What do Childrens Trusts have to offer parents and families

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What do Childrens Trusts have to offer parents
and families?

• David Hawker
• Director of Childrens Services
• Brighton Hove

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Key Benefits

• A new concept of service
• Structures that work
• Support for families and parents
• Participation and a voice

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A New Concept of Service
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The Basic Question

• What is our citys attitude to its children,
  its young people and its families?

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About Brighton HoveCity by the Sea

• 260,000 Population
• 52,000 Children aged 0-19
• 30,000 Children in 72 Schools
• 400 Children in Public Care
• 150 Children on CPR
• 5 Childrens Centres by 2006, 14 by 2008
• 130 Early years settings
• Total budget for CYPT 200M of whichc. 110m
  schoolsc. 42 m other educationc. 36 m social
  carec. 12 m healthcare
• Section 31 budgets 83m pooled, 7m non-pooled

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Brighton Hove Our Journey
1999 Education Social Care
Health 2002 Children,
Families Health Schools 2006 Ch
ildren Young Peoples Trust
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Commissioning Strategy

• Service review, including- Consultation with
  users- VFM analysis, using benchmark data-
  Scrutiny of outcomes
• Service re-design, aimed at- efficiency and
  quality- integration with wider service aims
  and objectives- the right shape across the
  three service tiers- multi-professional and
  area based working- partnership with users,
  community groups, other agencies
• Service procurement specifying- outcomes to be
  achieved- price- quality monitoring
  arrangements- integrated management
  arrangements- arrangements for service and
  contract review

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Structures that work
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Map of Areas and Clusters
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Children and Young Peoples Trust Area Team
Structure
Assistant Director
Manager, Youth Support
Manager,Community / School Support
Partnership / Commissioning Manager
Manager, Early Years
Head of Social Care
Childrens Centre
Childrens Centre
Community Team
Targeted Family Support
Assessment
Mental/Emotional Health
Extended Schools
Fieldwork
Psychology
Ed. Welfare
Centre-based detached Youth Work
Connexions
High Incidence Learning Support
School Nurses
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Functions of an area cluster
Feed into CYPP

• Map local needs

Joint working and shared culture
Local Planning and Commissioning
Better Information Sharing and Signposting
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Case Example Tarner Cluster

• Deprived neighbourhood
• Stakeholders include
• Primary school, nursery, childrens centre, youth
  workers, social workers, youth offending team,
  voluntary sector, health visitors
• Built relationships, shared practice
• Families with multiple needs targeted
  prevention
• Multi agency meeting with the family to produce
  Family Support Plan
• Piloted CAF and Lead professional
• Successful outcomes

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Children and Young Peoples TrustPartnership
Governance Arrangements
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Better support for families and parents
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Strategic review of parent support
Continuum of Support
Monitoring and review
Across the age range
Across the spectrum of needs
Responsive to local need
Based on evidence and good practice
Stakeholder involvement
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Parent Support Services

• Priority within Children and Young Peoples Plan
• Citywide Parenting Strategy Group
• Audit of existing provision
• Strategic Review and Redesign
• Coordinate new developments- parenting pathfinder
• Commissioning strategy for future service

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Participation and a voice
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What is the Parents Forum?

• The Brighton Hove Parents forum has been
  created to ensure that parents voices are heard
  at a decision making level of The Children
  Young Peoples Trust - which is the body that
  brings together Brighton and Hove City Council
  and the Primary Care Trust to run childrens
  services across the city
• It is a voluntary organisation which is run
  totally by parents and carers who live in
  Brighton Hove
• The forum is promoting the inclusion of all
  parents and carers across the city to influence
  and improve children and young peoples services
• It is an additional and independent group to
  bring existing parent groups together to develop
  a strong, experienced voice that will be
  recognised
• We want to develop a forum that can truly inform
  services and will help parents to share their
  views and experiences of the childrens services
  they have used and will use

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How does it work?
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Some Strategic Changes Since 2002

• A more strategic approach to preventing support
  and involvement
• Structured involvement of parents in all service
  reviews
• Parents as co-professionals in training and
  decision making
• More targeted work with hard to reach groups
• Early stage development of an anti-poverty
  strategy

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Questions

• What are the structural barriers to greater
  parental involvement, and how can they be
  overcome?
• What are the barriers to improving services to
  families, and how can they be overcome?
• Do Childrens Trusts hold the answer?