Consultation on a Structure for a New Children and Families Department

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Consultation on a Structure for a New Children
and Families Department

• October/November 2004

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Introduction

• Council decision to create a Children Families
  Department
• Commitment to unprecedented levels of involvement
• Consultation on vision, mission and aims
  completed.
• Consultation now beginning on structures and
  shape of department
• Views to be forwarded by November 16
• Council Executive decision on January 18 2005

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Underlying principles

• Key requirements outlined by Chief Executive in
  Report to Council on 29 April 2004
• Consultation and involvement since April 2004 and
  research information informed expansion of the
  principles

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Development of proposals Methodology

• Current service delivery boundaries identified
• Proposed Community Planning boundaries
• Mapping services into neighbourhood based
  management and centrally based management
• Draft grouping of centrally based services
• Structure must allow consistency, yet be
  responsive to local needs and ensure integrated
  working
• Functional models examined but not to be pursued

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Proposed Community Planning Partnership Areas
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Structure for Consultation
Box 1 Director of Children and Families
Box 2 Directorate Support
Box 9 Support for children, young people and
families
Box 11 Quality and Performance
Box 12 Business Support
Box 13 Service Planning
Box 3 2 Strategic Management Areas (with 2 or 3
Neighbourhoods in each)
Box 10 Services for children, young people and
families
Box 4 Neighbour-hood Management
Box 5 Neighbour-hood Management
Box 6 Neighbour-hood Management
Box 7 Neighbour-hood Management
Box 8 Neighbour-hood Management
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THE PROPOSALS Neighbourhood Management

• Five Neighbourhoods One Neighbourhood Manager
  for each neighbourhood area integration,
  co-ordination and operational role
• Two Strategic Managers (North South) members
  of Senior management Team (SMT)
• Arguments for
• Consistency across neighbourhoods and strategic
  overview
• More strategically effective SMT
• Flexibility to adapt to changing needs across
  areas
• Effective links with planned NHS structures

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THE PROPOSALS Neighbourhood Management

• Alternative arrangement No strategic area
  managers
• Arguments for
• Neighbourhood Managers part of SMT
• Neighbourhood managers fully involved in strategy
  
• Neighbourhood managers report directly to
  Director
• The Change Support Group would like your views.

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PROPOSED NEIGHBOURHOOD MANAGEMENT STAGE 1 MODEL
NEIGHBOURHOOD MANAGEMENT (Boxes 4 to 8 in Diagram
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Extended list of services and functions delivered
at Neighbourhood Management level services
managed centrally in liaison with local teams

UNIVERSAL TARGETED/REFERRAL
SERVICES
BASED SERVICES

• Neighbourhood liaison
• Unit/Establishment management oversight
• Practice teams
• Schools
• Child and Family Centres
• Outreach work by Young People Centres
• Community Centres
• Other centres
• Community Education services delivered at
  community level e.g. family learning, community
  capacity building etc.
• Early Years local delivery
• Unit/Establishment administration
• Access/ Duty (function of Practice Teams)
  Implementation of co-ordinated planning, and
  quality assurance at local level

• Working Together
• Education Welfare Service
• Child Protection
• Support and monitoring of voluntary organisations
• Out of school care
• Youth clubs/projects
• Youth participation
• Local holiday programmes
• Community access to ICT
• Community capacity building
• Support to community planning partnerships
• Community based adult learning, including the
  delivery of the national literacies programme and
  family learning
• Support and monitoring of Multi agency
  professional assessments
• Psychological Services
• -Inclusion/accessibility Special Education Needs
  (SEN) neighbourhood support officers

Pre-five Nursery care and education
Pre-five Targeted 0-3 Child and Family Centres
Practice Team(s) Assessment Case management
for - Child protection - Looked after Children -
Children with disabilities
Schools Secondary Primary
Post-school Transitional programmes and
services Adult learning Youth Work
Other support services e.g. Working Together
Certain Pupil Support Services Young
Peoples Centres Outreach work by Young
Peoples Centres Youth work in schools Adult
literacies/ numeracy
Community Education Community Centres Youth
Clubs and projects Capacity Building
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THE PROPOSALS Neighbourhood Services

• List of services proposed at neighbourhood level
• Services to be delivered in new model from April
  2005 but may see academic year services being
  delivered in new model from July interim
  management arrangements would be needed.
• Further development of local integration local
  decisions to meet local need.
• The Change Support Group want your views on
• Services listed
• Professional management and accountability
• Issues for further localisation/integration

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THE PROPOSALS Centrally Managed Services

• Suggested groupings of centrally managed services
  are provided on slide 6
• Services based on referral
• Services not based on referral
• Two groups/sections or combined into one?
• Quality and Performance section/group
• Business support
• Strategic planning, commissioning, partnership
  planning, development
• Two groups/sections or combined into one?

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THE PROPOSALS Allocation of Services

• Current services listed under the five
  groups/sections in Table 1
• Need to streamline/ co-ordinate/ avoid
  duplication
• Important part of next stage of the work
• Your views needed on initial allocation of
  services.

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THE PROPOSALS Potential Neighbourhoods

• Five neighbourhoods based on new community
  planning partnerships
• Assessment of Social Work Team Practice office
  locations
• Assessment of Secondary School building locations
• Assessment of Practice Team areas
• Assessment of Education cluster boundaries
• Assessment of the overlap of Education cluster
  areas and Practice Team areas
• Consideration of school pupil movements

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THE PROPOSALS Potential Neighbourhoods

• Provisional grouping of Education clusters and
  Social Work Practice Team areas (Slide 15)
• Each neighbourhood also has range of other
  facilities, e.g. Community Centres, Child
  Family Centres
• Four secondary schools not physically located in
  the allocated neighbourhood
• Denominational clusters
• Ongoing task to analyse changing local needs, to
  ensure matching staff and service delivery
  early audit needed
• Your views are wanted on these proposals

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Table 2 Initial Draft of Potential Neighbourhoods
The following re-allocations are made on the
basis of the relationship of catchment area to
the five proposed groupings of community planning
partnership areas (local governance arrangements)
and significant school population movements
between school catchments in the above
table Leith allocated to North from East.
2. Boroughmuir allocated to S from SW. 3.
Tynecastle and Forrester from SW to W
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Building the new Department
BUILDING BLOCK
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Next Steps in Consultation

• Consultation ends Tuesday 16 November
• Final report to Council Executive on 18 January
  2005 for decision