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Title: INTEGRATED CHILDRENS SERVICES


1
INTEGRATED CHILDRENS SERVICES
  • What does it all mean?

2
INTEGRATION OF CHILDRENS SERVICES
  • To enable the implementation of Children Act 2004
  • Common Assessment Framework
  • Information sharing
  • Clear accountability
  • Common core skills
  • ECM Five outcomes
  • To enable Gershon efficiency savings
  • To respond to the requirements of APA and JAR
  • To support children and young people to have the
    best start in life.

3
WHY THE INTEGRATION OF CHILDRENS SERVICES IS
REQUIRED
  • Primary objectives of placing the child/young
    person at the centre of what we do and build
    support around children/young people and families
  • Pathfinder Childrens Trust Ends 31 March 2006
  • Need for wider integration of Childrens Services
  • Key components of the integration
  • Shared priorities
  • Getting it right the first time
  • Understanding each other
  • Best use of skills available
  • Best use of existing resources

4
INTEGRATED CHILDRENS SERVICES
  • Childrens Trust Pathfinder 2004
  • Children and Young Peoples Coordination Groups
  • Bridlington and Driffield
  • Beverley
  • Wolds and Dales
  • Goole
  • Haltemprice
  • Holderness

5
Role of the Co-ordination Group
6
EXAMPLES OF GOOD PRACTICE BRIDLINGTON
  • Bridlington Access Fund
  • Small amounts of funding to voluntary community
    groups - 250 max
  • Examples of grants for equipment etc
  • 250 chess equipment for after-school chess club
  • 230 outdoor play equipment for rainbow brownies
  • 242 to help 90 children enter cricket
    competition by purchasing essential equipment

7
EXAMPLES OF GOOD PRACTICE - GOOLE
  • Snaith Cowick Playschemes
  • Rural isolation
  • Access to other leisure activities very limited
  • Wide range of activities/outings
  • 146 children and young people regularly attended
  • Excellent evaluation by children young people

8
ENJOY ACHIEVE
  • Lack of facilities for play and meeting areas,
  • Lack of after-school and holiday activities
  • Support for children and young people with
    additional needs
  • Lack of provision for children and young people
    from the travelling communities
  • Inclusive access to play and leisure
    activities/facilities
  • Isolated young people not in education,
    employment or training (NEETs)
  • More childcare provision needed
  • Reducing crime and antisocial behaviour

9
BEING HEALTHY
  • Access to health information and services, more
    school nurses, transport needs
  • Access to Children and Adolescent Mental Health
    Services (CAMHS)
  • Teenage pregnancy and sexual health
  • Healthy lifestyles (diet and exercise)
  • Improving emotional health and well-being
  • Support for children and young people who have
    siblings with disabilities or those who are young
    carers
  • Breakfast clubs
  • Behaviour issues

10
STAYING SAFE
  • Access to early intervention services offering
    support to parents/carers
  • Crime and Anti-social behaviour
  • Sexual health
  • Bullying
  • Road traffic safety
  • Alcohol misuse
  • Supporting parents to keep their children safe
  • Reduction in substance/alcohol misuse
  • Issues connected to domestic violence
  • Supporting families to ensure children are able
    to live within their own family
  • Housing/accommodation for vulnerable young people
  • Services for children on Autistic Disorder
    Spectrum
  • Home School Links

11
MAKE A POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION
  • Support for parents, children and young people
    who are at risk of school and educational
    exclusion and isolation
  • Reduce level of anti-social behaviour in rural
    settings involve young people in local decision
    making, as well as local communities
  • Support for ethnic minorities
  • Joint approach and strong links between school
    councils, youth assembly and childrens
    participation team
  • Create and promote opportunities for volunteers
  • Parenting support, including healthy eating
    advice for parents and their families
  • Transport issues

12
ACHIEVE ECONOMIC WELL-BEING
  • Reduce number of young people where isolated and
    alienated due to rural isolation
  • Low level of opportunities in skilled employment
    resulting in older teenagers planning to leave
    the area
  • Low numbers of affordable housing in the area for
    young people
  • Opportunities for accredited learning
  • Improving opportunities for learning and
    employment
  • Reduced numbers of young people not in education,
    employment or training (NEETs)
  • Financial Deprivation

13
VOLUNTARY SECTORFINDINGS
  • Arch Deaconry Youth Service
  • Christ Church Youth Services
  • CSV North Millennium Volunteers project
  • Driffield Youth Action
  • Havenfield Pop In Pop Out
  • Hull East Yorkshire MIND Old Parcels Office
    project
  • KIDS
  • Nafferton World of Youth
  • Rural Participation Worker
  • Girlguiding East Riding
  • Boothferry Road Community Project
  • The Hinge Day Centre
  • Goole Coomunity Centre and Youth Drop In
  • Humberside Scouts
  • Goole Howdenshire Youth Initiative
  • Holderness Youth Initiative

14
WE FIT IN WITH THE EVERY CHILD MATTERS OUTCOMES
  • Strengths and Achievements
  • Being Healthy physical, emotional mental
    health, sexual, spiritual
  • Enjoy Achieve Having fun, creative and
    sporting activities, new learning opportunities,
    social activities, volunteering
  • Staying Safe Provide a place to go where
    children and young people can be safe
  • Making a Positive Contribution Youth committees
    and councils, links with East Riding Youth
    Assembly, volunteering accreditation, community
    projects
  • Achieve Economic Well-being Accessible events
    and activities which offer new learning
    opportunities and possible accreditation

15
WE FIT IN WITH THE EVERY CHILD MATTERS OUTCOMES
  • Barriers to Further Development
  • Lack of time
  • Lack of funding
  • Lack of resources
  • Lack of volunteers
  • Lack of expertise to deliver activities and
    sessions
  • Lack of accessible training
  • Transport issues re rural isolation
  • Identifying safe projects for young people to
    participate in

16
WE WORK WELL WITH OTHER ORGANISATIONS TO DELIVER
SERVICES AND HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP
  • Strengths and Achievements
  • East Riding (council for) Voluntary Youth
    Services
  • East Riding Youth Service and Sports Development
    working with various voluntary and community
    youth groups
  • Links with local development agency and resource
    centres
  • East Riding College
  • Local Schools
  • Extended Schools co-ordinators
  • Links with local health initiatives
  • Some shared training between services
  • Some shared resources and venues between services

17
WE WORK WELL WITH ORGANISATIONS BOTH STATUTORY
AND VOLUNTARY AND HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP
  • Barriers to further Development
  • Accessibility of meetings time and location
  • Different objectives within childrens services
  • Time needed to monitor and evaluate outputs
  • Lack of understanding of each others services
  • Stereotypical image of voluntary services
  • Lack of services and strategic support to work
    with disabled children and young people
  • Clarity needed on which organisation provides
    which service and who to go to for what

18
WE WORK WELL WITH OTHER CHILDRENS SERVICES TO
IMPROVE THINGS FOR THE FUTURE OF CHILDREN AND
YOUNG PEOPLE WITH REGARD TO THE EVERY CHILD
MATTERS OUTCOMES
  • Strengths and Achievements
  • East Riding (council for) Voluntary Youth
    Services
  • The North Bank Forum
  • Humber Wolds Rural Community Council
  • Youth Governance Meetings and other Local
    Management Committees
  • Children and Young Peoples Co-ordination Groups
  • Work with the faith youth sector
  • Work with disabled childrens services strategic
    forum
  • Work with local town and parish councils
  • Work with East Riding of Yorkshire local authority

19
WE WORK WELL WITH OTHER CHILDRENS SERVICES TO
IMPROVE THINGS FOR THE FUTURE OF CHILDREN AND
YOUNG PEOPLE WITH REGARD TO THE EVERY CHILD
MATTERS OUTCOMES
  • Barriers to further Development
  • Accessibility of meetings time and location
  • Lack of understanding of the diverse range of
    skills and resources within the voluntary youth
    sector
  • Lack of volunteers interested in working with
    other services
  • Lack of capacity and support to address the needs
    of the voluntary organisation to enable them to
    work in partnership
  • Too much emphasis placed on the local
    Co-ordination Groups
  • The time and energy needed to work in partnership
    with other services, we are volunteers after all!

20
WE WORK WELL WITH VOLUNTARY UMBRELLA BODIES
  • Strengths and Achievements
  • Useful sources of information events,
    newsletters, e-bulletins
  • Advice and support services
  • Local Development Agency
  • HEROS website (Hull East Riding Options)
  • Partnership co-ordinators (Children, young people
    and families, Older people, carers and BME,
    Physical disabilities
  • Rural Strategic Partnership and Rural Pathfinder
  • Links with Local Authority and Health
  • COMPACT
  • Representation

21
WE WORK WELL WITH VOLUNTARY UMBRELLA BODIES
  • Barriers to Further Development
  • Too many local development agencies
  • Not enough clarity on who does what
  • Information not always available to smaller
    groups
  • Competition between organisations accessing
    funding, rather than working together on joint
    bids
  • Lack of accessible meetings time and venue
  • Not enough information and promotion of what they
    provide as a service

22
GROUP EXERCISE
  • In groups of five, please look at the
    following statements and think of one thing each
    you could note as a Strength Achievement and
    also as a Barrier. After 20 minutes well feed
    back.
  • WE FIT IN WITH THE EVERY CHILD MATTERS OUTCOMES
  • WE WORK WELL WITH ORGANISATIONS BOTH STATUTORY
    AND VOLUNTARY AND HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP
  • WE WORK WELL WITH OTHER CHILDRENS SERVICES TO
    IMPROVE THINGS FOR THE FUTURE OF CHILDREN AND
    YOUNG PEOPLE WITH REGARD TO THE EVERY CHILD
    MATTERS OUTCOMES
  • WE WORK WELL WITH VOLUNTARY UMBRELLA BODIES

23
East Riding (council for) Voluntary Youth Services
  • Detty Tyler
  • ERCVYS
  • Morleys House
  • Morleys Yard
  • Walkergate
  • Beverley
  • East Riding of Yorkshire
  • HU17 9BY
  • Tel 01482 871077/07968 737652
  • Email detty_at_nbforum.org.uk
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