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>>> Imbriano: So we've been concentrating particularly on looking at the early help
services, not only to help families before they get into really entrenched problems but
also giving them that helping hand, if they have been at that chaotic end of the spectrum,
to support them as they come out of that so what we don't see is families bouncing back
again. >>> Coleby: The team that I'm in at the moment
is the Family Resilience Service and it's a new service that Bucks has brought in as
part of their process with working with families. >>> Imbriano: We're restructuring currently
our social care work so we work with families in a very different way and I stress *with*
families, not about doing unto them, it's about working with them.
>>> Coleby: A lot of the families that we actually have on our books will be families
with multiple- or complex-needs, parenting, low-school attendance, unemployment, perhaps
the threat of eviction. Some families will have one or two of these, other families may
have a combination of all of them. A young mum with several children -- six children
I believe -- was having issues with schooling, the children didn't want to go to school,
they had a father who was in prison, she just needed somebody to help her with the children's
behaviour, she was very frightened that she was going to evicted, we worked with the housing
association, there were issues with two of the children at school -- particularly the
eldest one was travelling very, very many miles to a school that he hadn't actually
elected to go to, his behaviour was suffering, his attendance was suffering. Through working
with her we managed to get the schooling sorted out and that had a major impact on the eldest
child but also on the other children, because as his behaviour changed their behaviour began
to change. >>> Imbriano: So we're piloting and prototyping
different ways of working around different assessments, family plans -- those things
are really important and equally important is looking at different ways of measuring,
because we need to measure to make sure that what we've done in terms of different working
patterns in the council but also with our partners, those things are delivering the
differences that we want to see to make the big changes to people's lives.