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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(July-December 2011)
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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