Hackney Partnership Triage:Two years on

Florence Kroll

Assistant Director

Young Hackney

Background• Lack of coordinated response to Merlin reports prior to Partnership

Triage

• Responses often ill informed in assessing risk and need because of lack of other information

• During the past year, Partnership Triage’s role has broadened to take in more than Police referrals.

• Referrals are now accepted from:

- Schools- Health Visitors - School Nurses- Children's Centres- Parenting Service

Current situation

• Change to staffing profile of Partnership Triage

• Researchers carry out multi-agency checks on 9 databases:

- Children's Social Care (Capita/Comino)- Education and Children's Centres (EMS and e-start)- Young Hackney (IYSS/UMIS/YOIS)- NHS (Electronic Patient Records/RIO)

• Total number of referrals:

- Year 1 (July 2009-June 2010) 5467- Year 2 (July 2010-June 2011) 6054- Year 3 (July 2011-December 2011) 3607

• Now linked to Children & Young People’s Partnership Panel

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Children & Young People’s Partnership Panel

• Provides management oversight

• Resource allocation through high level decision making

• Step up and step down to/from Children’s Social Care

• Step across from Children's Centres, early CAMHS services and Health Visitors

• Identifies, responds to and tracks troubled families

• 648 cases have been referred to the panel since April 2010

Benefits

• Domestic Violence - pathways and procedures

• Missing children - able to provide scrutiny reports

• Children Missing Education

• Highlighted duplications in work as well as gaps in service provision

• Borough wide response to safeguarding, vulnerability and risk of harm

Evaluation

Year long evaluation project planned from April 2012

• Analysis of both the Partnership Triage Unit and The Children & Young People’s Partnership Panel

• Case studies tracking a child or young person through the system

• In-depth interviews with professionals and stakeholders

• A sample of high repeat cases and cases resulting in NFA

• Review the effectiveness of early intervention and partnership working

Next steps

• London wide evaluation

• Wealth of information to inform and plan service delivery, in particular for troubled families

• Further developments of partnerships with adult services and CAMHS

• Single point of contact