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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