Early Help in Medway
Early Help Outcome Plan
Purpose
The Medway Early Help Outcomes Plan has been developed in response to the Troubled Families Programme for England administered by the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG).
Over the years it has been recognised that a comparatively small number of families were wrestling with the most complex of challenges which were preventing individuals with those families from achieving their potential. These same families were receiving support from multiple agencies locally whose advice sometimes conflicted or duplicated those of their partners and whose drain on resources was becoming unsustainable.
Aims and Objectives
The Troubled Families programme was developed to incentivise local authorities and their partners to turn the lives around of 120,000 families in England by May 2015.
Phase 1 focused on families where children were not attending school, young people were committing a crime, families were involved with antisocial behaviour and adults were out of work.
Phase 2 is expanded to reach an additional 400,000 families by 2020 across England and includes the criteria of families affected by domestic violence and abuse, children who need help, and parents or children with a range of health needs.
This Medway plan is for Department of Communities and Local Government, and the following groups of people: accountable bodies; audit teams; managers and front line workers. It sets out an agreed approach as to how Medway will:
- identify families for support
- support those families to a successful outcome
- monitor the progress at key points
- evidence the achievement of significant and sustained success
- make the transformational change within local agencies to sustain the work beyond 2020