Child Poverty Innovation Pilot London Child Poverty Network

1. Child Poverty Innovation PilotLondon Child Poverty Network 24 November 2009 Marnie Caton, Head of Information & Performance Children’s Services

2. Child Poverty in Islington • Index of Child Well-being 2009 – Islington 4th worst local authority after Liverpool, Tower Hamlets and Manchester • Measured as number of children in households on out of work benefits, Islington remains second worst in UK • Number of children living below 60% median income cannot be measured at LA level – however, local data shows over 92% of children in households claiming HB/CTB are in poverty

3. More about children and families • On average a baby is born every 3 hours to an Islington mum • There are 40,000 children in Islington • There are 23,000 families with children • 1 in 10 children live in overcrowded conditions • 43% children live in a lone parent household. • The most popular boys and girls names for children born in 2008 were Thomas and Chloe • 40% of Islington’s secondary age children go outside of the borough to school • Several families in Islington have 8 or more children • 1 in every 2 children live in a home owned by the local authority • 45% + children are living in workless households

4. CP Innovation Pilot – what are we doing? Integrated working • Working through universal settings where families are – Children’s Centres first • Integrated team of specialists: Benefits; childcare; trainers; employment; JCP; information/libraries • Strengthened the economic domain in CAF and IW training Mainstreaming • Make progress on child poverty sustainable within mainstream services – it’s everybody’s business Use of data • Bringing Housing Benefit/Council tax data together with child dataset • Intelligent use of data through universal settings and team

5. Integrated working (Children’s Services) integrated working approach: • Think family! • Improved outcomes for children • Early intervention • common assessment – needs, actions, outcomes • Share information • Multi-agency teams in universal and specialist settings Why not apply approach more broadly?

6. Mainstreaming • To impact child poverty after the pilot we need to embed the way we do interventions in frontline services across agencies: • Housing • Health • Adult social care • Children’s Services • Regeneration • Employers / Business • VCF Sector • To provide personalised services through which “someone with a disability, low skills and child care needs can easily access support to help them manage their health condition at work, in training or childcare” – National Audit Office

7. Use of data • Started with concept of ‘whole child’ – 2006 • Now concept of ‘whole family’ • Built from a number of sources (10) • Sharing agreements required • Use for a large number of projects and ongoing needs assessment & commissioning work • CPIP is one of these projects

9. Our approach to using data • Developed now to hold data at household level • Use Unique Property Ref (LLPG) to link records • Plan to add more data from health • Automating into a data warehouse

10. CPIP – how we use the data • Regular extract of HB and CTB data (monthly) • Match to child data set • Create our large client base list - focus on families with 0-4 year olds and lone parents of 0-7 year olds • Some 3,560 households, with 9,650 children • Mapped to Children’s Centre catchment areas • Prioritised some centres – need and readiness

11. Criteria for rollout of pilot • Shortlist 7 children’s centres and surrounding areas • Capacity of Children’s Centre • Number of target individuals in area • Potential partners already engaged • Current employment projects active

12. Children’s Centre summary data

13. How we use this data • CCs action plan to address their reach • Track how they are doing • Work with Islington Working for Parents team (who also have data) to decide how to work with specific groups in detail • Data forms basis of case management system used by IWfP and other IW practitioners and income maximisation team

14. Frontline service contacts (Children’s Centres – housing providers – Adult Social Care etc.) Pro-active outreach (PST) Intelligence from HB/CTB (data protocol team) Screening assessment and triage Level 1 Advice Level 2 Advice & support (assistance with 1 or 2 functions) Level 3 Employability pathway Non-engagers Provision of existing and new information items Active referral to existing services Referral to PST six month employability support package TRACK – RCP db (Modified Regeneration tracking system) Monitor and confirm through HB/CTB (data protocol team) Schedule level 1, 2 & 3 participants and non-participants for follow up and progression (data protocol team) Evaluation

15. Monitoring & Evaluation • The regularly refreshed data-set will provide the background data for monitoring • Do not need to ask clients for their data several times • Aim to track through the RCP data base, but also through existing systems – e.g. children’s centres EYMIS

16. Indicators & measures for national evaluation

17. Indicators and measures

18. Outcomes Star • Used for the 6 month employability package • A way of tracking a parents’ journey • Easy to see progress • Easy to see improved progress on some ‘domains’ than others • Not too complex for client • Proven track record in other organisations (St. Mungo’s, Camden)

19. Completed Outcomes Star

20. Reporting • More complex potentially • From RCP about clients in the pathway • From Income maximisation / benefits systems for level 2 support • From EYMIS for CC interevention More work in progress!