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Protecting Children
and Young People
Cambridgeshire Children and Young People’s Services
2012
Children and young people in Cambridgeshire
Overall Cambridgeshire is a flourishing county, but within it there are communities with significant needs
creating big gaps between the outcomes for children from prosperous and deprived families.
 A rapidly expanding child population
Current and planned developments are creating an influx of young families. The number of children and young
people is forecast to grow 16.8% by 2031.
 Geographically isolated communities
Relatively deprived market towns especially in the north of county. The gap in needs, skills and aspirations is
marked. 38.7% of all children in the Waterlees ward are living in poverty.
 Hidden poverty in otherwise affluent areas
Over 70% of children in poverty in Cambridgeshire live in our less deprived areas.
 Significant gap in outcomes for children in vulnerable groups
There is a 33.1 percentage point gap in attainment at KS4 between pupils receiving Free school meals and those
who don’t and children in poverty are nearly three times more likely to be not in education, employment or training
(NEET).
 Communities are becoming increasingly diverse with differing needs
There are significant and increasing migrant worker and traveller populations – these communities have
differing needs and social customs - The number of pupils with an Eastern European Language as a
first language has nearly doubled over the last four years.
Our priorities and focus
CYPS Objective 1
Improve learning and health outcomes
for every child and young person
Areas of strategic focus
 Child Poverty
 Early Years
 Raising the Participation Age
CYPS Objective 2
Narrow the gap in learning and health
outcomes for vulnerable children and
young people
 Narrowing the Gap
 Special Educational Need and Disability
 Parenting Strategy & High Demand Families
 Children’s Centre Strategy
Safeguarding
CYPS Objective 3
Children and young people are safe at
home and in their communities
 Complete the Transformation of Children’s
Social Care and embed the new system,
cultures and structures
 Keeping Families Together – Placements
Strategy for Looked After Children
 Building parental capacity
 Responding to the needs of Eastern
European families
Our model for protecting children
The higher the need, the
fewer the children, the
more intensive the services
working with them.
Children and families with complex
needs
Early help and prevention
Education and learning
Wider safeguarding partnership
Working to prevent need
escalating and build
capacity for families to
succeed independent
of service
Wider Safeguarding Partnership
Leading the system
of services for children across the
education, health, mental health,
community and emergency service
sectors. Ensuring we work together to
safeguard children and young people
143,000 total children and
Young people in Cambridgeshire
Wider safeguarding partnership
Working in partnership
Health and Wellbeing Board
Decision making
Strategic Needs Assessment, priorities
and commissioning intentions
Accountability
Safeguarding
Reports
Creating a safer Cambridgeshire
for children through collaboration
and challenge
Three Area Safeguarding
Committees
(Accountable to LSCB Board)
Strategic
Safeguarding
Initiatives
Small focused impactful:
four priorities for 2013/14
Informed by priorities and
commissioning intentions of
Health and Wellbeing Board
Local
Safeguarding
Advice and
Reporting
Three Area Partnerships:
Commissioning Local Services
(Accountable to the CT Board)
Associate Board
Members and wider
stakeholder group
(receive communications,
annual conference about
priorities and progress)
Wider safeguarding partnership
What we have achieved together
 A multi-agency referral unit
Information sharing and coordinated action focussed on
domestic abuse, child protection and safeguarding
vulnerable adults - Police, Mental Health Trust, Probation
and other Health Services
 A high demand families initiative
To pool intelligence and resource in working with families
with multiple problems requiring support from all parts of
the public sector - Police, NHS, housing providers and
District Councils
 An early support programme
For families with young children with complex disability
needs - jointly commissioned with Health
 A partnership with the Mental
Health Trust
Embedding clinical and mental health expertise
within the social work model and creating a shared
approach to emerging mental health issues
 Devolving Alternative Education
To schools. Improving quality and keeping more children in
mainstream settings
 A Residential Short Breaks Service
To help families with children with disabilities
cope with the additional pressures – Jointly
Commissioned with NHS Community Services
and delivered by Action for Children
 Accommodation for looked after
children aged 16+ and care leavers
Joint commissioning with the Supporting People
Housing organisation
 An Information Sharing Framework
With partners including specific agreements with
all Cambridgeshire academies
 Integrated early help system
based on common assessment and team
around the family approach
 Co-location
Health Visiting Teams and midwives co-located
with local authority locality staff in some
Children’s Centres
Education and learning
The Learning Directorate:
Quality for all, intervention in
inverse proportion to success.
c.75,000 children on roll in
Cambridgeshire Schools
c.30,000 children in schools
where performance is less than
good.
Education and learning
Model of engagement
Intensive
Underperforming
Schools/Settings
Targeted
Vulnerable
Schools /
Settings
Self-sustaining
Settings/
Schools /
Academies
Level of support – settings,
schools and Children’s services
Universal
Networking and
partnership service
Education Service for Looked
After Children: working with the
universal education system to
ensure it supports the most
vulnerable and that being in care
isn’t a barrier to education
Area Teams: Early Years,
Primary, Secondary, Special
The Education Child
Protection Service: Ensuring
Schools have robust
safeguarding procedures and
access to immediate guidance
when concerns arise
A strategic focus on
vulnerable groups in schools
– Narrowing the Gap agenda
and recognition of school
engagement and attendance
as key protective factors
Early help and prevention
Enhanced and
Preventative Services:
identifying and supporting vulnerable
families early enough to prevent
escalation to social care
c.19,000 children engaging with
Locality teams: 3250+ with a CAF
c.2900 Children with a statement
of special educational need
Early help and prevention
Enhanced and Preventative Services
Enhanced and Preventative Services has lead responsibility for coordinating and delivering the early
help offer. Directorate established in 2009 to provide a ‘bridge’ between specialist services such as
social care and student assessment and universal services such as schools and the NHS.
 14 multi-disciplinary Locality
Teams
 Based around school clusters
 Acting as commissioning hubs for
local services
 Core services include Family Workers,
Education Welfare, In-School Support
 Youth Support Services
 Children’s Centres
 Youth Support Services
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Alternative education
Youth Offending Services
Teenage Pregnancy
Drug and Alcohol Services
and Domestic Abuse
 Multi-Systemic Therapy
 Strategic Lead in relation to integrated
youth support
 40 Children’s Centres across
Cambridgeshire
 Focussed on supporting families with
children on 0-5 years and beyond 5 years
for children with disabilities in specialist
hubs
 70% of the resource available is used to
provide a targeted service and 30% is
retained for universal work.
 Special Educational Needs and
Inclusion Support
 SEN Support for Early Years, primary and
secondary
 Educational Psychology
 Sensory Services
 The Early Support Programme
 Strategic lead in relation to attendance and
inclusion
Early help and prevention
Early intervention and reducing demand on specialist services
 Locality Teams
 Children’s Centres
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Parenting Programmes and
building family capacity
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Health & Family
support services
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School Attendance
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Positive activities for young
people at risk of being NEET
Early years education
linked with childcare
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Services from Health
Visitors, Midwives, Job
Centre Plus, Speech
and Language Therapy
and parenting support
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Support for inclusion / to
improve behaviour/ assist
transitions
Family with
children
aged 0-19
 Youth Support
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Helping young people at
risk of NEET into post 16
opportunities
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Intensive family-based
behaviour therapy
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Support and sanctions to
prevent offending
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Group work with vulnerable
young people
 SEN and Inclusion
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Support for schools and
settings to promote
learning (SEN),
behaviour and Inclusion
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Sensory Services and
Speech and Language
support
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Educational Psychology
CAF Action Plan
Bespoke Support and Co-ordination
of practitioners and provision
Children and families with complex needs
Social Care Directorate:
Working for families
c.2700 Open Social Care Cases
(excluding LAC and CP)
c.475 Looked After Children
c.250 with a child protection plan)
Children and families with complex needs
Social Work Model
Benefits
 More time with children and families
 Sharing of risk within the unit
 Fewest possible delays and transitions
 Consistency of care
 In line with the recommendations
made by Professor Eileen Munro
 Small multi-disciplinary ‘units’
 Emphasis on professional
judgement and a learning culture
as the basis of an effective
safeguarding system
 Families are supported but
also challenged
 An environment which encourages
reflective learning and development
Aims
 Bring about change in families to keep
them together where possible
 Find permanent alternative for children
at risk of significant harm
Children and families with complex needs
Social Work Model
The model is based on 44 Social Work Units responsible for caseload of 35-50 families each.
 Nine Looked After Children Units
 Will be responsible for supporting children
and young people (up to 25) where there
is a long term plan for them to stay in care
 The Personal Adviser Service will support
and maintain the current 18-25 population
and will provide specialist care leaving
support commissioned by the LAC Units
 Integrated Access Team
 Directs all enquiries relating to social care service
appropriately and ensure service users receive a
service targeted to their needs as swiftly as possible.
 Twelve Access Units
 Managing new referrals to the service, conducting
assessments and identifying ongoing support routes
 Twenty Children in Need Units
 Supporting children subject to a child protection plan.
 All court work – children in proceedings
 Children looked after where the plan is to return home
 An ‘Adoption Unit’ will focus on support
where there is an immediate plan for
adoption
 Three Children’s Disability Units
 Work intensively with disabled children and
young people in care, subject to a child
protection plan or with highly complex
needs and/or on the edge of care.
 Two Self Directed Support Teams will
undertake the assessment and review
functions for disabled children and young
people identified as Children in Need.
Children and families with complex needs
Commissioning to meet Complex Needs
Commissioning Enhanced Services - responsible for commissioning high in quality, cost effective
placements for children with Special Educational Needs and Looked After Children
Commissioning decisions are underpinned by 2 key strategies;
Looked After Children’s Placements Strategy
SEN Education Placements Strategy
Achievements and Priorities
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Development of a single, multi-site
special school
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Investing in additional shared care for
families with children with disabilities who
are struggling to cope
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Developing High Functioning Autistic
Spectrum Condition day provision in county
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Developing additional Behavioural Emotional
and Social Development Provision in county
Plan
Review
Ensuring Quality – our Network Protocol supports
practitioners to share information about the success of
each placement and the quality of provision after every
monitoring or social work visit
Achievements and Priorities
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Recruited retained foster carers to respond in
emergency situations
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Jointly commissioned semi–independent supported
accommodation for 16+ with Supporting People
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Increasing the number and capacity of
Cambridgeshire fostering families, led by a full
recruitment strategy
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Establishing emergency and short-term supported
accommodation for looked after children aged 16
or over, in partnership with the YMCA
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Transforming our children homes to act as hubs for
a range of residential care services
Ensuring quality within the system
 The Capita ONE system
Single data base system used across Children’s Services to record and analyse information about individual children
 CYPS Performance and QA Board
Outcomes based performance framework reported to Senior Management Team every month
 Children’s Social Care Performance and QA Board
Considering comprehensive county-wide social care information every month
 Enhanced and Preventative Services Performance Board
Considering early help performance monitoring report
 CYPS Metrics Report
Allows weekly tracking of activity to spot patterns of need or rising demand
 Audit Framework
Using a combination of case file and thematic audits to ensure the quality of practice
and capture organisational learning
 The Model of Staged Intervention (MOSI)
Provides professionals with a common basis upon which to understand levels of need
 Distance Travelled
Tools to capture the impact of preventative interventions and services on families
External input and challenge
 The Voice of the Child
Embedded in casework and through a range of participation Activity e.g. Care Council, LAC-Just Us, CP-Talk and
Change, National Youth Advocacy Service, Pinpoint, Young Lives
 Feedback from Families
“5 Question Check” - feedback from Families collected by unit coordinators monthly
 Local Safeguarding Children Board
Serious Case Reviews, multi-agency case audits, training, performance framework
 Independent evaluation of our CAF early help model
C4EO evaluation of the effectiveness of CAF-based support and recommendations for refining the model
 Social Work Transformation Evaluation workstream
Through innovative partnership with the Mental Health Trust - Establishing a learning culture and reflective practice
 Independent Reviewing Officers & LADO
Quarterly monitoring reports on LAC and child protection cases
 Complaints Services
Reporting learning and feedback into performance boards
 Strong Member Engagement
Including Overview and Scrutiny Arrangements, Involvement in panel processes and corporate parenting for
children in care
Our approach has had some impact…
 The number of children in care had been rising in Cambridgeshire
between 2007 and 2010, peaking at 508 in September 2010.
 We have subsequently seen a modest but not insignificant reduction and the
number of children in care has remained stable through 2011/12
520
500
2010/11
480
2011/12
460
440
420
400
July Aug Sep Oct
Nov Dec Jan
Feb Mar April May June
The reduction in the number
of children in care suggests
our Placements Strategy for
Looked After Children and
the strategic focus on high
quality social work effective
prevention are making an
impact.
Safeguarding outcomes comparison data 2011
Cambridgeshire
Similar Authorities
2011
37
40.5
26.2
27.9
Percentage of children looked after with three or more placements
during the year
1.3%
(2.1% 2012)
11.3%
Looked after children adopted during the year as a percentage of the
number of LAC who had been looked after for 6 months or more
14%
(13.7% 2012)
9.1%
Care leavers who were engaged in education, training or
employment at 19
66%
(52.5% 2012)
58%
Percentage of children becoming the subject of a Child Protection
Plan for a second or subsequent time
14%
(15.8% 2012)
15.9%
Percentage of Permanent Exclusions from School
0.02%
0.10%
Emergency Hospital Admissions per 10,000 0-17 year olds
101.8
(2010)
111.2
(2010)
Percentage of Looked After Children placed 20 miles or more from
their previous homes
28%
13.2%
Persistent Secondary Absenteeism – Percentage of pupils missing
more than 15% of session
8.7%
7.9%
Children in Care per 10,000 children
Children with Protection Plans per 10,000 children
Good performance
Areas to address
Key Contacts Children and young people’s services