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Positive Families Partnership

Supporting families with young people at risk of being taken into care across multiple London boroughs, providing them with access to family therapy interventions.

  • Location

    London

  • Launch

    Feb 2018

  • Area

    Systemic Support for Families

Collaborators & funding partners

  • Merton Borough Council

  • Sutton Borough Council

  • Tower Hamlets Borough Council

  • Haringey Borough Council

  • Kingston upon Thames Borough Council

  • Barking & Dagenham Borough Council

  • Hounslow Borough Council

  • Life Chances Fund

  • Bexley Borough Council

  • Newham London Borough Council

  • Richmond upon Thames Borough Council

Delivery Partners

  • South West London & St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust

  • Family Action

  • Multisystemic Therapy

  • Functional Family Therapy

  • Family Psychology Mutual

Team

Collaborators & funding partners

  • Merton Borough Council

  • Sutton Borough Council

  • Tower Hamlets Borough Council

  • Haringey Borough Council

  • Kingston upon Thames Borough Council

  • Barking & Dagenham Borough Council

  • Hounslow Borough Council

  • Life Chances Fund

  • Bexley Borough Council

  • Newham London Borough Council

  • Richmond upon Thames Borough Council

Delivery Partners

  • South West London & St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust

  • Family Action

  • Multisystemic Therapy

  • Functional Family Therapy

  • Family Psychology Mutual

  • Mila founded and leads Bridges Outcomes Partnerships (BOP). At BOP, we work to radically improve human services and environmental initiatives to improve outcomes for people and value for society. Programmes BOP supports are dedicated to empowering people across the world to improve their lives, in areas ranging from education and wellbeing to housing, child protection, employment and environmental protection. Mila is on boards of Positive Families Partnership, Stronger Families, Forward, North East Lincolnshire Thrive, Ways to Wellness, Education Outcomes Partnerships, along with other family, employment, and refugee support focused programmes.

    Mila is also a Trustee for Clore Social Leadership, organisation dedicated to providing social leaders with world class leadership development.

    Prior to Bridges, Mila’s career spanned public, private, and third sector. Mila helped create and run Education Generation, a crowdsourcing social enterprise focused on enabling young leaders in low-and middle-income countries to participate in some of the world’s most forward-thinking education programmes.

  • Jonathan is the Data and Impact Manager at KBOP and KDASS. He supports the operational teams who provide housing support and domestic abuse services in Kirklees, Yorkshire.

    Jonathan holds a Masters in Research Methods and Public Policy, and an undergraduate degree in Psychology. His academic research focused on impact investing, specifically how the public and private sectors can collaborate to benefit society. This interest drew him to BOP and the Positive Families Partnership programme in 2019, where his key role is to work with Local Authorities and our specialist therapist teams to ensure we provide a high-quality service to families and value for money to our Borough partners.

    Jonathan lives in Lancashire with his wife, two young children and the family dog. When not parenting or working, he can regularly be found cycling or fell running in his native North West England.

Overview

Positive Families Partnership launched in February 2018, initially operating across five London Boroughs: Bexley, Merton, Newham, Sutton, and Tower Hamlets.

The London Boroughs of Barking and Dagenham, Richmond, Kingston, Hounslow, and Haringey later joined the programme between August 2018 and September 2019.

The programme supports families with young people at risk of being taken into care, providing these young people (and their families) with access to family therapy interventions designed to help the family address behavioural and emotional issues. These therapy courses – either Multisystemic Therapy (MST) or Functional Family Therapy (FFT) – are delivered by specialist delivery organisations.

Delivery innovations

An outcomes partnership has enabled a much more collaborative, flexible approach to problem-solving. This has facilitated a number of significant delivery innovations, including:

  • Better collaboration across Government: the programme’s structure allowed more local authorities to join the initial five; by the end of the programme it was providing services to ten London boroughs.
  • Flexibility to re-design: Covid led to a full re-design of our services to enable the shift to an online model, resulting in seamless service delivery that boroughs could rely on.
  • Accountable for learning: PFP evolved the delivery of FFT by adding in extra supervisory capacity when it was clear that it would be needed to ensure model fidelity. PFP has shared the adaptations it has made to modify MST and FFT delivery, both with the licensors and more broadly.

Outcomes

Young people spent 89.4% of time with their family, compared to an expected 35% without any intervention, at a 60% lower cost per family than other non-outcomes programmes.

  • 0

    Starts to the programme

  • 0

    Weeks out of care

  • £0.0m

    Outcomes achieved

  • £0.0m

    Value to Government