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"Coming together is a beginning.Keeping together
is progress.Working together is success. (Henry
Ford)
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You are very welcome! Chair - Hilary Ellam Head
of Integrated Working
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Live Case Study 1 - Jessica

• Mum in Northumberland
• Lee has ADHD and ODD - 13yrs old
• In and out of school for while
• Jessica had to leave work
• CAF initiated by family support worker
• Family support worker became LP
• School engaged in process
• Lee back at school full time
• Jessica back to work

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Available from

• CWDC Share! Joining the Pieces 08/09 newsletters
  on CWDC Website now!
• Magazine and DVD produced March 2009

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Live Case Study 2 - Simon

• A good student
• Violent and aggressive triggered CAF
• School achievement Co-ordinator LP
• CAF identified issues for the family
• Access to a small budget through BHLP pilot
• Budget used for
• Eight week anger management course
• New clothes for arranged work placement
• Orthodontist work and diet plan
• Paint and carpet

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Live Case Study 2 - Simon

• improved self esteem Simon was able to enter
  the work place as an equal to the other workers.
  He is dressed the same and able to socialise with
  them at lunch time. Simon is having to organise
  his work so that he does not get behind. He is
  taking an interest in doing well at school so
  that he can use his qualifications to get a good
  job." Achievement coordinator

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Available from

• Stories from schools ECM Website BHLP page
• www.everychildmatters.gov.uk

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Key Note Deirdre Quill - Director
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One vision, one workforce - Diversity of
Contribution

• CWDC exists to improve the lives of children,
  young people their families and carers by
  ensuring all people working with them have the
  best possible training, qualifications, support
  and advice.
• Integrated working is when everyone supporting
  children and young people works together
  effectively to put the child at the centre, meet
  their needs and improve their lives.
• Its easy to talk about and challenging to
  implement

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Present policy context

• Integrated working has been a high priority in
  last 12 months.
• New Government Department DCSF
• New Secretary of State for Children Ed Balls
• The Childrens Plan
• our aspirations for children is a world class
  workforce able to provide highly personalised
  support.
• providing identification and early intervention
  for all children and young people who need
  additional help
• Building Brighter Futures Next Steps for the
  Childrens Workforce

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Future policy context

• And is likely to remain a high priority in the
  future.
• The Expert group
• The Childrens Workforce 2020 Strategy
• The Childrens Plan one year later.
• Integrated working is critical for effective
  safeguarding
• of children. Working well together better
  protects
• children.
• Lord Laming Enquiry December 2008
• New legislation to strengthen Childrens Trust
  Boards Nov 2008

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CWDCs role and remit

• Oct 06 DCSF transferred responsibility for the
  implementation not policy for
• Common Assessment Framework
• Role of Lead Professional
• Information sharing
• Multi agency working
• Championing Children
• Common Core (ECM)
• Maintenance and review of guidance, training
• packages, factsheets and emerging practice.

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IW communications campaign
2008-09 CWDC undertook a communications
campaign to raise awareness of the integrated
working tools and guidance and to encourage their
take up across local areas.
Sign up at www.integratedworking.com
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Emerging practice
Its a jigsaw with an unfinished edge
All communications supported by CWDC Share!
Share! is in second year of delivery and seeks
to raise awareness of real life integrated
working challenges and success stories. This
year nine new sites focussing on supervision,
budget holding lead professional and culture
change.
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Significant progress in integrated working

• Over the last year we have seen a move to more
  embedded integrated working.
• From enthusiasm to reality
• From islands of good practice towards whole
  system change
• From reorganisation towards developing multi
  agency services around children, young people and
  families.
• Team around the child physical and virtual
• No one size 58 models, research into TAC

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On the ground CAF

• Majority of respondents successfully
  implemented or on their way
• Evidence of
• reduced duplication in assessments
• earlier and better support
• greater co-operation between agencies
• Seeds of services being reshaped as consequence
  of CAF completed by others

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On the ground Lead Professional

• Majority of respondents successfully
  implemented or on their way
• Evidence of
• More professionals taking on the role
• Wider workforce involvement
• Local protocols for selection
• Use of supervision models
• Confusion with Key Worker role

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On the ground Information Sharing

• Majority of respondents successfully
  implemented or on their way
• Managers report evidence of
• practitioners more willing to use their
  professional judgement
• increased trust between practitioners
• This is further supported by the new Information
• Sharing Guidance for managers and practitioners
• launched in October 2008

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Support from CWDC for integrated working

• CWDC is providing 9.5 million to local areas to
  support implementing integrated working.
• This is made up of a grant 45 50 K for each
  local area for the next three years to support
  workforce reform / integrated working
• Including 525,000 to support participation of
  children young people
• 20 30 K each local area for three years, from
  2007 to support private third sector engagement
  in agenda (WSSP)
• The One Childrens Workforce Tool and the
  Integrated Working Self Assessment Tool

When there are children involved its everyones
business
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What is the One Childrens Workforce Framework?

• A framework which describes what a reformed
  workforce looks like at local level
• A rainbow with seven arcs based around the Every
  Child Matters Outcomes which describe the main
  elements of workforce reform
• Identifies the characteristics of a fragmented
  and a reformed workforce within each arc
• Identifies what success looks like from the
  perspectives of a child, a team, a service and a
  childrens trust

http//onechildrensworkforce.cwdcouncil.org.uk
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Integrated working will underpin the One
Childrens Workforce Framework and Tool
The future the One Childrens Workforce Framework
Trial phase with Childrens Trust
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Why workforce..?
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Integrated Working
www.integratedworking.com integratedworking_at_cwdcou
ncil.org.uk
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Workshop information

• ONE Common Assessment Framework, including e-CAF
  - Main Room
• TWO Lead Professional, including budget holding
  lead professional Park Room
• THREE Information Sharing Surrey Room
• FOUR Multi-agency Working Kent Room
• FIVE Leadership and Management Middlesex Room
• SIX Common core of skills and knowledge,
  including links to Integrated Qualifications
  Framework Sussex Room

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"Coming together is a beginning.Keeping together
is progress.Working together is success. (Henry
Ford)
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Live Case Study 3 - Stacey

• Left home at sixteen
• On the streets for six months
• Approached several agencies
• Youth reach made contact through police
• Initiated CAF
• Arranged TAC
• Re-housed back to college
• Now works for Youth Reach

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Live Case study 3 - Stacey

• from the perspective of being a worker as well
  as someone on the receiving end of the service,
  Id say information sharing is vital!

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Available from

• CWDC Share! 08/09 Sharing the Journey
• Copies here today and available from CWDC
• integratedworking_at_cwdcouncil.org.uk

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Workshop information

• ONE Common Assessment Framework, including e-CAF
  - Main Room
• TWO Lead Professional, including budget holding
  lead professional Park Room
• THREE Information Sharing Surrey Room
• FOUR Multi-agency Working Kent Room
• FIVE Leadership and Management Middlesex Room
• SIX Common core of skills and knowledge,
  including links to Integrated Qualifications
  Framework Sussex Room

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Table Discussion
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The Panel Hilary Ellam Integrated working
CWDC Mary Galashan Information Sharing, Contact
Point, eCAF Leslie Goodman Integrated working
DCSF Roger Bushell Leadership and Management
CWDC
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Integrated Working

• Alone we can do so little together we can do so
  much.
• Helen Keller
• Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 June 1, 1968)
  was an author, activist
• and lecturer. She was the first deaf and blind
  person to graduate from
• college.