Families at Risk Intensive Support Service (FRISS)
Report on Activity (2010)
About the Families
w During the calendar year January – December 2010, the FRISS teams started interventions with 109 families.
w These families contained 250 children.
w 162 (65 per cent) of these children were open to Children’s Social Care at some point in the year.
Changing Trax: 88% of children were open to CSC in 2010
FIP: 79% of children were open to CSC in 2010
Community FIP: 35% of children were open to CSC in 2010
w 72 (29 per cent) of the children had a CAF logged for them by the end of 2010.
w Location – map shows where these families lived.
Outcomes
Edge of Care
Child Protection / 2009 referrals (closed)Children at risk of CP but who did not progress to CP plan / 15
Children on CP plan at referral which ended during intervention / 9
Children on CP plan at referral which ended after intervention / 12
Children who started CP plan after referral which ended during intervention / 0
Children who started CP plan after referral which ended after intervention / 2
LAC / 2009 referrals (closed)
Children at risk of LAC but who did not become LAC / 7
Children who were LAC at referral but ended during intervention / 11
Children who were LAC at referral which ended after intervention / 0
Children who became LAC after referral which ended during intervention / 1
Children who became LAC after referral which ended after intervention / 0
Anti-Social Behaviour
49 per cent of all FRISS families recorded on the FIPs Information System as having reached a planned exit (at 14/02/11) had identified Anti-Social Behaviour (ASB) issues when they started the intervention. This fell to 28 per cent at planned exit.
Anti-social behaviour actions fell by 70 per cent.
Attendance
For the children open to FRISS in 2010 for whom attendance information was available:
w Average attendance in autumn 2010 was 2.5 per cent higher than in autumn 2009.
w Of 56 children whose attendance was less than 90 per cent in autumn 2009, attendance improved for 42 (75 per cent).