Delivering employment programmes: the role of local data London Councils

1. Delivering employment programmes:the role of local dataLondon Councils 25 January 2010 Martin Baillie Child Poverty lead officer

2. Child Poverty in Islington • Index of Child Well-being 2009 – Islington 4th worst local authority after Liverpool, Tower Hamlets and Manchester • Measured as number of children in households on out of work benefits, Islington remains second worst in UK • Number of children living below 60% median income cannot be measured at LA level – however, local data shows over 92% of children in households claiming HB/CTB are in poverty

3. More about children and families • On average a baby is born every 3 hours to an Islington mum • There are 40,000 children in Islington • There are 23,000 families with children • 1 in 10 children live in overcrowded conditions • 43% children live in a lone parent household. • The most popular boys and girls names for children born in 2008 were Thomas and Chloe • 40% of Islington’s secondary age children go outside of the borough to school • Several families in Islington have 8 or more children • 1 in every 2 children live in a home owned by the local authority • 45% + children are living in workless households

4. CP Innovation Pilot – what are we doing? Integrated working • Working through universal settings where families are – Children’s Centres first • Integrated team of specialists: Benefits; childcare; trainers; employment; JCP; information/libraries • Strengthened the economic domain in CAF and IW training Mainstreaming • Make progress on child poverty sustainable within mainstream services – it’s everybody’s business Use of data • Bringing Housing Benefit/Council tax data together with child dataset • Intelligent use of data through universal settings and team

5. Mainstreaming • To impact child poverty after the pilot we need to embed the way we do interventions in frontline services across agencies: • Housing • Health • Adult social care • Children’s Services • Regeneration • Employers / Business • VCF Sector • To provide personalised services through which “someone with a disability, low skills and child care needs can easily access support to help them manage their health condition at work, in training or childcare” – National Audit Office

6. Use of data • Started with concept of ‘whole child’ – 2006 • Now concept of ‘whole family’ • Built from a number of dta sources (10) • Sharing agreements required • Use for a large number of projects and ongoing needs assessment & commissioning work • CPIP is one of these projects

8. Our approach to using data • Developed now to hold data at household level • Use Unique Property Ref (LLPG) to link records • Plan to add more data from health • Automating into a data warehouse

9. CPIP – how we use the data • Regular extract of HB and CTB data (monthly) • Match to child data set • Create our large client base list - focus on families with 0-4 year olds and lone parents of 0-7 year olds • Some 3,560 households, with 9,650 children • Mapped to Children’s Centre catchment areas • Prioritised some centres – need and readiness

10. How we use this data • CCs action plan to address their reach • Track how they are doing • Work with Islington Working for Parents team (who also have data) to decide how to work with specific groups in detail • Data forms basis of case management system used by IWfP and other IW practitioners and income maximisation team

11. Monitoring & Evaluation • The regularly refreshed data-set will provide the background data for monitoring • Do not need to ask clients for their data several times • Aim to track through the RCP data base, but also through existing systems – e.g. children’s centres EYMIS

12. Questions Contact: martin.baillie@islington.gov.uk 020 7527 8620