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7 September 2012

FAMILY SUPPORT HUBS Where are we now?. Glenavon Hotel Cookstown. 7 September 2012. Gerry Conway Commissioning Lead (Early Years & Family Support) Health & Social Care Board. Purpose of the Workshop. To enable Hub participants to feel part of a wider purpose

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7 September 2012

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  1. FAMILY SUPPORT HUBS Where are we now? Glenavon Hotel Cookstown 7 September 2012

  2. Gerry Conway Commissioning Lead (Early Years & Family Support) Health & Social Care Board

  3. Purpose of the Workshop • To enable Hub participants to feel part of a wider purpose • To allow Hub participants to learn about what is happening elsewhere • To establish a process for moving forward together.

  4. PROGRAMME

  5. Where do Family Support Hubs Fit into the New Arrangements for Integrated Planning Fionnuala McAndrew Director of Social Care and Children

  6. Purpose of Presentation • Where Hubs fit in - Strategic and Policy Context • Expectations of CYPSP of Hubs • Challenges for Future

  7. Policy Context • 10 year Strategy for Children and Young People 2006-2016 • Programme for Government 2011-2015 • Families Matter • NI Children and Young People’s Plan 2011-2014 • Transforming Your Care

  8. Key Policy Messages • Reorientation of the system towards early intervention • Focus on collaborative working across departments/sectors/organisations • Making best use of available resources • Focus on outcome and the ability to demonstrate clearly the benefits of interventions

  9. Urban Regeneration and Community Development Deprivation Policy Framework (DSD 2012) Consultation. Policy Objective 1 – To Tackle Area-based deprivation • “Collaborative working with other departments and agencies in order to improve the life chances of people in disadvantaged areas, in particular focusing on early interventions targeting children and young people;   • Supporting projects and programmes that address the specific needs of socially excluded people and groups, and enabling public services to operate in more targeted and locally-engaged ways; • Preparing and collating research and statistics on deprivation in order to help set local priorities and plan effective collective action”

  10. Children and Young Peoples Strategic Partnership The CYPSP is a cross sectoral, strategic partnership, consisting of the leadership of all key agencies who have responsibility for improving outcomes for all children and young people in Northern Ireland.

  11. Key Priorities of CYPSP • Early intervention • Communicating with Government • Integration of planning • Optimisation of resources

  12. Structures and Links

  13. Hubs and Locality Planning • Hubs are about meeting the needs of individual children, young people and families • Locality Planning is about planning for the needs of populations

  14. Where do Hubs fit in to CYPSP Priorities? - Early Intervention Hubs represent a significant part of the working out of the CYPSP commitment to early intervention. Key part of the delivery system for early intervention across the age range. Definition of early intervention adopted by CYPSP “intervening early and as soon as possible to tackle problems emerging for children, young people and their families or with a population most at risk of developing problems. Early intervention may occur at any point in a child or young persons life” (C4EO 2010)

  15. Where do Hubs fit in to CYPSP Priorities? - Integrated Delivery/Outcome • Hubs can facilitate Improved collaboration between organisations/sectors by bringing together all organisations involved in early intervention • Hubs can improve outcomes for children and young people by facilitating access to appropriate early intervention services

  16. Where do Hubs fit in to CYPSP Priorities? – Optimisation of Resources • By enabling organisations to work closer together Hubs can make more efficient use of resources by: • Identifying duplication in service delivery • Advising on allocating resources more effectively to address need

  17. Expectations of CYPSP NI Children and Young Peoples Plan 2011-2014 • Development of network of Hubs • Introduce quality standards • Ensure that the use of Hubs becomes an integral part of the total system to support children and families across agencies • To contribute to the understanding of the impact of early intervention initiatives on the whole system • Through the CYPSP Research process, we will develop the evidence base for this approach and a model for evaluating the contribution of hubs to the effectiveness of early intervention.

  18. Hubs and Whole System Change -Changing the Focus of our Work • Hubs are part of a wider system change • Reorientation of system to ‘front end’ • Closer integration of Community Voluntary Sector and statutory services across all levels of intervention • Early intervention as part of the whole system

  19. Hubs and Whole System Change -Changing the way we work Separate Planning/Separate funding Joint Planning/Separate Funding Joint Planning/Joint Funding Traditional Model Working better together Integrated working

  20. The Challenges in Developing Hubs • The development of Hubs is at a very early stage and there is no fixed model of what this should look like. We do not have all the answers. You will need to use your creativity. • There is a need at the local level for all sectors/organisations to work together to make the Hub idea work in your area. • As we go forward we need to decide what aspects of the model need to be standardised across all Hubs. • Important to share the learning as the process develops – to influence others and be prepared to be influenced.

  21. The Challenges for Organisations Involved in Hubs • Committing time to making this work • Developing the level of trust between organisations that will be necessary for this degree of collaboration to work • Developing a culture that prioritises outcomes and not what’s best for your individual organisation

  22. The Challenges in Aligning Early Intervention with Whole System • Early intervention is not the whole answer -challenge of linking early intervention effectively to rest of system • Getting Thresholds right between early intervention (level 2) and statutory social work (level 3). Interface with safeguarding and Gateway is critical to making this work

  23. The Challenge of Building Links with Others • Influencing other organisations/Departments to endorse and commit resources to the development of Hubs. • Reaching out to other providers of family support to be part of the Hub.

  24. Challenges in Demonstrating that this Approach Works Demonstrating that: • Hubs work in facilitating the delivery of early intervention services. Need for data to show this is working • This is critical in building a wide support base for early intervention generally and support for Hubs in particular.

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