Issue - meetings

Division/Wards Affected: All

Purpose: The purpose of this report is to provide a case for the realignment of the Team Around the Family service within the wider structure of family support services to better meet the needs of the local population and to contribute to Monmouthshire’s delivery of the Social Services and Well-being Wales Act (2014) (SSW-bWA)

Author: Charlotte Drury

Contact Details: charlottedrury@monmouthshire.gov.uk

To realign the activity of the existing TAF Team which currently facilitates the TAF process and undertakes only limited direct work, into a team that predominantly delivers programmes of early intervention family support and undertakes a smaller amount of facilitation of the TAF process.

To reconfigure the existing Co-ordinator post into a team-leader post using the anticipated cost saving to provide the necessary capacity to administrate an Early Intervention and Prevention Referral and Intervention Pathway (see Appendix 1).

To locate the service within the Face to Face Therapeutic Service.

To move the Face to Face Therapeutic Service to within the Children’s Services management structure to bring increased coherency to the ‘windscreen’ pathway of family support and intervention.

To create a multi-agency Early Intervention and Prevention Referral and

Intervention Pathway to manage referral and allocation of children and families seeking pre-statutory services family support (see Appendix 1).

To develop a step-up/step-down protocol and referral pathway which enables vulnerable families accessing support at both a pre-statutory threshold level and a post--statutory threshold level to have their needs appropriately met and ultimately reduce the numbers of children requiring statutory support and in particular the need to be Looked After.