PRTC Young Carers Workers Conference Manchester 12 th October 2010 Louise Wardale Aileen Alexander Keeping the Family in Mind Team Leader Coordinator Barnardo’s Action with Young Carers Barnardo's Action with Young Liverpool Carers Liverpool Jane Weller Senior Improvement Officer Children’s, Families and Adults Liverpool City Council
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PRTC Young Carers Workers Conference
Manchester 12th October 2010
Louise Wardale Aileen Alexander Keeping the Family in Mind Team Leader Coordinator Barnardo’s Action with Young Carers Barnardo's Action with Young LiverpoolCarers Liverpool Jane Weller Senior Improvement Officer Children’s, Families and Adults Liverpool City Council
How well are we Keeping the Family in Mind…?
A collaborative approach required!
Summary
• Key ingredients to working collaboratively • Improvements and outcomes• Thinking Family• Guidance• Developing the guidance• What does the guidance say?• Taking the guidance forward• Implementation sites
Why think family?• One third of UK adults with mental health problems are
parents
• Most parents with mental health problems parent their children effectively, however:
Mental health problems can lead to difficulties parenting in some instancesParental mental health is a significant factor for children entering the care system
• Nearly a third (29%) of young carers are caring for a parent with a mental health problem
Barriers to ‘thinking family’
• Challenge of interagency working• Confidence and willingness to assess
outside usual professional boundaries• Information sharing• Knowledge of services• Fragmented Services
Developing the guidance
June 2006 Systematic map
of evidence
2006 – 2008: Practice inquiries in five local authorities
April 2009 Consultation with advisory
group (including
children and parents)
July 2009 ‘Think child, think parent, think family’
guidance produced
2006 – 2009: Evidence reviews:• Research reviews on prevalence, detection and interventions in parental mental health and child welfare• Parental mental health and child welfare: Review of professional education• Parental mental health and child welfare: Review of policy
Key recommendations
• Screening• Assessment• Planning care• Providing care• Review of care plans• Taking a strategic approach
Multi agency led review of servicesSenior level commitmentSupporting workforce development
‘Think child, think parent, think family’
guidance
Six local implementation sites
and evaluation
Training and development resources
E-learning
Social Care TV
National
implementation
Taking the guidance forward
Training and development resources
1 & 2 – Foundation modules
3 - Screening 4 - Assessment 5 - Planning
6 – Putting the plan into place
7 – Reviewing the plan
8 – Frontline management
9 – Strategic management and commissioning
All staff groups
Practitioners/managers
Commissioners
Implementation sites and evaluation
• Six implementation sites:BirminghamLewishamLiverpoolNorthern IrelandNorth SomersetSouthwark
• Local approaches to implementing the guidance• Ongoing evaluation to capture learning and outcomes
examples of implementation plans •Develop a Think Family Strategy•Update protocol between CSC and AMH – to include CAMHS, Third Sector, young carers, children and parents•Implement workforce development strategy•Develop communication strategy•Improve signposting•Better involvement of parents and children•Review screening tools•Improve care plan reviews
Where the journey began…
“They say things like ‘we only work with your mum’ but my mum lives with me so its
all connected”“ Its difficult enough living with mental
health problems, but it feels like me and the kids have all our problems separated out
and then no one gets the whole picture and sees how we are all affected”
Why Liverpool?• Keeping the Family in Mind (KFIM)• Increased desire to work more closely
together in identifying the strengths and opportunities for improvements across services in order to achieve better outcomes for affected families
• Active participants in development of Guide• Practice survey• FAMILY Collaborative
Improvements & outcomes so far…
• Jelly Baby Logo• Culture change• Increased visibility and social inclusion• Improved access to support and services• Improved identification and assessment• More confident and supported workforce• KFIM Pack• New types of service provision
The journey continues…‘The guidance is a great way to help staff and
those people that are at the top of the organisations to really do something because it began with
understanding families like ours, who are trying their best but need some support every now and
again’
‘I hope it will help to change things, and lots of staff I think do want to work together, but then they say things like’ its not really my job’, I don’t really
understand how these organisations work but to me its needs those ones at the top, those senior ones to say we are going to really work on the things in
the guidance because it will help families’
Implementation site objectives
• To work with SCIE to implement the Guidance• To develop and implement a local work plan• To provide ongoing evaluation to capture
learning and outcomes• To share information across other
implementation sites• To share learning and outcomes with others
Liverpool Site
Liverpool’s SCIE Work Plan…Scoping exercise complete and informed action plan: •Think Family Memorandum of Understanding (Think Family Core Group) • Supporting workforce development ( WFD subgroup – emerging action plan)• Communication Strategy – internal & external• Family Centred Care - subgroup• Children’s Centre Project – steering group• Young Carers Assessment Care Pathway• Data Collection and Improvement
Your Experiences……• immediate reactions/thoughts, …..what’s working
well for you locally…• What policies and procedures do you have locally
to encourage you to think family in your work?• What do you think the blocks/barriers are?• What are the solutions? • How will you take back the information you have
received today about ‘think child, think parent, think family’ into your local areas?