This report will give an overview of the work carried out by the Supporting Families Partnership over the last twelve months to identify and support families to ‘turn around’ As a brief reminder the programme is a government programme ‘Troubled Families’ run through the Department for Communities and local Government (DCLG) but with cross departmental support. The aim of the programme as announced by David Cameron and Eric Pickles in December 2011 is to identify and the lives ‘turn around’ of 120,000 families who are a high cost to the public purse because of the amount of time and resource they require from a range of agencies. There are three central government set criteria and one locally set criteria. To qualify for the programme families must meet three out of the four criteria. Northumberland Supporting Families Partnership Eligibility Criteria The programme has had a three year span starting from April 2012; we are entering the last year of the programme although I will talk later about the future of the programme and moving into Phase Two. Each local authority had to agree with the DCLG how many families they would ‘turn Northumberland this figure is 650. around’. For To support us in the work we have been able to claim an amount of money per family up front-an attachment fee-and an amount once we can demonstrate that we have turned a family round-the payment by results element. There has been a tapered approach to this: Year 1 80% attachment fee per family 20% payment by results Year 2 60% attachment fee per family 40% payment by results Year 3 40% attachment fee per family 60% payment by results The success criteria are: Criteria which qualified them for the Result to make a claim scheme Youth Offending Offending rate by all minors in the family reduced by at least 33% in the last 6 months Anti-Social Behaviour A 60% reduction in anti-social behaviour across the family in the last 6 months Exclusions Each child in the family has had fewer than 3 fixed term exclusions Unauthorised Absences Each child has less than 15% of
This report will give an overview of the work carried out by the Supporting Families Partnership over the last twelve months to identify and support families to ‘turn around’ As a brief reminder the ‘Troubled Families’ programme is a government programme run through the Department for Communities and local Government (DCLG) but with cross departmental support. The aim of the programme as announced by David Cameron and Eric Pickles in December 2011 is to identify and ‘turn around’ the lives of 120,000 families who are a high cost to the public purse because of the amount of time and resource they require from a range of agencies. There are three central government set criteria and one locally set criteria. To qualify for the programme families must meet three out of the four criteria. Northumberland Supporting Families Partnership Eligibility Criteria The programme has had a three year span starting from April 2012; we are entering the last year of the programme although I will talk later about the future of the programme and moving into Phase Two. Each local authority had to agree with the DCLG how many families they would ‘turn around’. For Northumberland this figure is 650. To support us in the work we have been able to claim an amount of money per family up front-an attachment fee-and an amount once we can demonstrate that we have turned a family round-the payment by results element. There has been a tapered approach to this: Year 1 80% attachment fee per family 20% payment by results Year 2 60% attachment fee per family 40% payment by results Year 3 40% attachment fee per family 60% payment by results The success criteria are: Criteria which qualified them for the scheme Result to make a claim Youth Offending Offending rate by all minors in the family reduced by at least 33% in the last 6 months Anti-Social Behaviour A 60% reduction in anti-social behaviour across the family in the last 6 months Exclusions Each child in the family has had fewer than 3 fixed term exclusions Unauthorised Absences Each child has less than 15% of
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