The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

6th of September 2011Kensington Town Hall

Letitia Bradley and Jan Keen

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COMMUNITY BUDGET

BACKGROUND

Around £8 billion a year is spent on around

120,000 families that have multiple problems, with funding only getting to local areas via hundreds of separate schemes and agencies.

Despite this investment, the complex needs of these families’ remain.

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BACKGROUND

Two big barriers to local service innovation and reduced service costs…

1. Funding silos2. Performance management / targets

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Premise

Services need to join up and intervene earlier so that families are given the chance to turn their lives around.

This integrated, early intervention and High Need approach will also drive down costs.

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COST saved on multi-problem families

£40,341

£27,968

£7,795

£5,330

£3,731£1,367

£1,240£695

Saving estimates based on 40 families from 19 LAs

Local AuthoritySocietyPoliceNHSCriminal JusticeSocial ServicesYOTOther

Estimates are made using the Family Cost Calculator devised by the Gov – the calculation results in £81,624 average savings per family per year based on intensive Family Intervention multi-agency packages of support.

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‘…turn around every troubled family in the country’

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Proposal

16 areas (covering 28 councils and their partners) given direct control over local spending in their area free of centrally imposed conditions. Funding available from April 2011.

Various Whitehall funding strands are pooled within a single ‘local bank account’ for tackling social problems around families with complex needs

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• Blackburn with Darwen• Blackpool• Bradford• Essex• Greater Manchester (a group of 10 councils)• Hull• Kent• Leicestershire• Lincolnshire• London Borough of Barnet• London Borough of Croydon• London Borough of Islington• London Borough of Lewisham• The London Boroughs of Westminster, Hammersmith and

Fulham, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and Wandsworth

• Swindon

COMMUNITY BUDGET AREAS

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Local Need

Local response

Improve outcomes

£ / Resource

Central Gov. Depts. e.g. DWP, MOJ, DoE

Save money

Council / Local Partners e.g. Police / PCT

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The Response…

Westminster: ‘Wider’ Family Recovery Programme (FRP)

H&F : Family Support Programme

RBKC: (build upon Family Intervention Project / Adolescent Service / others)

Wandsworth: FRP programme

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Universal Needs – Universal Services

Low to Vulnerable Families with Additional Needs – CA(F)

High or Complex Family Needs - Children in Need

Complex or Acute Family Needs – Child Protection

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RBKC’s Project

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HousingEducation and training

Physical and mental healthSubstance misuse

Benefits and budgeting

Employability

Workless families Family Intervention Offender Management

Re-offending and ASB

Current Progress

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• 3 Exemplar funding bids - Working Families Everywhere - Multi-systemic Therapy (MST) - Prisoners’ and their Families Young men, aged 18-24 in both Prisons

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What do we offer?Help Families to form positive relationships and stay togetherHelp to build resilience and encourage families to respond differentlyEnable young people to discover and set positive goalsEncourage and support engagement with other services’Personalised, targeted support both individually and as a family

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At point of referral; 29 active requests for young people to be received into care

Only 5 became Looked After Children; and 2 were supported to return home

3 moved into semi-independent hostels and supported by team

2 became remanded in Youth Offending Institutions 1 sectioned under Mental Health Act

Outcomes

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Local Analysis

Children subject to a CP PlanFamily Services

Adolescent Service

YOT Complex & Re-offenders

Employment Projects

Adult Services

Police

Substance Misuse

Education & Youth ServicesPositive Engagement Programme

High Needs Children In Need

Education Welfare/Special Educational Needs & Pastoral Support Services

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Worklessness Numbers of families with multiple problems supported into sustainable employment via Work Programme

providers.

Criminal justice TBC reduction in court cases and the associated legal aid costs TBC reduction in community orders and Suspended Sentence Orders TBC reduction in custodial sentences for less than 12 months

Youth Justice tbc

DfE Exemplars tbc

National performance targets- High Level

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Health

TBC% increase in number of families registered with a GP TBC% increase in immunisations for under 5’s Reduction in obesity Identification and addressing speech and language difficulties in under 5s

Anti-social behavior TBC% reduction in ASB and nuisance TBC% reduction in the numbers of people incurring ASBO costs

Offending TBC% reduction in offences committed by cohort TBC% reduction in arrests

Education TBC% reduction in cohort member no longer NEET TBC% improvement in school attendance

Housing TBC% reduction in families that have rent arrears TBC% reduction in families at risk of eviction

Child protection TBC% avoided going into care

Local performance targets