Transcript Communicating Change

Children’s Services
Department
Staff Meeting
27th April 2007
Objectives for Today
1. You know what the Children’s Service is
aiming to achieve
2. You know what your service area’s contribution
is to that
3. You know what your own contribution is to that
4. You know more about what other
teams/individuals contribution is to that
5. You know more about which teams and people
you need to work with to achieve our Service
Objectives and Improve outcomes for children
6. You are ready for the JAR
The I.I.P Circle
Childrens Service Outcome
Targets
Better
Outcomes for Children
Your Service
Contribution
Your Contribution
The Children’s Service
Circle
Childrens Service Outcome
Targets
Other Service’s
Contribution
Better
Outcomes for Children
Other’s Contribution
Your Contribution
Your Service
Contribution
What we aim to do
• Review of the Children & Young People’s
Plan
A Partnership
• Our vision, as set out in the Children & Young People’s
Plan, is to:
– Provide opportunities for all children to maximise
their life chances, continuing to drive up standards of
achievement for all
– Narrow the achievement gaps between the vulnerable
and disadvantaged groups and the wider population
– Ensure that their safety is paramount in all the
environments where they live, learn, play and travel
– Provide the highest standards of support and care to
those children most in need of our support and
protection
– Improve the health of all children and young people,
narrowing the gaps between disadvantaged children,
young people and their families
Creating a ladder of
opportunity for all
Achieving Economic Well-being
Make a Positive Contribution
Enjoy & Achieve
Be Healthy
Stay Safe
Our priorities for
2007-08
• Prevention and early intervention
• A renewed focus on safety for
children and young people wherever
they go in the borough
• Improving standards of education
and the choice of in-borough schools
• Improved attendance
• Improving the life chances of
vulnerable children
Our achievements
• An improving performance in 2006-07
• Our provisional Annual Performance Assessment
(APA) rating
[1 = poor, 4 = outstanding]
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BE HEALTHY
STAY SAFE
ENJOY & ACHIEVE
MAKE A POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION
ACHIEVE ECONOMIC WELL-BEING
CAPACITY TO IMPROVE
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‘GOOD WITH OUTSTANDING FEATURES’
JAR and our
inspections so far
• Youth Offending Service
• Youth Service
• Corporate Performance
Assessment (CPA)
• Joint Area Review (JAR)
Feedback from JAR
analysis week
• Case tracking exercise (11 social care
and 4 SEN)
– Safeguarding good
– Good multi-agency work
– Good co-ordination
– Good examples of additional support
– Good involvement of children and young
people
• JAR team ‘further on’ than usual
because of the quality of information
that has been supplied
• So they have narrowed and
refocussed their lines of enquiry
• This means that the TIMETABLE is
being reviewed (8 – 18 May: please
be on stand by)
• The lines of enquiry are:
– Staying safe
• Road accidents
• Bullying
• Referrals to Contact & Assessment Services
(CAS) (and repeats)
• Lead professional
• Day in CAS ‘duty room’
• Children in care (LAC)
– Pathway planning
– High rate of pregnancies
– Placement choice & sufficiency
– Health promotion
– School attendance
– Support of children placed out of
borough
• Learning Disability & Difficulty
– Strategy (and inclusion)
– Joint work with partner agencies
– Respite care
– Direct payments
• + 3 additional lines of enquiry
– Child & Adolescent Mental Health
Services (Camhs)
• New contract, training and workforce
development partnership)
– Achievement of boys
• Black African/Caribbean, white FSM,
travellers, in care, EAL, asylum
– Workbased learning / Post 16
• Participation, apprenticeship, E2E, disabled
young people
• Also interested in
– Action plans
– Partnership
– Performance management
– Joint commissioning
– Workforce planning
– ICT/Information sharing
– Value for money
Other issues
• Finance
– Successful financial performance 06-07
– Ready to deliver savings in 07-08
– Starting work on Medium Term Financial Strategy 08-09
• Schools
– Published Primary & Special School Strategy
– Withdrawn proposal to close Hurlingham & Chelsea
School
– Setting up Fulham Schools Commission
• Accommodation
– Review
– Establish principles
• Access
• Co-location
• Hot desking and remote working
• Savings
Some examples of
service interdependence
Teenage
pregnancy/sexual
health worker
‘Case managing’
social worker
Independent
reviewing admin
officer
15 year
old girl in
care
Family placement
(fostering) worker
Education in
care worker
Finance Officer
Team Leader
Contact &
Assessment Social
Worker
Neighbourhood
nursery worker
3 year old boy at
home
CAF co-ordinator
Children’s Centre Early
Intervention Team
Worker