Please see the update below on the Stronger Families Programme

 

Stronger families qu3 update report

At the February Members Meeting a presentation on Resilience by Julie Tolhurst. The presentation Julie spoke about is available here

JH Breakfast Seminar 6 Nov 14

 

 

Kirklees Council have asked TSL Kirklees to help to find an additional voluntary sector representative for this group.

The Group has Terms of Reference (Disabled Children Strategy Group ToR) which set out its role / remit / membership etc. The Disabled Children’s Strategy is at an advanced draft stage, due to go to Children’s Trust in the next couple of meetings.

PCAN – parents of Children with Additional Needs – have been involved with the development of the strategy and associated programme throughout. Carol Thomas from PCAN (Parents of Children with Additional Needs) is already on the group, so the new representative would not be alone. PCAN have a focus on representing the viewpoint of the families of disabled children. We would like an additional VCS representative – preferably someone who has an experience and / or insight and interest in services for disabled children & their families, certainly someone who is interested in addressing and assessing issues from the perspective of the third sector. The time commitment would be a meeting a month, plus any follow up, although the frequency of the meetings is likely to drop back to one a quarter as the programme becomes established. As part of the role, the representative will get to influence and shape policy and service delivery, have access to senior managers in the health, learning and social care fields and, of course, our support and gratitude

If you are interested get in touch with Mary White (Mary.White@kirklees.gov.uk) tel: 07976 497 683 Mandy Cameron(mandy.cameron@kirklees.gov.uk) tel:07976 194490 if you are interested or would like to discuss it further.

Responses by Friday 28^th February.

Seven projects have been awarded a share of up to £15 million Fair Chance Funding over 3 years from January 2015.

Up to 7 new Social Impact Bonds to help turn around the lives of the most vulnerable young homeless people.

Funding comprises £10 million from Department for Communities and Local Government and £5 million from the Cabinet Office Social Outcomes Fund.

The winning Fair Chance Fund bids are led by:

• DePaul UK – working in Greenwich, Manchester, Oldham and Rochdale
• Fusion Housing – working in Kirklees, Calderdale and Wakefield
• Home Group – working in Newcastle, Northumberland, South Tyneside, North Tyneside, Gateshead, Durham and Sunderland
• Local Solutions – working in Liverpool and Knowsley
• P3 – working in Gloucestershire, Tewkesbury, Forest of Dean, Stroud, Cheltenham, Gloucester City and Cotswold
• St Basils – working in Birmingham, Coventry, Solihull, Walsall and Wyre Forest
• The Y – working in Leicester, Leicestershire, Derby and Derbyshire

Outcomes payments will be made according to whether young homeless people with complex needs can:

• sustain settled accommodation for 3 months, 6 months, 12 months and 18 months
• achieve National Vocational Qualification equivalent qualifications
• maintain volunteering
• sustain full time or part time work for between 6 and 26 weeks

The detailed Fair Chance Fund eligibility criteria for young people are as follows:

Providers can only claim outcome payments for young people who meet all of the following criteria:

• aged 18 to 24 (21 and over if they are care leavers)
• not in employment, education or training
• homeless as defined in the homelessness legislation but not in priority need under that legislation
• a priority for local authority support but unable to be accommodated in a supported housing scheme due to eg:

o       previous difficulties in, or eviction from, supported accommodation indicating that available supported housing provision is unlikely to succeed

o       security issues eg for young people involved in gangs or those who have committed serious offences

o       their needs are deemed too high/complex to manage within a supported housing scheme because of eg substance misuse, significant mental health issues, low/medium learning disability or personality disorders but not reaching the threshold for adult social care services

o       lack of specialist supported accommodation