Children’s Services Department Staff Meeting 27 th April 2007

Children’s Services Department Staff Meeting

27th April 2007

Objectives for Today

1. You know what the Children’s Service is aiming to achieve

2. You know what your service area’s contribution is to that

3. You know what your own contribution is to that 4. You know more about what other

teams/individuals contribution is to that 5. You know more about which teams and people

you need to work with to achieve our Service Objectives and Improve outcomes for children

6. You are ready for the JAR

The I.I.P Circle

Childrens Service Outcome

Targets

Your ServiceContribution

Your Contribution

Better Outcomes for Children

The Children’s Service Circle

Childrens Service Outcome

Targets

Other Service’sContribution

Your ServiceContribution

Other’s Contribution

Your Contribution

Better Outcomes for Children

What we aim to do• Review of the Children & Young People’s

Plan

A Partnership• Our vision, as set out in the Children & Young People’s

Plan, is to:– Provide opportunities for all children to maximise

their life chances, continuing to drive up standards of achievement for all

– Narrow the achievement gaps between the vulnerable and disadvantaged groups and the wider population

– Ensure that their safety is paramount in all the environments where they live, learn, play and travel

– Provide the highest standards of support and care to those children most in need of our support and protection

– Improve the health of all children and young people, narrowing the gaps between disadvantaged children, young people and their families

Creating a ladder of opportunity for all

Achieving Economic Well-being

Make a Positive Contribution

Enjoy & Achieve

Be Healthy

Stay Safe

Our priorities for 2007-08• Prevention and early intervention• A renewed focus on safety for

children and young people wherever they go in the borough

• Improving standards of education and the choice of in-borough schools

• Improved attendance• Improving the life chances of

vulnerable children

Our achievements• An improving performance in 2006-07• Our provisional Annual Performance Assessment

(APA) rating [1 = poor, 4 = outstanding]

• BE HEALTHY 3• STAY SAFE 3• ENJOY & ACHIEVE 3•MAKE A POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION 4•ACHIEVE ECONOMIC WELL-BEING 3• CAPACITY TO IMPROVE 4

‘GOOD WITH OUTSTANDING FEATURES’

JAR and our inspections so far

•Youth Offending Service•Youth Service•Corporate Performance

Assessment (CPA)• Joint Area Review (JAR)

Feedback from JAR analysis week

• Case tracking exercise (11 social care and 4 SEN)– Safeguarding good– Good multi-agency work– Good co-ordination– Good examples of additional

support– Good involvement of children and

young people

• JAR team ‘further on’ than usual because of the quality of information that has been supplied

• So they have narrowed and refocussed their lines of enquiry

• This means that the TIMETABLE is being reviewed (8 – 18 May: please be on stand by)

• The lines of enquiry are:– Staying safe

•Road accidents•Bullying •Referrals to Contact & Assessment

Services (CAS) (and repeats)•Lead professional•Day in CAS ‘duty room’

• Children in care (LAC)– Pathway planning– High rate of pregnancies– Placement choice & sufficiency– Health promotion– School attendance– Support of children placed out of

borough

• Learning Disability & Difficulty– Strategy (and inclusion)– Joint work with partner agencies– Respite care– Direct payments

• + 3 additional lines of enquiry– Child & Adolescent Mental Health

Services (Camhs)•New contract, training and workforce

development partnership)

– Achievement of boys•Black African/Caribbean, white FSM,

travellers, in care, EAL, asylum

– Workbased learning / Post 16•Participation, apprenticeship, E2E,

disabled young people

• Also interested in– Action plans– Partnership – Performance management– Joint commissioning– Workforce planning– ICT/Information sharing– Value for money

Other issues• Finance

– Successful financial performance 06-07– Ready to deliver savings in 07-08– Starting work on Medium Term Financial Strategy 08-

09• Schools

– Published Primary & Special School Strategy– Withdrawn proposal to close Hurlingham & Chelsea

School– Setting up Fulham Schools Commission

• Accommodation– Review– Establish principles

• Access• Co-location• Hot desking and remote working• Savings

Some examples of service inter-dependence

15 year old girl in

care

Teenage pregnancy/sexual health worker

Education in care worker

Finance OfficerFamily

placement (fostering) worker

Independent reviewing admin officer

‘Case managing’ social worker

3 year old boy at home

Children’s Centre Early Intervention Team Worker

Neighbourhood nursery worker

CAF co-ordinator

Contact & Assessment Social Worker

Team Leader