WELCOME to the Services for Children and Young People Managers

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WELCOMEto theServices for Children and Young
People Managers Planning Review Day 23rd
May 2007
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DARREN SHAW Director of Services for Children
and Young People
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January Survey Saidgtgtgt

• Intro/feedback 34/3
• Business plan devt 30/7
• Contribution to business plan 28/4/4
• Service reviews update 23/3/2
• Networking activity 34/2/1

• Integrated working 30/4/1
• Risk management 26/3/8
• JAR 36
• QA 29/4
• Conclusion 28
• Enjoy? 26/1

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Today
Key themes 2007-08 Bus Plan Working with
schools Service reviews updates JAR Staff
Survey Group Director Sharing best practice
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Year end achievements
School Attendance Launch of Outreach service New
Hospital Education Service Timeliness of
Assessments (Statements/ IAs / CAs) Outcomes for
LAC Gloucestershires profile
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CYPP Aims
To continue to improve ________ for ___ _______
___ _____ _______ Reduce _______ between ____
________ for most and ____ ________ for
some Reshape services to ensure ___ ______ ___ of
high quality _________, ________ and ___________
provision
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CYPP Aims
To continue to improve outcomes for all
CYP Reduce the gap between good outcomes for most
and poor outcomes for some Reshape services to
ensure the right mix of high quality universal,
targeted and specialist provision
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Change objectives
Give CYP a ______ Improve and simplify ______ to
services Develop a coherent pattern of better
______ Improve ______ of universal, targeted and
specialist services Maximise the impact of
_________
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SCYP Priorities

• EHWB
• Assessments
• Family Support Services (BHLP)
• Co-ordn CYPwD
• SEN strategy
• Placements
• Behaviour
• Care matters

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Beyond SCYP
Change programme CYPSP GCC Integrated working /
area based commissioning
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From here to JAR-ternity
Quality of delivery Evidence through
records Demonstrating impact
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TIM BROWNE Head of Children and Young Peoples
Services (Cheltenham and Tewkesbury)
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Priorities

• CYP live in safe communities and feel safe
• All CYP are supported to achieve their potential
• CYP are supported by a highly effective
  workforce

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Raise Attendance, Raise Childrens Chances!
What does Good attendance mean?
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• Do you know what your child's attendance is?
• Do you know what it means?
• ?

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This is Bethany. She is in Year 7 and has 90
attendance.

• Is that good?
• What does this mean?

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Bethany thinks this is pretty good, so do her
parents. Are they right?

• 90 attendance ½ day missed every week!!
• (Would your boss like you to be off work this
  much??). Thats practically part time!

Mon Tue Wed Wed Thur Fri
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Absent half a day every week
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90 attendance over 5 years of secondary school.

• ½ a school year missed!

Sept July Sept July Sept July Sept July Sept July Sept July Sept July Sept July Sept July Sept July Sept July
Y7
Y8
Y9
Y10
Y11
½ a year absent from school
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Lets look a little closer..
1 school year at 90 attendance 4 whole weeks
of lessons MISSED!!!
38 school weeks
Sept July Sept July Sept July
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Absent for 4 weeks
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What impact might this have on Bethanys life?
Research suggests that 17 missed school days a
year GCSE grade DROP in achievement. (DfES) The
greater the attendance the greater the
achievement.
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Secondary School Key Stage 4 Performance by
Average Absence Sessions 2003/4
achieving any qualification
5 or more grades A-C (Level 2 threshold)
100
80
60
15-y-o achieving
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20
0
Less than 15 (7.5 days)
15-20 (7.5 to 10 days)
20-25 (10 to 12.5 days)
25-30 (12.5 to 15 days)
30-35 (15 to 17.5 days)
35-40 (17.5 to 20 days)
Over 40 (20 days)
Average No. of Sessions Absence per Pupil 2003/4
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What could Bethanys potential earnings look like?
Graduate degree 15.01 per hour

• A levels 10.25 per hour

GCSEs 9.02 per hour.
no qualifications 7.44 per hour.
Potential Earnings average per hour
Qualifications
What do you want for your child?
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So 90 is not as good as it first seemed.
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Attend and Achieve!

• If a school can improve attendance by 1, they
  will see a 5-6 improvement in attainment.
  (Department for Education and Skills)
• By ensuring attendance remains above 95, will
  allow children and young people to achieve their
  potential.

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Attendance Strategy

• Data
• Tackling key threats
• Community 360 degree responsibility
• Schools targeted input and support
• Young people consultation and celebration
• Beyond attendance data missing children

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SUE BUTCHER Head of Children and Young Peoples
Services (Stroud/Cotswold)
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• Key themes for 2007/08
• Initial and Core Assessments
• Emotional Health and Wellbeing
• Domestic Abuse
• Family Support Service Review
• (phases 1 and 2)
• Out of Hours Services
• Integrated Childrens System (ICS)
• File Audits
• Budget Holding Lead Professional

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STEWART KING

• Head of Specialist Services

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• Key Themes for 2007/8
• Children and Young People with Disabilities
• SEN Strategy
• Commissioning Strategy Childrens
• Placements
• Assessment of need for CYPD and SEN
• Review Statementing Strategy and SEN
• funding

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• Enabling mainstream provides all services
• Engaging effectively with parents
• Bedding in structural and cultural change
• Playing an active role in major cross-service
  development e.g.
• Integrated working
• BHLP
• Childrens centers
• Extended services
• Childcare
• Improving record-keeping/files

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CHRIS SANDS Head of Children and Young Peoples
Services (Forest and Gloucester)
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• Key Themes for 2007/08
• Further improving outcomes
• Looked after Children and Young People
• Family Intervention Project
• Educational Psychology Service
• Behaviour Support Service
• Unaccompanied Asylum Seekers

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Working with Schools Mary Holland Senior
Assistant Education Officer
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Children Young People with Disabilities Alison
Cathles Service Manager CYPwD/SEN
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• You dont understand what its like improving
  outcomes for children and young people with
  disabilities

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Disabled children/young people are

• 3 to 4 times more likely to be abused
• 4 to 6 times more likely to have mental
  ill-health
• More likely to grow up in residential placements
• 13 times more likely to be excluded from school
• 2 times as likely to be NEET at the age of 16
• 55 grow up in families living in poverty or on
  its margins

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What else do we know?

• There has been a significant increase in the
  prevalence of severe disability and complex need
  over the past 10 years
• Children under 16 are the fastest growing
  disability age group
• Approximately 5000 children in Gloucestershire?
• Locally the number of children and young people
  with profound and multiple learning disability
  increased by over 106 between 2001 and 2006

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What do parents young people tell us?

• Families have to fight to get services
• Services, when they get them, are mostly good
• Young people and their families want to be
  included in their communities and local
  activities but often are not
• Short term breaks are very important and very
  scarce
• Families want more advice and information and
  much better support moving into adult life
• Young people and parents want more choice and
  more control and to be listened to

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What we know about local (and national) services

• Specialist services are under a lot of pressure
  from increasing demand
• Mainstream/universal services are struggling to
  support more disabled children and need more
  support from specialist services
• Gaps include support for young people with LD or
  ASD and challenging behaviour specialist health
  service support for young people with LD
• National estimate services under funded by up to
  70

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The way forward

• Inclusion
• Partnership with young people and parents to
  commission services and develop support
• Self-directed support
• Integrated working focused on closing the gap in
  terms of outcomes.

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Behaviour Workstream Keith Elliott Behaviour
Support Manager
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• Behaviour Workstream
• Behaviour Support Services
• EBD Special Schools
• Early Intervention
• GRS

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Behaviour Workstream ProposalsBehaviour support
services

• Amalgamate services
• Improve access
• Improve access to training
• Exclusion of vulnerable children and young people

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EBD Special Schools

• Improve the quality of assessment
• Develop holistic support
• Improve the continuum of provision
• Early Intervention
• Increase the training capacity

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Eugene OKane Head of Youth Support Services
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Integrated Youth Supportin Gloucestershire
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Youth Matters

• Reforms to Information, Advice and Guidance
• Places to Go, Things to Do the Youth Offer
• Volunteering and Active Citizenship
• Targeted Youth Support
• All informed and developed in partnership with
  young people

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Youth Support Projects

• IAG lead by Andrew Pugh (Connexions).
  Informed by 14-19 Education reforms (IAG for
  learning) and Youth Matters (access to IAG)
• Youth Offer lead by Terry Pullen (YS).
  Statutory duty on LA to provide positive
  activities for young people aged 13-19. A key
  aspect is consultation on
• Existing provision
• Where are the gaps
• Barriers to access
• Addressing the issues raised

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Youth Support Projects

• Volunteering lead by Sarah Thompson (YG). To
  establish a partnership of providers for youth
  volunteering. Capacity building and improve
  accreditation with established organisation and
  the new V programme.
• Targeted Youth Support lead by Frances Morgan
  (Connexions) and Helen Jones (YS). Two pilots
• Cotswold, integrated on a network basis
• Gloucester, integrated team under a single
  management arrangement

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Integrated Youth Support Services

• Will deliver the Youth Matters ambitions
• Is about providing services to all young people
  according to need
• Connexions transition funding to the Local
  Authority
• Tendering process for external provider
• Integrated planning, commissioning and delivery
  of services
• Development of a Youth PSA

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Youth PSA

• Vision All Young People make a successful
  transition to
• adulthood, by achieving the 5
  outcomes.
• Measured by
• Under 18 Conception Rate
• 16 and 17 year olds NEET
• Participation in Positive Activities
• Reducing first time entrants to the criminal
  justice system
• Increasing the number of young people moving and
  staying out of substance related harm.

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Joint Area Review (JAR) Update Darren Shaw
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• What have you done this week to prepare for the
  JAR?

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• How much do you know about-
• Children and Young Peoples Plan
• Self-evaluation process
• JAR Priorities focus areas
• Links to Corporate Performance Assessment

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• What do you need to being doing in the next 18
  weeks?

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• Cold Calling Exercise
• Overall positive responses about JAR
• Knowledge about case-tracking requirements
• Concerns about matches between paper and
  electronic and accuracy of older files
• Good awareness about Information Sharing
• Just keep cascading information to ALL your staff

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• CURRENT CASETRACKING ACTIVITY
• Long-list of 50 cases for each focus area being
  developed by multi-agency teams
• 150 cases will then be circulated amongst all
  agencies, including all SCYP Managers
• 6th June final list will be agreed and cascaded
• 30 Safeguarding
• 35 Looked After Children
• 35 Learning Difficulty and/or Disability
• 100 cases to be sent to Inspectors early July

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• Lead Professional will need to be identified for
  each case
• 23rd July Set up meeting with Inspectors
• 10 cases will be known
• 4 LAC
• 4 LDD
• 2 Safeguarding

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• www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/jar
• Key documents to discuss with your teams-
• JAR Arrangements Summary
• Case-Tracking Documentation
• Grade Descriptors

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Staff Survey Results key areas for
discussion Chris Sands
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Staff Survey 2006

• 3000 responses across County Council
• 656 responses from CYPD (31 of Directorate)

• Best performing sections
• Equal opportunities Diversity 81
• PAR and Training 75
• Job satisfaction 70

• Least positive sections
• The way we do things 57
• Communication 58
• Line management support 67

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Staff Survey 2006

• Best performing questions
• Opportunity to contribute to Team BP 57
  (43)
• Seen BP for Directorate 59 (50)
• Know what CYPD is trying to achieve 74 (66)
• How good is the Directorate Newsletter 46 (39)
• Acting on feedback from customers 63 (56)

• Least positive questions
• Meeting requirements of job
  50 (58)
• Receiving support during change 34
  (40)
• Work/home life balance 61 (66)
• Have a PAR 86 (87)
• Manager communicates effectively 72 (72)

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• Four themes identified by SCYPMT to address
  during this coming year
• Working hours
• Visibility of
  senior management
• Customer service
• Communications

Over to you.
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Jo Davidson Group Director Children Young People
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Helping Every ChildThrive and Reachtheir
Potential
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Oh what a year

• scale
• Top 7
• one team, one focus
• quality
• Empowering Businesslike Valuing Collaborative

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Our place, our future

• Customers - needs, engagement feedback
• Improvements - informed analysis, evaluation and
  learning
• Leadership influence
• Working together, improving the quality of life
  for Gloucestershire people

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Real quality

• whats it really like if you are me?
• true integration
• passionate about people and their outcomes
• honest and self-critical

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When the Inspectors callInvestigations
LAC
LDD
Safeguarding
Emotional Well being?
Substance Misuse?
Early Years?
14-19?
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Helping Every ChildThrive and Reachtheir
Potential
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Sharing Best Practice Case Studies Liz
Farley Secondary Behaviour Management Team
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NETWORKING