Many congratulations to MTFC-P Oxfordshire who have just become the first British MTFC-P team to be certified by Oregon! Well done to all the team and foster carers for all their hard work with the children in their care!
August 2011
Children's Minister Tim Loughton announces £6m of new funding for evidence based programmes for children in care and families who need extra support on visit to Oxfordshire MTFC programmes
Mulitdimensional Treatment Foster Care, KEEP, Multisystemic Therapy and Functional Family Therapy were given a boost today by the announcement that 37 local authorities will receive funding to develop evidence based programmes. The Minister made the announcement when visiting Oxfordshire where he spoke to staff and foster carers. Click here for link to press notice
July 2011
Funding for evidence based programmes
New and existing local authorities - as well as a range of partner agencies - have been recently finding out if their bids for funding to support the roll out of evidence based practices have been successful. Full details will soon be published outlining just who will be offering what programme and how they will be supported in the coming months. MTFC across the age range, KEEP, MST and FFT are all included in this exciting development.
Training
MTFC-A training has recently taken place in Manchester for the clinical team members from 5 MTFC Adolescent sites.
Further training will be offered quite soon for new and existing sites who have been successful in securing funding from the DfE in the latest round of bidding. Dates and times to be arranged and these will be posted on this website shortly.
June 2011
An evaluation of KEEP was completed using the Parenting Programme Evaluation Tool by the National Academy for Parenting Research. The evaluation can be accessed through the Commissioning Toolkit of Parenting Programmes at www.commissioningtoolkit.org/
April 2011
Two KEEP lead-facilitators were certified by Oregon Social Learning Centre. The lead-facilitators, based in Dudley and Solihull, had each run three KEEP groups for foster carers and will be required to run at least one KEEP group each year to maintain their certification.
November 2010
At the Cornerhouse Independent Cinema in Manchester there was a fabulous launch event of a short film about MTFC for adolescents. 5 sites had been involved with around 10 young people contributing to the filming. Some young people, foster carers, clinical staff and one birth parent all joined the National Implementation Team in Manchester for this first viewing of the DVD which was put together by Whitewood and Fleming, a media company based in Cumbria. It tells the viewer, first hand, just what it is like to be on the programme with many of the young people giving their own personal views. Consent has been given for other MTFC-A sites to be able to use this with other young people who may be considering coming onto the programme.
September 2010 European MTFC Conference to be held in Copenhagen Dates for the next European MTFC Conference to be held in Copenhagen have been released - and will be 9th and 10th of May Further details will follow!
September 2010 MTFC Cost Analysis The DfE have released their PowerPoint presentation "MTFCE Costs and Considerations for roll out" which outlines the substantial savings which can be made.
January 2010 KENT MTFC-A site certified as accredited MTFC Many Congratulations to the KENT MTFC-A site who are the first site in the National Programme to be certified as an accredited MTFC site by the Center for Research to Practice (CR2P) at OSLC!
December 2009 MTFCE 5th Annual Progress Report Report now available click here to view.
October 2009 KEEP Project Pilot We welcome the addition of the KEEP project pilot aimed at training and supporting mainstream Foster and Kinship Carers who have children between the ages of 5-12 in their care. KEEP is being piloted at 5 sites across the country including Hammersmith and Fulham, West Sussex, Oxford, Dudley and Soihull. For more information about KEEP click here.
15 – 17 April 2009 MTFC Europe Conference
This conference, held in Amsterdam, was well attended by several teams from England, as well as teams from the USA, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland and New Zealand.
20 February 2009 Investing in Children: Moving to What Works
This conference, jointly organised by the Department of Children, Schools and Families and the Youth Justice Board, aimed to show improved outcomes for vulnerable children through better working between local agencies and the use of evidence based practices. The conference was well attended with delegates including high-level decision makers such as Baroness Delyth Morgan Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children, Young People and Families. The National Team's Annual Report on MTFC was highlighted by Baroness Morgan. Several workshops and discussions around the development and implementation of MTFC and other evidence based programmes were held.
November 2008 Calculating and Comparing the Costs of Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care, England (MTFCE)
This report, provided by Loughborough University for the DCSF, is now available in our Library section»
13 October 2008 MTFC-P programme on course
First placements for this new programme have been made. Read more about the placements»
23 May 2008 MTFC-C pilot announced
The DCSF has announced a £3.8m pilot project to set up MTFC-Children programmes. Eight local authorities across England have been selected to take part in this project. Read the DCSF press notice»
21 July 2007 Network Partnership Agreement with OSLC
The National Implementation Team have now formally signed an agreement to become the UK Network Partner with OSLC. Read more about the Network Partnership»
