NORTH SOMERSET TURNING THE TIDE SOCIAL IMPACT BOND
SOCIAL CATEGORY: Children & Family
SERVICE TYPE: Family Therapy, Family Preservation
SUMMARY: Working with families to help children stay at home safely and/or reuniting children with their families as soon as possible.
LOCATION: North Somerset, England, United Kingdom (UK), Europe
POLICY AREA: Children on the Edge of Care, Children’s Social Care
TYPE: Social Impact Bond, Intermediated
AMOUNT: £1,400,000 (£350,000 per year)
DURATION: 48 months (4 years)
SIZE OF COHORT: 240
ISSUED: 2017
CURRENT STATUS: Implementation (Active)
PROVIDER: Core Assets Children’s Services
INVESTOR(S): Bridges Fund Management, Big Lottery Commissioning, Better Outcomes Fund
COMMISSIONER(S): North Somerset Council (Local Government)
ADVISOR/INTERMEDIARY:
EVALUATOR: Ecorys UK Ltd.
TARGET POPULATION:
– Children aged 10 to 17 likely to enter care imminently
ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA:
– The North Somerset Turning the Tide Service is a family preservation service supporting children and young people aged 10-17 who are currently either CLA under section 20 or at risk of becoming CLA under section 20.
– Eligible children and young people will be identified by the Local Authority and partners.
– A screening and triage process is in place for all referrals in order to confirm the suitability of the service.
– Referral Required: Yes
– Referral Details: Referrals made by the allocated social worker or team leader
Source: North Somerset Desktop Flyer
DESCRIPTION:
– Core Assets Children’s Services have been commissioned to provide a family preservation service as part of the Turning the Tide Social Impact Bond. The family preservation model, Core Assets Safer Stronger Families (SSF), is a proven combination of evidenced-based interventions, Triple P® and Solution Focused Brief Therapy and is theoretically underpinned by Team Parenting®. It is a service that flexibly respond to a range of family circumstances and needs.
– Turning the Tide does not replace any existing service but will work alongside and enhance the existing offer available to vulnerable families across North Somerset.
– The shared vision is to reunify and divert children and young people from the edge of care.
– The North Somerset Turning the Tide Service uses a strength-based intensive multi-modal intervention, over a 12 or 18 week period which involves delivering practical support to the heart of the family in their own home.
– The support will equip children, young people and their families with skills and copying mechanisms to reduce unwanted behavior, increase positive family functioning, and build their resilience.
Safer Stronger Families
– Our 12 or 18 week program focuses on outcomes identified in the Family Action Plan and has the overall aim of creating resilience and self-confidence.
– Delivery is focused on helping families achieve key outcomes of improving school attendance, supporting children on the edge of care, and reducing worklessness and offending behavior.
– Following 12 or 18 weeks of intensive support the service continues to monitor the success of the intervention with a focus on helping the family to sustain the changes through signposting to universal services, convening a Team around the Family closure meeting, and finally a family celebration to mark their success.
The Service Will:
– Follow an assertive outreach approach.
– Use a systemic, strength-based approach.
– Allocate a dedicated Key Worker.
– Provide a flexible intervention including ‘out of hours’ support.
Source: North Somerset Desktop Flyer
DESIGN: Intensive practical support with all programs delivered to the heart of the family within the family home.
– Team Parenting®: The Team Parenting® approach draws on over 18 years of experience of working with the most troubled children. Team Parenting® centers on the individual needs of the family and provides key therapeutic inputs and resilience based strategies to support positive and health personal development. This unique model underpins all Edge of Care Services and delivers positive outcomes for children and their families.
– Triple P® (Level 4): Positive Parenting Program® training methods are adopted to create positive, caring relationships between parents and their children. The application of the Triple P® aims to prevent behavioral problems in children by enhancing the knowledge, skills and confidence of parents. (Triple P® programs delivered as part of a 12 week program.)
– Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT): SFBT provides a focus on what families want to achieve rather than simply the problems that exist. Setting targets of small increments (moving towards large changes) provides families with achievable, demonstrable goals that build confidence and maintain motivation.
Source: North Somerset Desktop Flyer
OUTCOMES METRICS:
– Child returns to family OR child remains at home and no longer needs to enter care within four weeks of completion of intervention (30% of total outcomes value)
– Child remains at home for a further six months (45% of total outcomes value)
– Family and child achieve defined improvement in Outcomes Star scores (5% of total outcomes value)
– Child remains at home for a further six months (20% of total outcomes value)
Source: Oxford UK Government Lab Project Database
REFERENCES:
– University of Oxford, Blavatnik School of Government, Government Outcomes Lab, Project Database
– North Somerset, Turning the Tide Desktop Flyer
– North Somerset Council, Service Directory
– North Somerset Providers and Investor Presentation (February 2016)
– Instiglio Link
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