Supporting Leicestershire Families:Leicestershire definition and locality

breakdown

Mother has mental health problems

No parent in the family is working

Family lives in poor-quality or overcrowded housing

No parent has any qualifications

At least one parent has a long-standing limiting illness, disability or infirmity

Family cannot afford a number of food and clothing items

Family has low income (below 60% of the median)

Poor parenting

Truancy, exclusion or low educational attainment

Family in debt

Drugs or alcohol misuse

Marriage, relationship or family breakdown

Domestic violence

Child protection issues

Risk factors attributed to families with 5 or more disadvantages (from) Families At Risk: Background on families with multiple disadvantages, Social Exclusion Taskforce Research Report, 2007

Additional risk factors from families supported through family intervention (NatCen, Mar 2010).

Child Behavioural Problems

Child Substance abuse problems

Teenage Parent(s)

NEET

Child is a carer

Limited support network

Adult with learning difficulties Communications problems

Involvement in crime/ASB

Family Risk Factors

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Local definition for Leics most complex families

Out of 23 potential risks/issues– More than 5 risks/issues = Troubled Family– Any family with an open Child Protection Plan not in the

above = Troubled Family– Add to this any family not in the above but has 2 or more

of:-• Alcohol Misuse• Drugs Misuse• Violence or abuse• Crime/ASB• Mental Health

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Any family presenting 2-4 risks not in the TF category

= a At Risk Familye.g. at risk of becoming Troubled

Sources of Family Data Children’s Social Care – Framework i

CAF – CAF Access database

Free School Meals -CAPITA One

Unauthorised absences from school – CAPITA One

Exclusions– CAPITA One

Family Intervention Projects – Manual return from FIP Records/Key Worker knowledge

Children's Centres Manual return from Outreach Worker knowledge

Pupil Referral Units – CAPITA One

Attendance Improvement Service – CAPITA One

Statements of Educational Needs – CAPITA One

Probation Service – manual trawl through casework files

YOS/YISP - RAISE

District Councils – manual returns from Community Safety

Children’s Centres – manual returns from non-CYPS staff

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12500+ households known

across these datasets

Of 1300 most complex families… 50% are reported to be involved in ASB/crime 25% are proven youth offenders 57% solely or heavily reliant upon state benefits 75% of families in receipt of some benefit 26% are in receipt of Free School Meals 96% have some family dysfunction risk: 66% of families affected by violence and/or abuse in the home 64% have educational risks: 25% have at least one child with >15% unauthorised absence from school 13% have had at least one exclusion in 2011 Only 5% have a child with a Statement of Educational Needs but TFs account for

14% of SENs with BESD/ASD 50% of households have some form of mental health problem 33% have drug misuse problems 28% have alcohol misuse problems 36% of families have a limiting physical health condition 5

Leicestershire’s most complex families Profile: 1300

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1 in 2 families involved in crime / ASB

57% solely or heavily reliant upon state benefits

75% actually in receipt of benefits

96% have at least one family dysfunction risk

DV, Behaviour, Poor Parenting, Safeguarding, unstable relationships etc

64% have educational risks truancy, >15%, SEN, exclusions,

class behaviour, PRU

49% of households have some form of mental health problem

Rises to 81% with Alcohol & Drug misuse

36% of families have a physical health condition

Leicestershire’s 1300 most complex families make up…

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77% of Domestic Violence Casework

Sourced from pilot work Summer 2010

48% of Attendance Improvement Service cases

100% of Probation Casework where probationer is a parent

79% of Youth Offending Service Casework

70% of families assessed by children’s social care

are either TF or Threshold (Initial or Core)

96% of CAF CasesTF (69% of casework)

Threshold (27% of casework)

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Leicestershire’s most complex families – c1300

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Count of Leicestershire’s most complex and threshold families –

c3,300

Threshold and most complex families by postcode

N.B. Each point may represent more than one family