Transcript Children’s Services savings Felicity Roe Assistant Director Children’s Services overview Priorities • Ensure a safe and effective social care system • Ensure sufficient capacity to.

Children’s Services savings
Felicity Roe
Assistant Director
Children’s Services overview
Priorities
• Ensure a safe and effective social care system
• Ensure sufficient capacity to lead, challenge
and improve the schools system
• Tightly target limited resources
• Target and co-ordinate early help provision
• Sustain high quality sold services
• Maximise opportunities for efficiencies and
partnerships
Children’s Services overview
• Overall savings of £25.618m for start of
2015/16 financial year
• Background of pressures in social care,
the SEN pathfinder project and home to
school transport of which social care the
greatest.
Children’s Social Care pressures
Trajectories March 2008 to November 2013:
• Contacts per month 1964 to 3549
• New referrals per year 6294 to 13070
• Open cases 4447 to 7402
• Child protection plan 465 to 1032
• Children in care 1023 to 1187
Various from appendix 2
• Social care training
Budget
Saving
£1.5m
£0.08m
• Children and family contracts etc
Budget
Saving
£27.930m
£1.595m
• Educational psychology
Core funded
Additional income target
• Various miscellaneous
• Hampshire Futures
Budget
Saving
£8m
£1.227m
Budget
Saving/new income
£1.695m
£0.98m
• Hampshire Youth Offending Team
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£2.7m
£0.39m
Budget
Saving
£2.093m
£0.3m
School improvement and standards
• Core school improvement, challenge and support
• Total budget c £5.9m
– Appendix 2 savings
Full year effect
14/15
15/16
£1.456m
£1.626m
• Retain £4.3m overall of local authority funded
school improvement activity – much more than
most local authorities
• Schools will have the opportunity to purchase
additional resource
Early Help
• Includes: targeted youth support, locality teams,
grants to VCS (youth and general), participation.
• Total budget c £10m
– Appendix 2 savings
Full year effect
– Appendix 5 savings
14/15
15/16
15/16
£883k
£2.952m
£800k – £1.2m
• Continued support from schools for locality teams
will mitigate impacts
• Successful start to Early Help Hub pilots
Services for Young Children
• Includes: Support and challenge to Early Years
providers for business skills, training, practice and
efficiencies in Children’s Centre contract
• Total budget c £18m
– Appendix 2 savings
Full year effect
– Appendix 5 savings
14/15
15/16
15/16
£1.670m
£2.453mm
£3.5m - £5m
• No change in the level or funding of provision
• Will avoid duplication of Ofsted activity
Children with Disabilities
• Options include: residential and respite care,
short breaks, speech and language therapy
• Total budget: £19.4m
– Appendix 2 savings
– Appendix 5 savings
14/15
15/16
None
£2.5m to £3.5m
• Review of all grants to create a more flexible
process
• Possible income generation and alternative
provision/funding options
Contribution to partnerships
• Includes: Contribution to child and adolescent
mental health provision and joint working with
public health and the NHS.
– Appendix 2 savings
– Appendix 5 savings
14/15
15/16
None
£2m - £4m
• Dialogue with partners
• Innovative solutions and appropriate
funding of responsibilities
Impact for schools 2014/15
School improvement
£704k
• Tightening of the work of the Local Leadership
Partners to become even more targeted to need.
• Less flexibility to provide LA funded
intervention/development activity (but still some).
• Capacity retained for schools to purchase.
• No change to the pricing and offer in the new SLA just more capacity available to service this.
Impact for schools 2014/15
RRR
£25k
• No further financial support but alternative
approaches will be explored through the RRR
Steering Group
Virtual School
£321k
• LA will still have capacity to support and challenge
schools to improve the educational outcomes of LAC.
Will not be providing direct interventions or projects
such as paired reading unless this can be achieved
through the future LA management of the Pupil
Premium for CLA.
Impact for schools 2014/15
Governor Services
£245k
• Through efficiencies and revised SLA: - already
issued following consultation with schools in Autumn
2013.
Employee Support Line
£178k
• Already incorporated into the Health and Wellbeing
SLA that has been offered to schools in the current
SLA round
Local Children’s Partnerships
• No further funding for administration
£187k
Impact for Schools 2014/15
Primary Curriculum Project
£146k
• This will be offered to primary schools as a sold service
from September 2014.
Cessation of music service gifted & talented
programme
£39k
• no new HCC awards. Able musicians will be supported by
a programme called Hub Scholars (funded by individuals or
organisations). Schools may wish to consider use of Pupil
Premium where appropriate.
•
Impact for Schools 2015/16
Secondary school uniform grants
£147k
• The SUG is provided under discretionary
powers in s510 of the Education Act 1996.
• Cease from September 2015
• Only £83k spent this year
Educational Psychology
• Mostly through increased income
£390k