmes
CAF coordination, training and support,
monitoring and quality assurance
Locality Early Intervention
The Halton Context
Opportunities for Transformation Pan Cheshire Transformation Challenge Award
• Establishing a multi-agency approach to tackling complex dependencies
across families and individuals in Cheshire and Warrington
• To improve outcomes for children, families and citizens and reduce costs
• Implementation approach is already agreed by all partners to maximise
buy-in and commitment to transformation around the needs of the
customer
Locality Early Intervention
The Halton Context
Opportunities for Transformation
Pan Cheshire Transformation Challenge Award
• Adults and children involved in crime or anti-social behaviour
• Children who have problems at school (e.g. regular absence,
permanent exclusion)
• Children who need help (i.e. Child In Need cases, level 3 or above)
• Adults out of work or at risk of financial exclusion (including
homelessness) and young people at risk of worklessness
• Individuals and Families affected by domestic violence and abuse
• Individuals with a range of (non-age related) health problems
(universal health services)
• Young people affected by homelessness/rough sleeping
Locality Early Intervention
The Halton Context
Opportunities for Transformation
Pan Cheshire Transformation Challenge Award
• £5m over 3 years to transform services and processes
including £1.6m to transform IT infrastructure
• Project underway now with the establishment of a
regional project team to drive the transformation
across the 4 Boroughs
Locality Early Intervention
The Halton Context
How locality early intervention works for
families:
2 case studies presented by early intervention
workers