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Children’s Services Scrutiny Forum – 31 January 2011 (n) The high level threshold criteria for support needs to be lowered; 7.3 (b) (o) (p) (q) (r) (s) (t) (u) (v) (w) (x) (y) Understanding and knowledge of services is limited; Services need to communicate with each other and be co-ordinated; Information sent to families earlier; Information for parents / professionals that makes it easier to understand what services are available; Clearer information on how to refer into Think Family services; Schools are instrumental in the promotion of the Think Family services and information on the services and how they can be accessed should be included in school induction packs. Letting people know – available to everyone; Need to know who to contact for the different services; Use different ways to communicate; Not just 9 to 5 services; and Don’t label families (2) In what ways can the Council / partner organisations ensure that parents and their families get the support they need at the earliest opportunity? (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) Early intervention should be introduced as early as during pregnancy and nursery provision; Better advertising and co-ordination of multi-agency services is an area that needs to be developed. Use of the Common Assessment Framework; Look to set up regular meetings with families / parents to ensure they are listened to and make sure they are aware of what support they can get; School could hold a parent meeting with Team around the Primary School, so the schools can promote; Team around the Primary School should have greater responsibility for this; Take account of the views of children; 11. 01. 31 - 7.3 (b)- CSSF - Feedbac k from Think F amil y Wor kshop 2 HARTLEPOOL BOROUGH COUNCIL
Children’s Services Scrutiny Forum – 31 January 2011 (h) Care co-ordination; 7.3 (b) (i) (j) (k) (l) (m) (n) (o) (p) (q) (r) More volunteers needed; Key worker system; The individual as the expert; Need to change culture – start doing with parents; Improve links between services; Not hard to reach families but hard to reach services; Poor experiences of statutory services – ineffective provision; School website / parent groups – texts for information; Raising awareness of the self-referral process is an issue and needs further development / advertising; School assemblies for information on services to explain to young people (3) In what ways can the Council / partner organisations maintain contact with families who have accessed Think Family services and may need to access them again in the future? (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f) (g) (h) (i) (j) Introduce a help-line number, drop in sessions, catch up meetings and/ or text messages to keep in touch with families who access Think Family services; emails / telephone calls / texts / social networks / person to check; Three month review post closure; More awareness of the Common Assessment Framework; Need to know someone is there should you need support in the future; What are Think Family services? Is it an ethos or services?; News letters for families that have had previous contact; Feed back forms to gather views to inform future work; Covering letters could help with follow on support; Parents who have received support through Team around the Schools – contact, speak to parents that may require this service; 11. 01. 31 - 7.3 (b)- CSSF - Feedbac k from Think F amil y Wor kshop 3 HARTLEPOOL BOROUGH COUNCIL
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