Transcript Workshop A Manchester Pathfinder - The Association of National

Greater Manchester
Pathfinder
Julie
Hicklin
title
Pathfinder Lead Manchester City Council
Wendy Cooke
Head of 16 – 19 Participation
GM Skills and Employment Partnership
Working in Partnership for a
Greater Manchester
•Population of 2.6 million
• Travel-to-work commuter
population of 5 million
• April 2011: established as
a ‘Combined Authority’
Working in Partnership for a
Greater Manchester:
Key functions of the GMCA
Coordination of key economic development,
regeneration and transport functions, including post16 learning and skills
BOLTON BURY MANCHESTER OLDHAM ROCHDALE SALFORD STOCKPORT TAMESIDE TRAFFORD WIGAN
Working in Partnership for a
Greater Manchester
Post-16 provider base
•10 General FE Colleges
•11 Sixth Form Colleges
•3 Independent Specialist Colleges (Bridge, Seashell Trust,
Langdon)
•54 schools/academies with sixth form provision
•55+ training providers in GM Learning Provider Network
•Special schools with sixth form provision
Working in Partnership for a
Greater Manchester:
•GM approach to Learning for Living and Work pilot in
early 2011
•Support and Aspiration: a new approach to special
educational needs and disability
•Developing the SEN Pathfinders in GM:
building on existing good practice and shared learning
•GM level planning of high cost placements
Working in Partnership for a
Greater Manchester:
•Consultation with all partners around readiness to
submit applications
•Capacity issues in some GM areas
•Agreement to cross-reference areas for testing in
separate LA bids
•Endorsement from Lord Peter Smith, Chair of the
GMCA
Working in Partnership for a
Greater Manchester:
Extract from Lord Smith’s letter to DfE:
‘We are particularly keen to ensure that children and young
people with learning difficulties and disabilities are able to
access appropriate learning, health and social care provision to
enable them to reach their full potential.
In this context, we support the applications for SEN Pathfinder
status from Manchester, Oldham/Rochdale, Trafford and Wigan.
These authorities have committed to work together across a
range of areas to be tested and to share outcomes and learning
with all GMCA councils.’
Working in Partnership for a
Greater Manchester:
•Request from DfE to form a GM Consortium (only
Pathfinders in NW)
•Establishment of GM Steering Group
•Intention to include all GM areas and other relevant
partners, including Transport for GM
Working in Partnership for a
Greater Manchester:
•Trafford:
vulnerable children and parents
•Wigan:
vulnerable children and parents
•Oldham/Rochdale:
age range and parents
•Manchester:
14-25 age range and employment
Pathfinder evaluation
To establish whether the Pathfinders:
• Increase real choice and control, and improve
outcomes, for families from a range of backgrounds
with children and young people with SEN/D
• Make the current support system more transparent,
less adversarial and less bureaucratic
• Introduce greater independence into the assessment
process by using the voluntary sector
• Demonstrate value for money, by looking at the cost
of reform and associated benefits
Working in Partnership for a
Greater Manchester:
Pathfinder progress report – Oldham/Rochdale
Main focus:
- Single assessment / plan
- Personal budgets
- Moving into adulthood
- Age Range
- Parental Involvement
- Banded Funding
Working in Partnership for a
Greater Manchester:
Pathfinder progress report – Oldham/Rochdale
What's working well:
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Local enthusiasm for direction of Green Paper
Excellent local sign up from parents /schools
Work on personal budgets progressing well
Parents on board and actively working with partners
on future engagement/approaches
Buy-in at executive level across agencies
Working in Partnership for a
Greater Manchester:
Pathfinder progress report – Oldham/Rochdale
Emerging issues:
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PCTs to Clinical Commissioning Groups - impact on
involvement at a strategic level?
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Impact of LA budget cuts/service redesign
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Parental/service capacity to deliver new agenda?
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Timescales - too short to deliver the expectations - an
extra year is needed!
Working in Partnership for a
Greater Manchester:
Pathfinder progress report – Trafford
Main Focus:
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Development of integrated assessment, coordinated by
key worker with mentoring support for parents
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Development of ‘single space’ storage system; privacy
impact assessment; compliance with data protection
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Personalisation pilot to include education and health
Working in Partnership for a
Greater Manchester:
Pathfinder progress report – Trafford
A work in progress:
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Customer journey mapping – 3 families completed
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Identification of issues arising from current processes
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Communication strategy in place
Working in Partnership for a
Greater Manchester:
Pathfinder progress report – Wigan
Key achievements to date:
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6 families recruited for Phase 1 pilot
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Multi-agency key working team under recruitment with named
key worker for each family throughout Pathfinder process
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Development of ‘local offer’ website
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Data and Information group established
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Issues around personalised approach across education,
health and social care sectors – lack of ‘fit’ with current
models across all 3 domains?
Working in Partnership for a
Greater Manchester:
Pathfinder progress report – Manchester
Manchester Vision:
• The Manchester Pathfinder is focused on young
people in transition aged 14-25.
• Our vision is to create a single, person centred,
aspirational Education, Health and Care plan for all
eligible young people, with flexible funding to deliver
the plan.
• The plan will be holistic, based on choices from the
whole range of options, including employment,
leisure and independent living.
Working in Partnership for a
Greater Manchester:
Pathfinder progress report – Manchester
Key achievements to date:
• Many consultations with parents’ groups and key
partner agencies
• Identified cohort of 40 young people and comparison
group
• Started sharing practice with GM partners and other
Pathfinders
• Identifying gaps in provision
• Established governance arrangements
Governance
Learning Disability
Partnership Board
RTC
PHB
LDD Programmes Board
Transition Steering Group
Pathfinder Task Group
Young people
group
Parent / carer
group
Plan Coordinator
group
Working Groups
Single plan
and portability
Personal
budgets
Skills
development
Data and
systems
Local offer /
information
Pathways to
employment
Learning from
the Pathfinder
Jobs First
What next?
•Continue signing up young people and
parents/carers
•Continue briefing Plan Coordinators
•First single plans created by end May
•30 single plans by October
•Young people and families interviewed to evaluate
impact from October
•Use plans to inform commissioning
•Share learning
Useful Websites
• Pathfinder
www.sendpathfinder.co.uk
• Transition Information Network
www.transitioninfonetwork.org.uk
• Council for Disabled Children
www.councilfordisabledchildren.org.uk
• Contact A Family
www.cafamily.org.uk
• Preparing for Adulthood
www.preparingforadulthood.org.uk
Working in Partnership for a
Greater Manchester
Questions: