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Reducing Parental Conflict
to improve outcomes for vulnerable children
Brighton and Hove RPC Conference
20th June 2018
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Presentation aims
• Context to the Reducing Parental Conflict (RPC)
Programme
• Overview of the RPC
• Focus on the integration aspect of the RPC
• Opportunity for questions
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Context: evidence
• Parental conflict (whether parents together or separated)
places children at risk of poor social, emotional and
educational outcomes
• Parental conflict across the spectrum from “silence to
violence” is potentially damaging
• Growing group of proven interventions to reduce parental
conflict, improve child outcomes and potentially avoid the
need for expensive services later down the line
• Offering evidence-based support with parenting likely to
be ineffective where there is conflict between parents
Department for Work & Pensions CONFIDENTIAL 3
Prevalence of Parental Conflict
Proportion of children in couple-parent families reporting relationship distress by
parental workless status
28% 30%
25% 28%
Out of all children living
in workless couple- 20%
parent families (this is 15%
5% of all children), live 10% 13%
10%
with parents who report 5%
having a distressed 0%
relationship. Both parents workless 1 in 2 parents workless Neither parent workless
Almost three times as
How often resident parents report that the child 'usually sees' their
prevalent compared non-resident parent during term time (2013-2014)
with where both 35%
parents are working. 30% 31% 32%
25%
20%
53% children 15%
10% 13%
in separated families 9%
5%
see their non resident 6%
5%
3%
parent at least once a 0%
Atleast At least At least At least At least Less often Never
fortnight Once A once per once per once per once per
Day week fortnight month year
Department for Work & Pensions CONFIDENTIAL 4
Early Intervention Foundation Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbwWuck7cOs#action=
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What needs to be tackled?
• Limited supply of proven support to address parental conflict
• Take up is low and tends to be sought when families are in crisis
• Tend to operate on self referral basis, which may be less
effective for vulnerable families.
• The poor individual outcomes for children exposed to parental
conflict can lead to increased pressure on public services;
yet we know that support to reduce parental conflict is not yet
fully embedded in local authority services.
• We’ve been working with a small group of local authorities to
test ways of addressing parental conflict over the last three
years, as part of our Local Family Offer trial.
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DWP Local Family Offer (LFO) findings
The LFO areas found the following the most helpful aspects:
• Strategic Leadership Support: DWP provided leadership support to:
⁻ Understand why intervening to reduce parental conflict is important and how to intervene
successfully
⁻ Support the development of evidence based strategies
• Workforce Development and Culture Change: Training from awareness to delivering
specialist interventions
• Measuring success: LFO areas developed an evaluation strategy, inputting to the national
evaluation including performance measures.
Department for Work & Pensions CONFIDENTIAL 7
Reducing Parental Conflict Programme
• £39m to 2021 to support both supply and demand side activities
• build on existing activity, committed expert organisations and the latest
evidence to maximise the impact of investment
• Evaluation to continue building the evidence base
Objective 1 Objective 2
Ensuring proven interventions are Supporting local areas to embed
more widely available to improve parental conflict support in wider
children’s outcomes services for children
• Face to face interventions for workless • Training & guidance for Front-line
families delivered through four workforce to improve identification and
regional contracts effective referral to appropriate
• Training for professionals to increase support
supply of proven help • Support to embed addressing parental
• Undertaking an agile discovery conflict from needs assessment to
process to explore the possibility of delivery
offering digitally delivered support, • What Works’ function (evidence,
particularly at key life events known to dissemination and commissioning
increase conflict toolkit) to ensure that local
commissioners understand why
addressing parental conflict is
important and how to do it
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Face to Face Support
The Contract Package Areas:
Lead Authority Geographical Coverage
Westminster Westminster Kensington & Chelsea
Brent Camden
Croydon Hammersmith &
Fulham
Lambeth
Gateshead Gateshead Newcastle
Sunderland Northumberland
South Tyneside Hartlepool
Middlesbrough Durham
Redcar & Cleveland
Hertfordshire Hertfordshire Essex
Cambridgeshire Buckinghamshire
Southend Peterborough
Dorset Dorset Devon
Somerset Wiltshire
Bournemouth Poole
Plymouth Torbay
Department for Work & Pensions 9
Face to Face Support- the plan
Evidence based interventions, targeted at families with workless
parents - with the aim to reduce parental conflict - leading to better
outcomes for children
Proposed interventions based on internationally recognised
evidence, offering appropriate support for intact and separated
parents
Delivered through contracts covering four areas.
Tailored to the target group and individual needs of participants
e.g. location, timing etc.
Supported by a screening tool
10Training Opportunities
Strategic Leadership Support
Support local leaders and senior managers to:
- Understand the implications of the evidence on their local area and
communities
- Make effective evidence based strategic plans to reduce parental conflict
Frontline Practitioner Training
Support people delivering services to families (front-line practitioners) from the
LA and their partners (health, education, police, housing etc.) to:
- Raise awareness of the evidence
- How this impacts on families and children
- How to raise the issue with parents
- Advise and refer appropriately
- Train the trainer approach
Parental Conflict Intervention Training
Training professionals working with families to deliver evidence based
interventions
11Reducing Parental Conflict Evaluation
STRAND EVALUATION AIMS EVALUATION APPROACH
Face to face The evaluation will provide evidence on the The evaluation will include both
services implementation, delivery and perceived quantitative and qualitative elements
impact of the F2F provision. as appropriate for each aim. We will
consider experience of participants,
providers and Local Authority staff.
Training Examining whether training has changed
practice on the ground, in terms of the
identification, support available and the extent
to which practitioners’ feel skilled to deliver
support/ the interventions.
Local Examining whether and how local authorities
Integration have integrated elements of parental conflict
support into mainstream services for
families.
Digital The scope of the evaluation of this strand will be confirmed following user research to
support determine digital needs.
Department for Work & Pensions CONFIDENTIAL 12Innovation Fund
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/innovation-fund-
open-to-help-children-of-dependent-drinkers
13The government‘s package of support
£4.5 million
Innovation
Fund
2018-19 to 2020-21
£0.5 million
Helpline
2018-19 to 2020-21
Voluntary
£1 million
Sector
Capacity
2018-19
Building
14 Innovation Fund for Children of Alcohol Dependent ParentsIntroducing the Reducing Parental Conflict Programme’s INTEGRATION LEADS
Embedding Parental Conflict in Your Local
Areas
Reducing Parental Programme
Vision
To help avoid the damage that
parental conflict causes to children,
by 2020/2021 proven parental
conflict support will be increasingly
embedded in local support for
vulnerable families in England.Who are we?
Sue Chapman
Senior Integration Lead
Diana Robertson North West Midlands South West South East London
North East
• Proposing to mirror National Troubled Families Programme Area Leads
• 5 further Regional Integration Leads to be appointed in coming months
• Secondments from Local Authorities or partners for 18 months initiallyWhat are we going to do?
Facilitate sharing of
Engage, encourage and
learning & good practice
support Local Collaborate with Local
between local areas &
Incorporate the voice of Authorities, and their Authorities & their
stakeholders, including
Local Authorities into the partners, to apply the partners to measure the
the RPC Programme
RPC programme design growing evidence base progress they are making
Board, Cross
& delivery regarding parental in mainstreaming this
Government Department
conflict, into their local area of work
Group, and the Early
environments
Intervention Foundation…. not to mention the support and passion from the wider
Integration Team!
Contract Troubled
RPC Package Areas Families Earned
Programme
Autonomy
Strand Leads
Areas
Troubled RPC
Families Area Programme
Leads Board
Early
Local Authority
Intervention
Ambassadors
Foundation
Voluntary
Integration
Sector Led
Leads
Initiatives
Cross
Government Local Senior
Department
Group
Integration AmbassadorWe know it won’t be easy…
How do we know if the RPC programme has
been successful in embedding RPC in local areas
Current thinking includes:
• Evaluation Strand
• Base-lining surveys, working with Troubled Families Programme
• Maturity Matrix
• reducing parental conflict is a complex issue and requires system-wide
approach
• self-assessment tool: strengths and areas for development
• co-designed with Early Intervention Foundation and Local Authorities… and this evidence resonates with current
local area activities…
Domestic
Demand
ASB Abuse
Alerts Management
Troubled
Predictive Families
Analytics ACEs Outcomes
Frameworks
Early Children
Help and Adults Evidenced Based
Service D&A Commissioning
Design ServicesAn 0pportunity to Reflect
• How aware are strategic leaders and managers in your local area, of the reducing
parental conflict evidence and issues?
• How could this agenda support the challenges regarding neglect and demand
management?
• How many families are experiencing parental conflict in your local area?
• What activity is taking place to address parental conflict at the moment?
• Do the Parenting Programmes include aspect of reducing parental conflict?
• Are there structures/ processes in place where effective discussions take place about
Reducing Parental Conflict, both operationally and strategically? What outcomes have there
been?
• What training and development opportunities are there available for staff currently?
• Are these part of discussions in relation to Domestic Abuse alerts and referrals
into the front door? In the context of Early Help, or children’s social care or
across Children and Adult services?
• What would you like to see develop over the next 6 months, 12 months, 2/3
years?Questions and Resources
Reducing Parental Conflict Hub
Early Intervention Foundation
Any http://reducingparentalconflict.eif
questions? .org.uk/
Sue Chapman
Senior Integration Lead
Sue.chapman@dwp.gsi.gov.uk
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