How Are Families Experiencing Poverty in Fermanagh and ?

Seana Connor Fermanagh & Omagh Early Intervention Family Support Hubs

The Fermanagh & Omagh Early Intervention Family Support Hubs are a signposting service. They are a multi agency network of organisations that either provide early intervention services or work with families who need early intervention services.

8 June, 2018 Early Intervention refers to intervention (support) ‘early in the life of a child’ or ‘early in the life of a problem’.

The aim of the Hubs The aim of the Hubs is to ensure that families in need of support can choose the right help from the right service at the right time.

How we do it? Hubs signpost professionals and families to the services they need. The Hubs look at the needs of the family and work to match the family needs to the best possible services that can help. Families & Professionals will receive the option of having their referrals anonymised and discussed at Hub Quorums that occur once a month where Hub partners will be present. The Hub coordinator will provide recommendations about the service(s) which is best suited to meet the needs of a family. This can be a service provided by a core member of the Hub or an organisation closely associated with the Hub.

Fermanagh & Omagh Hub Partners

– Action for Children – F.I.N.D. Centre – • Educational Psychology Service – ADHD NI – Home-Start – • The Education Welfare – The ARC Healthy Living – Men’s Action Network - MAN Service (WELB) Centre – Mencap – • The Youth Service – Brain Injury Matters (Education Authority) – New Horizon – Action Mental – Breakthru Health – RISE NI (previously WEST Team) – CAMHS – Oak Healthy Living Centre – • Autism Spectrum Disorder – – Community Family Support NICCY Service Programme – NSPCC – • Children’s Disability Service – Daisy – PSNI Youth Diverson – • Erne & Riverside Family – Devenish Partnership Forum – Schools Counselling Centres – Mindwise Family Wellness – • Gateway Social Services Project & Mums Wellness – Support 2gether Project – Surestart – • Sensory Support – Fermanagh & Omagh – Women’s Aid Tiny Life

Operation of Fermanagh & Omagh Hubs

• Robust referral screening for all referrals to Hub • Home visits available for parental self-referrals • Signpost families to services required • More complex cases are brought to Hub Quorum meetings – held monthly with Hub members with the purpose of identifying & coordinating family support services locally • Unmet needs captured & recorded by Hub members and shared with Locality Planning Coordinator • Annual Hub Planning Meetings to evaluate & measure progress • Agency networking & information-sharing • Local partnerships with: Drug & Alcohol Forum, Neighbourhood Renewal & FIND Centre

Reasons for referrals

• Adult Mental health Issues parents • Bereavement support • Emotional support for child (bullying, separation etc.) • Practical / Fincancial / Childcare support • Family breakdown • Counselling services for • Housing / Homelessness children / young people / parents / families • Offending (at risk behaviour) for children and young people • Disability support • Parenting • Domestic violence programmes/parenting support • Drug/alcohol related • School attendance harm/abuse by child or young person (0-18) or adults • Self harming (child) (including parents) • Young carer • Education and employment support • Youth activities/support & 1-1 support for young people • Emotional and behavioural difficulty support for children &

Trends & Main Issues presenting to Hubs

• Parents experiencing difficulties in dealing with behaviours in children – disrespect, challenging behavior, non-compliance, attention, listening… • Compromised parenting – parental mental health needs, economic/social difficulties, past domestic abuse, separation • Mental Health issues – anxiety/depression • Loss – bereavement, parental separation • Special needs – pre-diagnosis & initial diagnosis ASD, ADHD, Special Educational Needs • Poverty – access to social activities for kids, essential household goods etc. • Bullying, Online Safety/Sexting, LGBT+ issues...

Thank you for listening! 

–Seana Connor Fermanagh Hub Coordinator 028 6632 4181 [email protected] Any Questions?? –Karen McHugh Omagh Hub Coordinator 028 8225 9495 [email protected]

Helen O’Neill www.familysupportni.gov.uk

Lists Family Support Services & all Registered childcare in NI … Families Young People

Online Directory Front Line Staff

Planners Finding Childcare Information on Website ?

1) Family Support & 2) REGISTERED Childcare Providers

Services available ? (Statutory/Community/Voluntary/Private)

• Contact Details e.g. Address/Tel/Email • Overview of service provided • How can these services be accessed ? Search Family Support Services :-

You can search options in various ways :-

• Choose a Service/Keyword Search • Postcode Search • Any Distance Choose a Service :-

Or use Keyword Search Search can be narrowed by Postcode / Distance e.g. Financial/Welfare advice near BT74 7DP Using the website

The service you require can then be viewed on screen, viewed on a map or printed.

Street View :-

Search results can be exported … Translations

After you have performed a search function on the website you can have the results translated into a range of languages by selecting the ‘Select Language’ option at the bottom of the home page e.g. … In French Childcare Information

• Most up-to-date available

• REGULAR updates from all Early Years Teams

• New Registrations/De-Registrations

• Changes to contact details e.g. address/phone no etc

Extra details will provide parents with more information to enable them to make informed choices about childcare:- Search Results :– Vacancies/Exp of Disability/School Pick Up … Other functions of www.familysupportni.gov.uk …

• Used by HMRC to validate registered childcare providers and facilitate payment of Tax Free Childcare • Dept. of Communities also will use this website to verify registration • Childcare Voucher Schemes eg Employers for Childcare • Lifeline/Contact NI staff

Data held on website is used by planners to map various services …

Location of Family Support Hubs

Child Contact Centres

Sure Starts

Young Carer Support - Newry

Other Organisations download information from this website e.g. • Early Years - For App • NICMA - Mailing Lists for Conferences • CES - For Mapping Services • NI Direct - For Mental Health Services • Playboard - Out of School Provision • En. Health - Food Safety/Childminders

Future Plans for Website …

Currently getting re-built

Provision for additional information on both Family Support and Childcare

Mobile Version

Inspection reports

[email protected]

Staff available via mailbox and/or telephone to answer queries/signpost

0845 600 6483 www.familysupportni.gov.uk receives 45,000 to 50,000 hits per month Alan Mitchell Poverty in

~A Statistical Overview~

Alan Mitchell Data Scientist Fermanagh and

25th May 2018 Overview Poverty: the statistical jargon • How is poverty measured? • Equivalised household income Drivers of poverty • Income • Education / Skills / Training • Health and Wellbeing • Caring responsibilities • Lack of minimum needs • Opportunities and costs Multiple Deprivation Measure

Conclusion Poverty: the statistical jargon Definition of poverty

Relative Poverty • Equivalised Household income < 60% of UK average income (in the year in question). • Whether the poorest are seeing their incomes rise in real terms

Absolute Poverty • Equivalised household income < 60% of the UK average household income in 2010-11 (adjusted for inflation). • Whether the poorest are keeping pace with the growth of incomes in the economy as a whole

What does that look like?

Single person, no children Couple with no children

£9,700 £14,500

Single person with children Couple with 2 children aged 5 and 14 aged 5 and 14

£17,400 £22,200

What does that look like in Fermanagh and Omagh… …and in the NI context? Children in poverty – FODC & NI Children in poverty – within Fermanagh and Omagh % children living in low income families, Fermanagh and Omagh wards, 2014 % % Lisanelly 50 19 Devenish 45 Owenkillew 19 Strule 37 19 Lisnaskea 35 18 Killyclogher 32 Termon 18 Gortrush 32 18 Newtownbutler 31 Gortin 17 Camowen 30 17 30 Kesh and Lack 17 29 Tempo 17 29 Lisbellaw 16 Erne 28 Boho Cleenish and Letterbreen 16 Rossorry 27 16 Drumragh 27 16 Belleek and Boa 25 Maguiresbridge 16 Castlecoole 24 Newtownsaville 14 Coolnagard 24 13 Dergmoney 22 Florence Court and Kinawley 13 21 12 Portora 21 11 Dromore 21 Lisnarrick 11 and Garrison 20 Fairy Water 9 Source: Child Poverty Unit, DWP Multiple Deprivation Measure

7 Domains (and supporting info)

• Income (25%) • Employment (25%) • Health Deprivation & Disability (15%) • Education, Skills and Training (15%) • Access to Services (10%) • Living Environment (5%) • Crime & Disorder (5%)

890 Superoutputareas (SOAs)

Drivers of Poverty What drives poverty?

Education / Skills / Training

Opportunities Health and and choices Disability Increase Incomes

Lack of Caring minimum responsibilities needs Income

Weekly wage, Fermanagh and Omagh and NI, 2013 - 2017 Source: Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings

450 Average Salary 410 393 400 382 366 363 FO: £19,000 350 365 342 338

300 NI: £22,000 £ per weekper £ 291 299 250

200 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Fermanagh and Omagh NI FODC NI 21% of Economically Active 70% 74% economically In employment 66% 69% inactive are Unemployed 4% 5% ‘long term sick’ Census 2011 Economically Inactive 30% 26% Source: Labour Force Survey 2016 Income – within Fermanagh and Omagh

% households % households below median below median Income Domain income Income Domain income Rosslea 14 22% Strule 258 15% Lisanelly_1 21 21% Drumquin 303 14% Devenish 28 21% Derrygonnelly 307 14% Newtownbutler 31 20% Erne 330 14% Belleek and Boa 37 20% Drumnakilly 355 14% Lisanelly_2 61 19% Gortrush_2 367 14% Donagh 69 19% Dergmoney 373 14% Irvinestown 74 18% Trillick 369 14% Fintona 99 18% Clanabogan 392 13% Portora 114 17% Sixmilecross 387 13% Florence Court and Kinawley 125 17% Ballinamallard 408 13% Belcoo and Garrison 128 17% Rossorry 410 13% Kesh Ederney and Lack_1 134 17% Beragh 423 13% Tempo 153 16% Camowen 426 13% Derrylin 159 16% Gortin 466 13% Lisnaskea 166 16% Killyclogher_2 478 12% Owenkillew 179 16% Castlecoole_1 496 12% Maguiresbridge 210 16% Coolnagard 524 12% Kesh Ederney and Lack_2 213 16% Fairy Water 525 12% Castlecoole_2 224 15% Lisbellaw 560 12% Boho Cleenish and Letterbreen 230 15% Drumragh 568 12% Lisnarrick 239 15% Newtownsaville 569 11% Killyclogher_1 247 15% Dromore 642 11% Termon 253 15% Gortrush_1 705 10% Brookeborough 262 15% Education / Skills / Training

Highest Qualification below 5 GCSEs A*-C 32% of FSME 21% Boys students

13% Non-FSME 11% Girls students Education / Skills / Training - within Fermanagh and Omagh Education, Skills Education, Skills and Training and Training Lisanelly_2 140 Beragh 478 Devenish 153 Derrylin 487 Lisanelly_1 187 Rosslea 495 Gortrush_2 193 Drumquin 507 Castlecoole_1 202 Lisbellaw 526 Erne 205 Sixmilecross 533 Lisnaskea 229 Belcoo and Garrison 540 Strule 231 Drumragh 542 Irvinestown 316 Derrygonnelly 546 Kesh Ederney and Lack_1 331 Dergmoney 564 Rossorry 336 Brookeborough 565 Kesh Ederney and Lack_2 342 Lisnarrick 572 Newtownbutler 363 Florence Court and Kinawley 583 Killyclogher_1 365 Dromore 595 Maguiresbridge 373 Donagh 605 Portora 407 Newtownsaville 607 Boho Cleenish and Letterbreen 415 Termon 632 Tempo 431 Drumnakilly 639 Gortrush_1 432 Owenkillew 665 Fintona 436 Castlecoole_2 669 Killyclogher_2 442 Clanabogan 680 Belleek and Boa 450 Gortin 702 Ballinamallard 454 Trillick 737 Camowen 457 Fairy Water 802 Coolnagard 468 Special Educational Needs in schools

% pupils attending special schools or who are attending post- primary schools with SEN Stages 3-5 % % Devenish 30% Boho Cleenish and Letterbreen 11% Lisanelly_1 29% Derrygonnelly 11% Gortrush_2 18% Lisnarrick 11% Belcoo and Garrison 17% Ballinamallard 11% Florence Court and Kinawley 17% Donagh 10% st Erne 15% Dromore 9% Devenish – 1 Castlecoole_1 15% Beragh 9% Rossorry 15% Clanabogan 9% nd Portora 15% Coolnagard 9% Lisanelly_1 – 2

Newtownbutler 14% Camowen 9% Derrylin 14% Drumquin 9% Strule 14% Kesh Ederney and Lack_2 9% Brookeborough 14% Dergmoney 8% Lisnaskea 14% Drumragh 8% Maguiresbridge 13% Castlecoole_2 8% Issue not as Kesh Ederney and Lack_1 13% Fairy Water 8% Gortrush_1 12% Owenkillew 7% prevalent at primary Killyclogher_1 12% Trillick 7% school level…why? Rosslea 12% Fintona 6% Killyclogher_2 12% Drumnakilly 6% Lisbellaw 12% Gortin 6% Lisanelly_2 12% Newtownsaville 6% Tempo 11% Sixmilecross 6% Irvinestown 11% Termon 4% Belleek and Boa 11% Health and Wellbeing

Gap in life expectancy:

2.7 years between most deprived areas and FO average Health and Wellbeing - within Fermanagh and Omagh Health & Disability Health & Disability Domain Domain Lisanelly_2 24 Beragh 399 Devenish 69 Sixmilecross 417 Lisanelly_1 84 Owenkillew 424 Gortrush_2 97 Newtownsaville 500 Strule 126 Gortin 512 Camowen 147 Castlecoole_2 518 Killyclogher_1 172 Tempo 532 Fintona 181 Ballinamallard 533 Erne 200 Clanabogan 534 Drumragh 201 Belleek and Boa 536 Irvinestown 209 Kesh Ederney and Lack_2 549 Dromore 224 Rosslea 582 Gortrush_1 226 Trillick 585 Killyclogher_2 231 Maguiresbridge 620 Lisnaskea 233 Lisbellaw 621 Castlecoole_1 251 Lisnarrick 631 Coolnagard 255 Derrygonnelly 639 Dergmoney 264 Donagh 649 Portora 295 Boho Cleenish and Letterbreen 655 Newtownbutler 304 Fairy Water 675 Drumnakilly 324 Florence Court and Kinawley 700 Termon 351 Brookeborough 705 Kesh Ederney and Lack_1 352 Belcoo and Garrison 710 Rossorry 374 Derrylin 807 Drumquin 375 Caring responsibilities

Scenario 11% of people Childcare: £30 per provide unpaid day

care Minimum Wage: Census 2011 £50 per day Lack of minimum needs

Choices and opportunities

JRF Report Does money affect children’s outcomes?

YES!

Lower social, economic and health outcomes, simply due to 3.4pp more likely to money (controlling for other drop out factors) 5.3pp less likely to

graduate Longer term = more severe impact 3.7pp less likely to get First or 2:I

Conclusion

• Poverty, in statistical terms, is an income based issue

• Raising income for those in poverty is a large, complex, long term task

• Efforts can be made at drivers (food poverty, fuel poverty etc) but results unlikely to show at indicator level

• Community Plan Action 4.8 aiming to take some of this forward, including understanding the stats (and disseminating information)

• NIMDM a very useful tool, but we need to get localised examples of good statistics and good programme level data (performance measure) Appendix – Multiple Deprivation Measure Multiple Deprivation Measure SOA 2017 SOA 2017 Devenish 44 Drumragh 323 Lisanelly_2 46 Castlecoole_1 357 Lisanelly_1 47 Derrylin 362 Newtownbutler 112 Brookeborough 366 Rosslea 114 Trillick 379 Fintona 138 Dromore 383 Irvinestown 143 Kesh Ederney and Lack_2 392 Belleek and Boa 151 Maguiresbridge 394 Strule 168 Drumnakilly 395 Lisnaskea 182 Boho Cleenish and Letterbreen 399 Gortrush_2 188 Rossorry 409 Kesh Ederney and Lack_1 211 Lisnarrick 413 Portora 214 Beragh 422 Erne 216 Derrygonnelly 436 Donagh 234 Coolnagard 438 Belcoo and Garrison 238 Killyclogher_2 445 Owenkillew 257 Newtownsaville 452 Killyclogher_1 264 Clanabogan 461 Florence Court and Kinawley 275 Castlecoole_2 466 Termon 280 Fairy Water 512 Sixmilecross 289 Ballinamallard 526 Tempo 309 Gortrush_1 529 Drumquin 311 Gortin 573 Camowen 312 Lisbellaw 622 Dergmoney 316 Multiple Deprivation – Domains / Outliers

• Trillick has a disproportionally poor living environment (88), driven by low housing quality

Domain Avg Most Deprived MDM 317 Devenish • U15s living in relative poverty: Income 288 Rosslea Employment 380 Lisanelly_1 an issue in Belleek and Boa Health & Disability 400 Lisanelly_2 (28.3%), Lisnarrick (25.5%) and Education, Skills, Training 462 Lisanelly_2 Camowen (25.5%) Access to Services 210 Belcoo & Garrison Living Environment 433 Trillick Crime and Disorder 516 Portora • O65s living in relative poverty: Kesh, Ederney and Lack_1 (15.5%), Derrylin (13.2%) and Belleek and Boa (12%) are amongst 100 most deprived Multiple Deprivation – Underlying Data

• Income Domain: Database for Income Modelling and Estimation (DIME), providing data on the % of the population living in households whose equivalised income is below 60% of the NI median (relative poverty), also broken down for those aged 15 and under and those aged 65 and over • Rosslea (22.1%) • Lisanelly_1 (21.3%) • Devenish (20.6%) • Access to Services: Public Transport travel time, providing a ranking (not source data) on the travel time from postcodes to a range of key services • Belcoo and Garrison, 6th • Sixmilecross, 12th • Brookeborough, 14th • Access to Services: Proportion of properties with broadband speeds below 10mbs • Clanabogan, 3rd • Fairy Water, 5th • Dromore, 6th

Priscilla Magee Kindly Gifted By Professor Greta Defeyter

Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor (Strategic Planning and Engagement) Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Northumbria University Newcastle upon Tyne

Over half a million children in UK (2012) were living in households that could not afford to feed them consistently

More than 93% adults in these households reported skipping meals (Poverty & Social Exclusion, UK, 2013)

There has been a 54% increase in families accessing Food Banks between 2012-2014

Ashton & Lang (2014) estimated that food prices have risen by 12% and wages fallen by 7.6% since 2007

Coe (2014) report increase in fat, salt and sugar consumption in families food buying habits

How Do We Break This Trend? What Is Poverty?

Individuals, families and groups in the population can be said to be in poverty when they lack resources to obtain the type of diet, participate in the activities and have the living conditions and amenities which are customary, or at least widely encouraged and approved, in the societies in which they belong(Townsend, 1979). Causes of Poverty

• Worklessness…personal and structural

• Low Pay/No Pay (zero hour contracts)

• In 2009/10 58% families below the Poverty line contained at least one working member

• Inadequate Benefits (JSA…only 65% money required to live above the poverty line)

• Benefit Sanctions Child Poverty Myths

• Drugs and alcohol dependency (6.6%)

• Family Breakdown (63% children in poverty lived in two parent households)

• Benefit Dependency (67% Jobseekers Allowance find work within 6 months)

1.G Hay and L Bauld, Population Estimates of Problematic Drug Users in England Who Access DWP Benefits: A Feasibility Study, DWP Working Paper No 46 2008 2.See ONS website for up to date claimant count figures 3.DWP, Beliefs About Work: An Attitudinal Segmentation of Out-of-work People in Great Britain, Research Report 1, DWP Customer Insight Team 2011 Child Poverty in UK

• 3.7Millon children living in poverty in UK (costing £29 billon per annum) • Cost of child care from 2008 to 2014 rose 42% • Tax credits slashed • Rise in child poverty within working families Child Poverty: Human Capital

• Education: Children entitled to free school meals have a 3 terms lag behind affluent peers in terms of educational attainment but by age 14 this gap grows to over five terms (DfE) • Health: low birthweight; premature death, Type II Diabetes, dental carries (Hirsch, 2013) • Housing (x2): Poor Housing, multiple occupancy • Fuel Poverty (Hills, 2011) Challenges for Families in Holidays

Free School Meals unavailable (1.7 million in UK)

Pressure on household budget

Benefit delays ,sanctions

Safeguarding risk elevated

Access /availability to food

Social contact diminished

Family Stress

(Extra £30 -£40 per week to be found for each child at home)

(Children’s Society Fair and Square) Research into Summer Learning Loss (Shinwell & Defeyter, 2017)

Prior research in USA by Cooper (1987) who broadly suggest that children lose an average of one month’s of instruction over the summer

Aim - Investigation of the phenomenon of “Summer Learning Loss”

Study Design1 x 3 mixed factorial design Time -Three levels: Time 1-end of summer term; T2 – start of autumn term & T3 -7 weeks later Dependent Measures Scores in WRAT 4 literacy test (Reading and Spelling)

Conclusion • Need for holiday food provision

• Provision for ethnic populations & special needs requires careful consideration

• Widespread provision but piecemeal & unregulated

• Potential to help combat obesity

• Evidence of Summer Learning Loss (spelling, but trend for gain in reading)

• Food and Physical Activity