• How helping families move towards employment is being located at the heart of family intervention approaches
• Recent commitments to ensure Jobcentre Plus and Local Authorities work together in a much more integrated and whole-family way.
IMPACT
• Troubled families …
• attract multitude of uncoordinated services – up to 20 different agencies involved with one family
• often have high impact on community
• often large families whose problems affect the life chances of their children
• drain public finances – and these are mostly reactive costs
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Business as usual for these families = a multitude of
uncoordinated services
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From2003
…to2012
Police/Community
Safety
A post-it = a contact or intervention
Health Social Care Housing CommunityOutreach
CAFCoordination
AttendanceService
HousingBenefitBarnardos
FamilyIntervention
Project
Note absence of employment related
support ????
A better way of doing things = Family Intervention
1. A dedicated worker dedicated to the family2. Who looks at what’s really happening for the family
as a whole3. And gives practical hands-on support4. With an assertive and challenging approach5. Backed by an agreed plan and common purpose
among the relevant services.
Turning a family around means:
Getting adults into workChildren at schoolCutting crime/ASBCutting costs, saving money
Employment at the heart of the programme
New delivery agreement with JCP
• Ensure that the delivery of welfare to work support is more effectively dovetailed with the support being offered within the Troubled Families Programme;
• Contribute (as appropriate) to family assessments and family plans in order to agree common employment and employability goals with the local authority for troubled family members;
• Adopt a coordinated local approach to working with each troubled family;
• Track the progress of troubled families on the DWP Labour Market System and share this information with the local authority on a regular basis.