SE7 Governance and PrinciplesAssessment and Single Plan

Personal BudgetsParental Involvement

Louise Clarke, Programme Manager Parent Voice

Carol Dixon, Participation Coordinator Parent Voice

Sharon Smith, Chair Hampshire Parent/Carer Network

The regional context - South East Seven

The local context – governance and

workstreams

Assessment and single plan

Personal Budgets

Parental Involvement and Experiences

East Sussex County Council (SE7 lead authority)

Hampshire County Council Kent County Council Medway Council Surrey County Council Brighton and Hove City Council West Sussex County Council

NHS Kent and Medway

NHS Sussex – covering Brighton and Hove, East Sussex and West Sussex

Southampton, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Portsmouth PCT Cluster

NHS Surrey

Child centred‘my child is at the centre of the process and it takes full account of his/her views and wishes’

Child and family led‘the process is led by us and we own and hold the information and the plan. Our contributions are valued and respected’

Creative solutions‘the process allows my family and our practitioners to be creative and not just restricted by what is available now’

Family resilience‘the plan will help my family to manage our day to day lives, building on our own knowledge, skills and expertise’

Empowered practitioners and parent carers‘the system will trust practitioners to make responsible decisions with us’

Holistic‘our child is seen as a whole person and all of his/her needs are considered’

Transparent‘we understand the process and how decisions are made’

Clear‘everything is in plain language and we understand it’

Prioritised‘we will agree together the priority order of the outcomes and the plan will be the road map to achieving these.’

Responsibilities‘we know who should do what and when and this is set out in the plan’Time specific

‘we know what will happen when’

Outcomes focused‘the process will be based on long term and shorter term aspirations for our child’

The Family Led Principleswill describe the child’sand family's experience

Hampshire SE7 SEND local multi-agency Change Board

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Multi-Agency Core Project Team led by the Hampshire Area Pathfinder Lead and supported by a Project ManagerT

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Multi-agency workstreams, with an identified working group lead, to undertake and deliver the Pathfinder activity

Child and Family centred

The Family Led Principleswill describe the child’sand family's experience

Listenandunderstand

Agreeandallocate

Plan

Reviewandlearn

First contactNeeding help and support/join the pathfinder

Collect information, collate knowledge, identify gaps in understanding, explore and identify the wider resources available (family, VCS and statutory and other). Additional expert assessment commissioned if needed. Decide whether a plan is required.

Agree action, signpost to services, and targeted resources. Identify practitioner to be involved in first TAC. Identify and agree desired outcomes and their priority. Allocate resource and/or personal budget, set up planning meeting.

Family and key worker develop child and family centred plan, including input from identified experts, building on all resources using the personal budget to make best use of these and to put in place additional support to needed to achieve agreed individual outcomes.

Family and key worker undertake child/family centred review of outcomes, to include audit of any direct payments and personal budget. Learn. Identify next steps and amend plan if necessary. Set date for next review

An assessment pathway

A single plan

Identification of families

Identifying and recruiting families Test Area Allocating Keyworkers Completing first part of the plan Requesting reports/assessments Team around the child meeting? Plan finalised

Date of planPeople involved in planning

Key targets Actions By whom? By when?

Name of planning and monitoring coordinator

Review date

Keyworking

Reducing conflict?

Sign off

Reviewing

Development of Assessment Questionnaire and Resource Allocation System

Identification and recruitment of families for the pilot

Informing and empowering parents/carers an professionals

Ongoing Evaluation

Based on models developed by In Control Parents input into development of

questionnaire and RAS Have taken time to ensure the

assessment asks the right questions in order to identify levels of need and that the funding allocations reflect costs of services across Hampshire.

Desktop testing to check comparison of RAS assessed personal budgets compared with existing care package

Co-production|

Participation|

Consultation|

Information

“All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me...”

Walt Disney

Remuneration policy (for time and expenses)

Parental Engagement Charter

Background information provided in advance

Support and mentoring for less experienced parent reps

Online document sharing to encourage information sharing. Written feedback encouraged

Regular face to face meetings

“I wasn't aware we were fighting. I thought we were communicating,”

Christian Grey

“My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

That's how I see business: great things in business are never done by one person, they're done by a team of people.”

Steve Jobs