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Hertfordshire Children’s Trust Partnership – Key Current and Future
Issues Andrew Wellington, Head of Children’s Trust Arrangements
28 November 2008
HCTP – a year ago
• Strong commitment to improve from Children’s Trust partners • Review and re-affirm vision• Fit for purpose partnership structures• CYPP with fewer priorities and sharper targets• Compacts between partners and HCTP/HSCB• Key challenge: narrowing the gap in outcomes between vulnerable
children and the rest• Review and strengthening of Hertfordshire Safeguarding Children
Board• Accelerated progress on Integrated Practice: Common Assessment
Framework and Lead Professional role
HCTP Progress…One Year OnHCTP Progress…One Year OnGood progress in response to key issues from JAR inspection - ‘safe staffing’, now secure
Improvement in safeguarding and the outcomes for children looked after – ‘Staying Safe’ is now ‘adequate’
Performance management improved significantly - ’Service Management’ is now ‘good’.
Strong ‘direction of travel’ for children’s services over past twelve months - ‘adequate’ to ‘good’
APA will confirm progress
Repositioning HCTP
• Re-affirmed commitment to ‘whole system’ change and integrated practice
• CYPP - fewer priorities and sharper targets - ‘golden thread’ from strategy to delivery
• Fit for purpose partnership structures with fewer layers - streamlined business processes
• HCTP Executive with clear accountability for outcomes
• Stakeholder engagement strategy• More focussed engagement with voluntary
and community sector through VCS Engage programme
HCTP Strategic Stakeholder Group
HCTP Executive HertfordshireSafeguarding Children Board
HCC Scrutiny Committee
Herts Forward
Young People’s Board
Crime and Disorder Reduction agenda
County Children and Young Peoples Plan (CYPP) Priorities District CYPPs
Version 7.0
Themes in bold cut across all five ECM outcomes but are placed under one outcome for accountability purposes
Staying safe
Being healthy
Enjoying and
achieving
Making a positive
contribution
Achieving economic wellbeing
District Children’s
Trust Partnerships
Service Management
(Business Support)
C.L.A and Care Leavers
• Bullying
• Childrenwith a Disability
• Emotional Wellbeing & Mental Health
• Healthy Lifestyles
• Standards & School Support
• Early Years
• B.M.E
• CC & ES
• Parenting
• SSOSHL
• 14-19 Strategy
• Childcare Sufficiency
• Child Poverty
• Integrated Youth Support
• Teenage Pregnancy
• Youth Justice
• Substance Misuse
• Workforce
• Performance
• Planning & Commissioning
• Participation
• Budgets
• Communication
• Needs Analysis
• District Plans
CC & ES = Children’s Centres and Extended Schools SSOSHL = Study Support and Out of School Hours Learning
MAST= Multi-Agency Support Team MAT= Multi-Agency Team
Integrated Practice
• CAF
• Lead Professional Arrangements
• MASTs &
MATs
•Contact Point ICS
Outcome Lead for each of Five Outcomes and CYPP priorities
Young People’s Voice
Linked with key partnerships
Holds HCTP to account for its impact in improving safeguarding
Strategic Challenge
Support and Engagement
Golden Thread to CYPP
Top to bottom leadership for
Integrated Practice
Children and Young People’s Plan 2008-09
Shorter and easier to understand
Focused on outcomes for children, not services
Clear accountable actions, leads and timescales
Led and championed by Outcome Leads
Fewer performance indicators
CYPP Priority Outcomes ‘08- 09• Safety from abuse and neglect• Children in and leaving Care• Response to bullying• Emotional and mental health problems • Healthy weight• Vulnerable children 0-5• Vulnerable children’s achievement• Children with learning difficulties and disabilities• Young people (aged 14-19) maximise potential by having
opportunities to learn outside of school• Children and young people make a positive contribution
to decisions about services
Plus, two new CYPP Priority Outcomes for 2009-11
• Action on child poverty• Keeping young people on the right track:
• Youth crime action plan• Teenage pregnancy• Substance misuse
• Currently CYPP Writing Days are developing actions to address these priorities in 2009-10
• Consultation draft available in new year
HCTP/ VCS EngagementRepresentation:• 6 VCS reps on Strategic Stakeholder Group• New reps on Safeguarding Board and sub-groups
Communication:• More VCS stories in Children’s Partnership News• Children’s Centres and Extended Schools contact lists• Calendar of HCTP meetings and minutes on HCTP
website: www.hertsdirect.org/childrenstrust
Engagement• New HCTP fund for VCS engagement – in addition to
existing fund for expenses attending HCTP meetings• HCTP Strategic Partnership Manager post
New statutory guidance:
Children’s Trusts to become statutory bodies
Duty to cooperate extended to schools, colleges, and Job Centre Plus
Children’s Trust – rather than LA - responsible for CYPP
Strengthening Children’s Trusts
“Third sector agencies have an important contribution to make through both their workforce and infrastructure”
Greater focus on prevention and early intervention
More child, parent, and family-focussed
Integrated frontline delivery – children’s centres and extended school services
2020 Children’s Workforce Strategy – to be published Dec ‘08
Children’s Trusts Guidance - Main implications for VCS
Safeguarding – Issues arising from “Baby P” case
Nationally:• One tragic case does not mean whole safeguarding system is
failing …… but it is important to be vigilant• Review of effectiveness of safeguarding arrangements by Lord
Laming - due to report in January 2009• DCS's to take local action to satisfy themselves about
effectiveness of local safeguarding arrangements • New national third sector safeguarding unit
Safeguarding – Issues arising from “Baby P” case
Locally:• DCS has asked all agencies to carry out an updated audit of
practice recommendations from the Climbie Inquiry• Vigilance in response to ‘whistleblower’ concerns• Key issue is effectiveness of casework practice, and focus on
quality not just performance indicators• Safeguarding in Hertfordshire has improved – but we should
never take things for granted, and we have asked all agencies to do a ‘health check’ on their safeguarding arrangements
• Need to ensure social workers are well supported to carry out a demanding and sometimes dangerous job