Transcript Children and Young People’s Plan 2013-2016

Children and Young People’s Plan
2013-16
Fiona Russell
Strategy, Planning and Performance
Children’s and Adults’ Services
[email protected]
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Developing the 2013-16 CYPP
• Changed statutory and policy landscape:
– Overhaul of children’s trust duties; new health and wellbeing
board and strategy
– Children and Families Bill; Working Together; Ofsted frameworks
– Ongoing, significant budget reductions
• Locally partners committed to children’s trust and partnership plan
focused on transformation areas
• CYPP developed following ‘1,000 journeys’ stakeholder stories, data
‘deep dives’ and strategic conversations with local leaders
• Consultation on draft until 31 July; operational from autumn
• CYPP aligned to other plans, eg Council Plan, Health and Wellbeing
Strategy and Clinical Commissioning Group Operating Plan
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Three transformational areas
• CYPP focuses on three areas that JSNA evidence shows need
transformation:
– Best start – Children, young people and families access the
right support at the right time, from early years to adolescence
– Safety and stability – Our most vulnerable children, young
people and families receive timely, purposeful support that brings
safe, lasting and positive change
– Choice and control – Children and young people with a special
educational need or disability and their families access a local
offer of seamless, personalised support from childhood to
adulthood
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Best start
• Key messages from JSNA:
– Many positive experiences of accessing support but sometimes
not until family is at crisis point
– ‘Nimble’ response of voluntary and community providers
– High levels of needs, such as depression, and underlying impact
of poor mental health on parenting ability and resilience
– Value of family-based resources and timely ‘stepdown’ services
– Need for more holistic working around key ‘triggers’ such as
2 year old checks or school exclusion
• Key actions within transformation priority:
– Better coordination around early years, families and adolescents
– Wider range of services which stop problems getting worse
– Action on health and education inequalities, and risk factors
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Choice and control
• Key messages from JSNA:
– Families want to do ‘normal things’, access universal provision
– Role of early help and support to increase independence and
resilience, and to reduce demand for statutory provision
– Earlier diagnosis leading to support in place sooner; but high
levels of demand; lack of confidence in alternative to statements
– Statutory level support well received but parents can battle to
access it with multiple assessments and varying thresholds
• Key actions within transformation priority:
– Integrated plans for education, health and social care from 0-25
– Personal budgets and personalisation, developing a local offer,
and increasing choice of provision
– Role of early help and increasing young people’s independence
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Safety and stability
• Key messages from JSNA:
– High levels of need and volumes of referrals and assessments
– Effective partnerships evident to keep children safe but some
frustrations about accessing full range of interventions quickly
– Strong focus on needs of child, with views sought and acted on
– Role of voluntary and community providers in supporting
vulnerable families holistically
• Key actions within transformation priority:
– Social workforce transformation
– Building services around journey of child
– More effective help for parents struggling to care for
their children
– More foster carers and children being adopted
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Implementing the CYPP
• How can the sector support implementation?
– Multi-agency working groups over coming months
– ‘Short and sharp’ sessions to develop action plans and
longer-term transformation programmes
– Some will be aligned to existing transformation programmes
– Looking for both ‘quick wins’ and longer-term activity
• How will the new priorities affect commissioning?
– Intervening earlier, reducing risk, preventing escalation
– Quality, evidence-based provision
– Improving journey of the child and family
– Coordination and integration
– Flexible, holistic and personalised support
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