Family Wellbeing Partnership in Clackmannanshire: evaluation - summary report

Definitions of the four initial FWP workstreams

Safeguarding Through Rapid Intervention (STRIVE ): a multi-agency crisis response which includes Housing, Child and Adult Social Work, Education and Money Support services for those at risk of crises in relation to issues such as homelessness, domestic abuse and mental health. The STRIVE approach aims to move towards preventative support through trialling a multi-agency approach at an earlier, pre-crisis stage, particularly through engagement with more universal services such as schools and health and community settings, and to ensure people are also able to access community supports to sustain outcomes longer-term.

Child Wellbeing Partnership (CWP): with a strong focus on childcare and child wellbeing, the CWP ensures greater integration of local services and opportunities to ensure both parents/carers and children and young people receive the support they need. Linked to the other FWP work strands, the CWP is fundamentally about wrapping holistic support around families and children and young people who need it, which includes support for parents/carers seeking wellbeing, employment or learning opportunities.

Community Around The School (CATS): an approach seeking to deliberately wrap various assets and opportunities around young people and their families to create holistic support pathways that enhance wellbeing, support connectedness and create opportunities around, for example, employability and skills. Trialled in Alloa Academy, the approach is now being taken forward in the local authority’s other secondary schools. In Alloa, at least 30 such supports have been drawn in around the school, including Values Based Leadership (VBL), mentoring, financial inclusion support, breakfast clubs, adult literacy programmes and various community events.

Enhancing Employability: this workstream seeks to enhance employability support to better meet the needs of local families and employers. The work builds on previous work in Clackmannanshire on the wellbeing economy, taking a broad view of how to deliver on its aims, including ensuring employability support is integrated with other available supports (e.g. childcare) so people can access holistic and person-centred support that addresses multiple outcomes simultaneously.