Transcript C4EO – An introduction

C4EO – Ways of
Working
Heather Rushton,
Planning and Performance
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Contents
• The aims
• The process
• Building
capacity
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Aims of C4EO?
• Reaching out- 2006
• Children's’ Plan - 2007
• Improving outcomes for
groups of children and
young people for whom
they are much poorer
• Improving outcomes
where the rate of
improvement is much
slower and need
accelerating
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Our Vision
We will create a world class
collaborative Centre which gathers
and shares the best knowledge
available of ‘what works’, to
contribute to a step-change in
outcomes for children and young
people, especially those who are
most vulnerable.
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The process
We take validated knowledge,
research, best practice, practical
experience and lead through an
iterative process to implications
for actions to be taken to ‘close
the gaps’
- we will search for it
- we will analyse and
disseminate it
- we will seek to embed and
evaluate it
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C4EO’s partners
Core
partners
Strategic
partners
Delivery
partners
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Themes and functions
Early years
Disability
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Vulnerable
children
Child
Poverty
Youth
Parents,
carers &
families
Knowledge
reviews
Outputs and
dissemination
Capacity
building
Evaluation
• Gather,
analyse and
present the
best
available
research
evidence,
data and
validated
local
practice for
each priority
•Interactive webbased tools to
provide easy
access to data
and evidence,
challenge to
current practice
Using this
information to
support the
sector to
improve
outcomes in
services by
offering:
Measure how
effectively
C4EO
reaches
target
audiences
and
influences
change
•Range of
methods to
communicate key
messages to the
children’s sector
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• tailored
support
•regional
workshops
•and online
communities
Schools and
communities
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Working with the sector
through the sector
3. Communicate it
back to the sector
2. Process, assess
and arrange it in
simple easy to use
format (progress
maps)
Disseminate outputs
1. Collect evidence
and practice from
the sector
(knowledge reviews)
Online
progress maps
Publications
& resources
Capacity building
Regional
workshops
Tailored
support
Children’s sector
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Adding value
• Bring together in one place
comprehensive collection of knowledge
and data
• Building the evidence base over time in a
progressive way with a range of partners
and stakeholders
• Providing written evidence in accessible
formats
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Knowledge Reviews
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Purpose
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Identify risks factors
Pinpoint resilience
factors that help
children’s get positive
outcomes
Show people what are
effective interventions
Outline areas for
governance, strategy,
processes, front line
delivery
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Narrowing the gap
• Highly effective preschools have:
– Have strong leadership –
emphasising learning and
community understanding
– Have higher staff
qualifications, low turnover,
and good professional
development
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Integrated services for young
children
• The evidence base
for this priority is still
developing – not
strong enough to
produce a full
knowledge review
• However, but there
are some helpful
findings from the
evidence
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Staff identify the need for:
• Common working and
pay structures in
multi-agency teams
• Staffing levels to
match caseload
demands
• Continued funding for
service integration
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Services need to develop:
• Shared philosophy
and vision
• Effective
communication
systems
• Clear staff review and
supervision system
• Shared understanding
of roles
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Key point is…
It’s the quality of the
service,
not the type of integration
that matters
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Building Capacity
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Progress maps
• Interactive web-based
tools to give professionals
access C4EO evidence
• They are designed to:
– enable professionals to
compare data
– benchmark a given Local
Authority’s performance
– identify where change is
needed
– act as a guide and evaluate
improvements to systems
and services
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Audience specific outputs
• Range of specialised
multimedia outputs will meet
the needs of different
audiences
• Focus on the key change
agents (i.e. stakeholders
most likely to influence
progress)
• Take varied formats CDs
(text/audio/visual), online
learning products, short
videos or media campaigns
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From the sector for the sector
• Workshops and support
participants in
understanding ‘what
works’
• Sector Specialists
• Tailored Support
• Online communities of
practice
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Thank you - questions
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