Children and learning – the new agenda

Children and Lifelong Learning Scrutiny Committee July 05

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Children Act 2004 Children’s Commissioner Duty to co-operate Duty to safeguard and promote welfare of children Duty to set up Local Safeguarding Children Boards Provision for indexes or databases to enable better

sharing of information Single statutory Children and Young People’s Plan Director / Lead Member for Children’s Services Joint Inspection Framework / Joint Area Reviews Provisions on foster care and private fostering Duty to promote educational achievement of looked after

children

Every Child Matters…Government vision underpinning Children Act 2004

Systemic change to Build services around the child, young person and family Develop the workforce, changing culture and practice

and to integrate Earlier intervention and prevention

Radical improvement in opportunities and outcomes for children, driven by whole-system reform of the delivery of children’s services.

The outcomes framework

Being healthy Staying safe Enjoying and achieving Making a positive contribution Achieving economic well-being

Responsibilities of Director of Children’s Services and Lead Member

Director of children’s services: Professional responsibility and accountability for all local authority

children’s services Leadership within the local authority and beyond to improve

outcomes Building effective partnership to jointly improve outcomes

Lead member Political accountability for children’s services Leadership for engagement of local communities With the DCS to safeguard and promote the welfare of children

and young people across all agencies

The children’s trust in action

Outcomesfor children & young people

Children’s trusts driving changeArrangements for working together to improve

outcomes for all children and young people through:

the front line staff providing integrated services, including children’s centres and extended schools

the processes to support these servicesthe planning which sets their directionthe governance arrangements which sustain

them

Youth Matters Green Paper July 2005 Empowering young people - Things to do and places to

go: Opportunity cards Opportunity fund Children’s trusts commissioning

Making a contribution Encouraging volunteering

Information, advice and guidance Minimum standards Devolved from Connexions to local authorities, through

children’s trusts Targeted support

Nominated lead professional Local authority becomes lead for teenage pregnancy and

tackling number of young people Not in Education, Employment or Training

Southend: Vision in Interim Children and Young People Plan 05-06To achieve better outcomes for all children and young

people in SouthendWe will work to: Narrow the gap in outcomes between those who do well

and those who do not Secure improvements in all the five outcomes in the

Every Child Matters frameworkWe are committed to working in partnership to improve

universal services and to integrate our services providing early intervention and specialist help

We listen to children, young people and their families in our planning and delivery of services and strive to make these accessible and children-friendly

Children’s services improvement cycle

Self-evaluation: knowing our performance

Performance Management

Commissioning and redesigning services

Children and Young People Plan

Assessing needs

Priorities for improvement 05-06 Reduce teenage pregnancy in 4 hotspot wards Increase prevention to reduce LAC; reduce agency

foster placements and out-borough placements Improve value-added at Key Stage 2 Improve attainment and progress in non-selective

secondary schools Remove all schools from special measures and serious

weaknesses Improve outcomes for Looked After Children Improve range of choice through 14-19 strategyChildren’s trust arrangements Expand multi-agency clusters Build capacity in new department Arrangements for joint governance

What should the new service look like?

Strengthened preventative services Integrated multi-professional teams delivering

services around the child with lead professionals Work across all agencies in clusters, co-located

where possible Children and families participating in service

planning Common assessment framework and quality

systems for information sharing Integrated workforce development based on

common core of competencies for the children’s workforce

Southend - our culture Performance

improving outcomes

Customer focuschildren/young-people/family friendly

Integratedone system: for 1 child - 1 assessment, 1 plan, 1 lead professional

‘Can do’embracing the change, being flexible, mutual

support

Continuous improvement staff training, development and appraisal

Joint Area Review

Inspection by all the inspectorates of all services for children within a local authority area

Southend’s JAR provisionally 2007-08 Lessons from pilot JARs:

Significant focus on vulnerable childrenThe views of children and young people given

considerable weighting

Implications for scrutiny of children’s servicesScrutiny members have an opportunity to ensure: The improvement and integration of universal services Requirements for specialist help identified early and

effectively Effective work with partners to achieve outcomes Authority’s performance is assessed in the light of

inspection findings That service reviews listen to the views of children,

young people and families

Child Focussed Scrutiny, Ten, 2005