Provider Information Sessions Welcome

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Provider Information Sessions Welcome
Michelle Nicholls
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CAF Briefing
Making CAF user friendly for services
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Common Assessment Framework - CAF

• Everyone who works with children, young people
  and families want them to achieve the best
  outcomes.
• Common Approach
• Assessment of needs and strengths
• Framework for working together

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CAF in Leicestershire

• CAF is being used across Leicestershire, it seems
  to be working
• CAF is not as bureaucratic as once thought it is
  a way of thinking about families that we know
• The CAF thinking can be used as a brainstorm or
  to work collaboratively with a parent or young
  person to better understand their situation

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CAF in Leicestershire

• Since April 2009 Dedicated CAF Team
• 7 CAF Coordinators each locality covered by 1
  or 2 workers
• 2 Strategy Managers with a locality focus
• More flexible approach listening to
  practitioners and making improvements to engage
  families early

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The CAF team will

• advise and support regarding who is involved
• check for existing tier 3 or 4 involvement
• start to help you and the family put together an
  action plan as soon as the CAF assessment is
  received
• make referrals on your behalf where the CAF can
  be used
• in discussion with you and other services decide
  whether a Team Around the Family (TAF) is needed
  or other approach
• support the Lead Professional
• review and monitor.

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The benefits

• whole family, flexible and bespoke approach once
  assessment completed
• reduces stigma and more equitable
• family involvement is central and betters the
  chances of improved outcomes
• improved communication and workers feeling part
  of multi-agency team.

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Leicestershires Children and Young Peoples
Service
Voice, Choice, Safety and Fulfillment
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Children's Services

• The Pathway to Services document has been
  produced to help clarify the roles and
  responsibilities of Specialist Services and early
  help services, aiming to encourage appropriate
  referral according to identification of need and
  service thresholds.
• The paper was developed to clarify and aid
  understanding of social care thresholds for
  intervention.

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Pathways to Services

• The document highlights the move to the language
  of priorities, emphasising the relative urgency
  of the response required by any given situation.
• Therefore a Priority 1 concern indicates that a
  child or young person is at imminent risk of
  significant harm requiring an immediate response
  from specialist services, whereas a Priority 4
  referral is low-risk and needs are likely to be
  met through universal provision.

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Pathways to Services

• This change in language enables Specialist
  Services to define more closely when it is
  appropriate for them to be involved and support
  partner agencies in recognising child protection
  concerns but also enables all agencies in
  considering alternative responses where the level
  of risk is less.
• The document provides guidance around
  appropriate use of the Common Assessment
  Framework (CAF) and gives some indication of
  other services which may be available to support
  a child, young person or family with unmet needs.

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Pathways to Services

• The document highlights the move to the language
  of priorities, emphasising the relative urgency
  of the response required by any given situation.
• Therefore a Priority 1 concern indicates that a
  child or young person is at imminent risk of
  significant harm requiring an immediate response
  from specialist services, whereas a Priority 4
  referral is low-risk and needs are likely to be
  met through universal provision.

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Sure Start Childrens Centre Programme

• Blaby, Oadby and Wigston

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Key contacts
Locality Partnership Group
John Adsley/Tim Brooke Locality Partnership
Co-ordinators
Louise Rossol Childrens Centre Co-ordinator
Kate Gregg Senior Family Outreach Worker
Family Outreach Team Claire Regan Huncote
CC Sally Whitehouse Braunstone Town CC Kerry
Brooke Countesthorpe CC Rachel Bower Countesthorpe
CC
Family Outreach Team Becky Harrison Wigston
Magna CC Chrissy Gent South Wigston CC Abeda
Valli Oadby (Walter Charles)
Business Support Team 0116 2750246 Based at
Huncote Childrens Centre
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Ethos of programme

• prevention
• early intervention
• reach into socially excluded /vulnerable
  communities not accessing mainstream services
• additionality

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Core offer

• child and family health services, ranging from
  ante natal support, breastfeeding support to
  advice on weaning, hygiene, teething, child
  development
• appropriate support and outreach services to
  parents and carers, and children who have been
  identified as in need of them
• advice and guidance on a range of subjects, such
  as parenting, local childcare options and access
  to specialist services for families like speech
  therapy, healthy eating advice or help with
  managing money 
• help for parents to find work or training
  opportunities, using links to local Jobcentre
  Plus offices and training providers
• support to Childminders (a base for a childminder
  network)

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Core offer

• The 6 locality programmes across Leicestershire
  were developed based on local needs, but there
  are some similarities, for example
• breastfeeding Support
• partnership with Health Visiting teams
• speech and Language input
• work with teenage parents
• MIMs
• Change4Life

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Vulnerable or disadvantaged groups

• A key principle of this programme is to target
  services on those in most need

• Government/Core Offer/
• National targets
• teenage parents
• pregnant teenagers
• lone parents
• children in workless households
• children in black and minority ethnic groups
• disabled children
• children with disabled parents
• fathers

• Examples of Locality needs
• children identified as not ready for school
• children affected by DV
• children whose parents have mental ill health
• children and parents/carers who live in isolated
  areas
• children who have erratic and inconsistent
  parenting
• children affected by debt / poverty / obesity

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Levels of work balance

• Universal - Services anyone can attend very
  limited
• Targeted - aimed at specific groups/addresses
  specific needs
• Outreach - vulnerable families requiringsupport
  to access services

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Hierarchy of needs
Higher level of need
Lowest level of need
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What we can do

• individual assessment of need when referrals are
  made each one is considered on an individual
  basis
• work with families where a child is subject to a
  Child Protection plan
• attend Case Conferences, Core Groups, and
  inter-agency meetings

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What we can do cont.

• We are a tier 2 agency that is concerned with
• primary prevention i.e. working with universal
  colleagues to ensure problems do not
  arise/develop in the first place.
• secondary prevention to tackle emerging
  difficulties and problems at the earliest point
  possible to get families back on track.

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What we do not do

• provide childcare
• work with families where there are serious Child
  Protection concerns
• parenting assessments
• supervised contact
• provide services such as Play Stay that are
  already available in the locality by other
  providers for all families.

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Anticipated referrals

• Parents who have additional stressors, but who
  dont meet Social Care criteria
• relationship difficulties
• behaviour issues
• financial/Job stress (redundancy)
• parents who are facing stressors, e.g. if a
  partner is in prison.

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Examples of referrals Early Years Settings may
want to make

• behaviour management
• SALT issues or language delay
• children that may have witnessed domestic abuse
  of any nature
• housing issues
• children who may having eating issues fussy
  eaters or are over weight.

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What you do next..

• ask the parents permission to make contact with
  the Childrens Centre Programme
• complete our Involvement Form
• send to Huncote Childrens Centre (Hub),
  Sportsfield Drive, Huncote, Leicestershire LE9
  4BS.

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Pathways to Services

Leicestershires Children and Young Peoples
Service Pathway to Services document can be
accessed via http//llrchildcare.proceduresonlin
e.com/chapters/contents_lshire.htmlall_ch_pol
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Academies Early Years

• A guide for settings
• on school/college based premises

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Academies

• What is an academy?
• Publicly funded independent schools that provide
  a first class education
• What is different about academies?
• Greater freedoms to innovate and raise standards
• Freedom from local authority control
• The ability to set their own pay and conditions
  for staff
• Freedoms around the delivery of the curriculum
• The ability to change the lengths of terms and
  school days
• How are they funded?
• Directly by the Young Peoples Learning Agency
  (YPLA)

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Academies and Childcare
Who is the Registered Person?
The school governors
Private, Voluntary, Independent (PVI)
Becoming an Academy conversion process
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Registration
The school governors
Private, Voluntary, Independent (PVI)
Parents, staff, other interested
parties receive a letter of consultation. Q
Does the consultation outline the future of the
setting? Action Feedback if necessary on
the consultation.
Parents, staff, other interested
parties receive a letter of consultation. Q
Does the consultation outline the future of the
setting? Q Is there a premises agreement?
Action Feedback if necessary on the consultation
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Application to convert/pre-approval checks
The school governors
Governing body starts the TUPE Process to
transfer staff to the academy. Following
Academy Order Decision to register setting as a
separate legal entity. Application to Ofsted
for registration of setting if under 3s.
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Achieve Funding Agreement
The school governors
Private, Voluntary, Independent (PVI)
TUPE process completed. Academy registered at
Companies House (Company limited by guarantee)
Premises agreement will be carried forward to the
Academy. Academy registered at Companies
House (Company limited by guarantee)
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Academies
- Company Limited by Guarantee
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Pre-opening - Opening
The school governors
Private, Voluntary, Independent (PVI)
Action LCC must be informed of the new bank
account and the new Ofsted registration. A new
FEEE contract will be issued for the new company.
Action Review terms of the premises agreement
for renewal purposes.
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Checklist of milestones actions
The school governors
Private, Voluntary, Independent (PVI)
Action Does the consultation outline the future
of the setting? Feedback on the consultation if
required. Governing body starts the TUPE
Process to transfer staff to the academy.
Following Academy Order decide if setting is
to be a separate legal entity. Action Notify
Ofsted of change to settings registration. TUPE
process completed. Academy (and setting if
required) registered at Companies House Company
limited by guarantee Action Inform LCC of the
new bank account details and the new Ofsted
registration. Action Sign and return the new
FEEE contract.
Action Does the consultation outline the future
of the setting? Action Is there a premises
agreement? Action Feedback on the consultation
if required Premises agreement will be carried
forward to the Academy. Academy registered at
Companies House (Company limited by
guarantee) Action Review terms of the
premises agreement for renewal purposes.
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Further information or guidance?
Contact the Business Development Advisers
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Free Early Education Entitlement New Guidance

• Jane Norman Business Support Team Manager

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• Leicestershires Free Early Education
  Entitlement (FEEE) Guidance, (previously known as
  Nursery Education Funding) is now available on
  website and is based on the newly revised Code of
  Practice.
• Provider Agreements have now been sent out to
  all settings, based on the new guidance -
  hopefully a good many will have been signed and
  returned to us by now.

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• Central Government intended its new guidance to
  be less burdensome.
• The new Code of Practice was written to assist
  local authorities, providers and parents by
  making it clear
• what outcomes different measures are seeking to
  achieve
• what the legal duties are required by legislation
• what local authorities should do to fulfill their
  statutory responsibility and ensure effective
  delivery.

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• The new Code of Practice does not
• prescribe what is down to local authorities to
  determine or
• provide guidance on how settings operate their
  private businesses, including charges for
  provision over and above the free entitlement.

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• We have used the same format on the website for
  our guidance as feedback via our Monitoring
  Support Officers, has been very positive.
• The format we have used is outcome based, the
  same as the Code of Practice and is
• user friendly
• Interactive - you can click on whichever section
  you want to see which should give you immediate
  access
• linked to other related documents such as the
  Inverse Proportion document, Provider Agreement
  and the many sample documents such as the
  Parental Statement Of Undertaking.

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Briefly, the Outcomes are Part A. 1) The Free
Entitlement that all eligible children are able
to take up high quality early education
regardless of their parents ability to pay 2)
Flexibility that children can take up their
FEEE at times that best support their learning
and fits the needs of their parents/carers. 3)
Quality that all children are able to take up
their FEEE in a high quality setting.
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4) Funding the FEEE that funding is fair and
transparent and supports a diverse range of
providers, enabling parents to choose a provider
that best meets the needs of their child. 5)
Delivery in Partnership that LAs and providers
work effectively together to ensure children can
access the FEEE in a variety of settings that
meet the needs of their family
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Part B. 6) Securing Sufficient Childcare that
parents are able to work because childcare places
are available, accessible and affordable,
delivered flexibility at a range of high quality
settings. Part C. 7) Information for
Parents/Carers that comprehensive information
is available for parents about their childs
entitlement to FEEE and what options are
available in their area that meets their needs
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• The main changes in our new FEEE guidance are
• Flexibility
• No session should be longer than 10 hours
• No session should be shorter than 2.5 hours
• Not before 7.00 am or after 7.00 pm
• For those settings such as independents who only
  open for 35 weeks, parents can now use their
  remaining weeks elsewhere.

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• Quality
• Inverse proportional support has changed to
  reflect
• settings receiving a grading of Ofsted Inadequate
  or Quality Category (QC) of 4, will need to
  achieve a QC of 3b or higher when re-assessed
  after receiving 18 hours of support over a period
  of 12 working weeks
• those settings identified as Satisfactory ie 3a,
  b or c, will also need to achieve a QC of 2c or
  higher after receiving 18 hours of support over a
  period of 24 working weeks.

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Quality cont/d For settings who dont achieve
these grades, they will invoke Stage 1 of the
de-validation process and will receive a further
18 hours of support over a further 12 working
weeks, after which if they havent achieved the
desired grade, they will loose their funding.
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• Funding the Free Entitlement
• The Early Years Single Funding Formula continues
  through the autumn 2012 and spring 2013 terms
  using the deprivation supplement based on where
  the setting is situated.
• The new guidance states that from summer term
  2013, this will change to the address of the
  child. This is a mandatory requirement by
  central government.

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• Funding the FEEE cont/d
• The funded hours should always be shown as free
  hours on parent invoices. The rate we pay to
  providers is for you to deliver a service and is
  not intended to be passed on to
  parents/carers. 
• Any childminder applying to be validated to offer
  FEEE, can now do so with a quality category of a
  minimum of 3a, the same as settings offering full
  day care and pre-school groups.

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• Delivery in Partnership
• Sharing the Learning Journey and Transition
  Progress Summary with the childs school is
  particularly important.
• The new FEEE Guidance makes particular reference
  to the Mind the Gap documents, where there are
  six booklets giving top tips in each, to support
  practitioners in helping children to have a
  smooth transition to school.

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Any Questions?
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2 Year Old Funding

• Jo M Fisher

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2 Year Old Funding

• Statutory requirement from Sept. 2013
• 1,100 places. 20 most disadvantaged
• Guidance due out in September
• Funding allocated around Feb. 2013

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Pilot to start in April 2013in two districts

• North West Leicestershire
• Charnwood
• Capacity building for the roll out in September
• Still limited places available for other districts

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NWL

• Wards 18
• Number of children 94
• Number of providers 60
• Outstanding 10
• Good 35
• Satisfactory 10
• Inadequate 1
• Other 4

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Charnwood

• Wards 23
• Number of children 131
• Number of providers 80
• Outstanding 10
• Good 56
• Satisfactory 9
• Other 5

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Criteria Entitlement to free school meals

• Income Support
• Income-based Job Seekers' Allowance
• Income-related Employment and Support Allowance
• Support under Part VI of the Immigration and
  Asylum Act 1999
• The Guaranteed element of State Pension Credit
• Child Tax Credit, provided they are not also
  entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual
  gross income of no more than 16,190, as assessed
  by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs
• Looked after children and local conditions

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Referral Process

• Children centres
• Settings
• Health visitors
• Parents
• We are working on the process and procedures.

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Consultation on process

• 9th October NWL
• 10TH October Charnwood
• Everyone is welcome.

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• Initially contacting providers in NWL and
  Charnwood
• Questionnaire via Inform
• Map out and identify gaps
• Prioritising training to settings in the pilot
  areas
• Email Jo.fisher _at_ leics.gov.uk

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Questions?