Family Focus Plus

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Family Focus Plus

• Southwarks Troubled Families Programme

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What is Family Focus Plus?

• Family Focus Plus (FFP) is Southwarks Troubled
  Families programme
• Nationally agreed target of improving outcomes
  for 1085 families in Southwark by 2015
• aimed at families who are experiencing multiple
  difficulties
• Payment by Results model
• Core objectives
• reduce youth crime and anti-social behaviour
• reduce truancy and/or exclusion from school
• reduce the number of people not in work and
  claiming out-of-work benefits

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Who is it for?

• To be eligible families must meet at least two
  from A-C
• A. Children excluded (permanent or 3 fixed
  term), or not on a school roll, or school
  attendance less than 85, or, attends Pupil
  Referral Unit (PRU) or alternative provision or
  any other equivalent attendance concern
• B. Anti-social behaviour (ASB) by any member of
  the family, or offending by anyone under 18 in
  the family
• C. Adult(s) in the family receiving out of work
  benefits
• D. Any other high risk concerns, such as social
  care, domestic violence, housing, health issues
  etc

If a family meets the FFP criteria, a tracking
tool must be completed so that they can be
attached to FFP.
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Eligible family examples

• Domestic violence between son and mum
• Dad receiving out of work benefit
• Complaints by neighbours re ASB
• One child less than 85 attendance

• 6 year old daughter attendance 90 however
  professional concern due to 10 unauthorised
  absence
• 14 year old excluded due to anti social
  behaviour issues
• Currently receiving support from school SENCO

• No adult in the family working
• Children attendance between 50 and 65
• Father in prison for crime 11 months ago
• Young son engaged in criminal gang activity
• Case open to childrens social care
• Young person receiving support from gangs
  intervention

• Mum receiving out of work benefit
• 5 year old daughter not on school role

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FFP in Southwark

• Aims to ensure a coordinated offer of support
  that is family-focussed and makes a difference to
  outcomes of families that meet the national
  criteria.
• Opportunity to think differently about how local
  system supports families with the most complex
  needs and ensure the outcomes of individual
  families improve from the point at which they
  first engage with local services.

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How are services involved?

• Professionals working with families are required
  to
• Attach eligible families they are working with
  to the Family Focus Plus programme
• Take on a lead professional role to support
  whole families towards target outcomes, where
  appropriate

• Professionals are supported by
• FFP Champions available for each service
• Southwarks Virtual Professional Network

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Why attach a family?

1. Attract as much funding to the borough as
   possible for services to TF
2. Get intelligence on other services involved
3. Use resources to best effect
4. Develop an evidence base of what works in
   supporting families with complex needs
5. Provide an opportunity to think and work
   differently with families

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Lead Professional Responsibilities

• FFP identifying/ tracking responsibilities
• Attach families that meet the TF criteria
  (where they have not already been attached)
• Report progress of families to the intelligence
  hub via the tracking tool
• Escalation of families that are not making
  sufficient progress towards expected outcomes to
  the identified FFP Champion within the service.
• Informing Intelligence Hub if no longer LP, so
  replacement LP can be identified/ allocated
• Gather and maintain evidence of achieving
  expected outcomes

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Lead Professional Responsibilities (contd)

• LP role responsibilities
• Working to improve outcomes for families,
  including
• Coordinate the professional network around
  families
• Hands on approach with support from others to
  achieve goals
• Ensure there is an
• up-to-date family assessment (where there is no
  statutory assessment a CAF should be used), where
  there is not, to undertake one
• up-to-date delivery plan and appropriate Team
  Around the Family (TAF) to support families
  achieve the required outcomes

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Family Focus Plus Virtual Professional Network
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Specialist Family Focus Team Structure Chart
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VCS Commissioned Services
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What do I do now?

• Identification and attaching families
• If you are working with a family who meet the FFP
  eligibility criteria ? complete a FFP Tracking
  Tool and submit to ffpinfohub_at_southwark.gov.uk
• The intelligence hub will validate the
  eligibility and formally attach the family to
  the program
• Information should be provided on the whole
  family
• Notification should be made where additional
  support is required

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Need more details?

• See Guidance for Operational Services for further
  information
• For any support please email ffpinfohub_at_southwark
  .gov.uk
• Any questions?