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Ealing Children’s Trust:
Setting the direction
February 2010
Children’s Trusts
“Everyone involved in
improving outcomes
for local children,
young people and
their families –
working together”
“A body which informs
…decisions and
ensures… that front
line services work
together to improve
outcomes”
A Brief History
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Laming Inquiry into Victoria Climbié’s death
35 Children’s Trust Pathfinders
Every Child Matters Green Paper
Children Act 2004 (Duty to Cooperate)
Review of Every Child Matters
All local areas have a Children’s Trust
Children’s Trust Guidance
Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and
Learning Bill
Children’s Trust Board
• “…are local partnerships which bring together the organisations
responsible for services for children, young people and families in a
shared commitment to improving children’s lives” (DH, 2008)
• Requiring every local area to have a Children’s Trust Board (Statutory
requirement) –April 2010
• Board members are there to ensure the best outcomes for children
and young people in their area – this is more than just representing
their parent organisation
• Co-operation arrangements should operate at all levels via the CYPP
process
Strengthening the role of CT’s
• Statutory body which provides interagency governance.
• Giving the CTB (rather than LA), responsibility for
producing, publishing, reviewing and revising the CYPP,
while leaving the responsibility for implementing and
delivery to board partners
• Extending the number of statutory partners to include
schools, FE and sixth-form colleges, Job Centre Plus.
• Responsibility for producing a report on the extent to
which CT partners deliver on their commitments
Children and Young People’s Plan
• Over riding purpose – drive forward better integrated
services to improve outcomes.
• Joint strategy - how partners will co-operate to improve
the health and well-being of all CYP in the local area
• Not necessary or desirable for the plan to include a list of
everything.
• Needs assessment process must cover full range.
• Once CT board has identified its main cross cutting
priorities, the plan must set out what the partners
intend to do together to deliver them.
• May be joint working to achieve targets eg teenage
pregnancy, LAC, or by organisations alone, aligned to
partners to achieve a common goal eg attainment-this is
still considered as joint working and should be in plan.
How do the plans fit together?
Local Strategic
Partnership
Community
Strategy
What do you want to achieve in
the whole local area, for the whole
population?
Children’s Trust
Board
Children &
Young People
Plan
What do you want to achieve for
Children, Young People and their
Families? What are the priorities?
What are the high-level resources?
Children’s Trust
Executive
Commissioning
Framework
Joint
Commissioning
Unit
Joint
Commissioning
Strategies
Joint Commissioning Function
How are you going to run the joint
commissioning function? What is
the overall approach, rules of the
game, process and principles?
How are you going to meet the
intentions and priorities set out in
the Children and Young People’s
Plan, using the Commissioning
Framework?
The new CYPP – scope
The CYPP includes:
• All those in the area aged 0 to 19
• Young people aged 20 and over leaving care
• People up to the age of 25 with learning difficulties
• Services for adults / families that impact on children
CYPP should focus on cross cutting priorities and joint activity
CYPP should reflect the shared priorities of all the key local agencies, including the
PCT
Setting the direction for Ealing
• Individually or in pairs:
– Identify ‘What is your one wish for the children and young
people of Ealing?’
– Summarise this and add to the Wall.
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