KENT CHILDRENS TRUST

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KENT CHILDRENS TRUST

• Rosalind Turner
• Managing Directors Introduction

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Ambition

• achieve the vision for children and yp realise
  the benefits of integration and partnership
• High customer satisfaction
• Excellent outcomes and PIs
• Excellent capacity to improve, sustainability,
  reputation
• The best place for children to grow and learn
• The best place to work
• National leadership

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Initial impressions

• Effective
• Ambitious
• Great foundation
• Fantastic teamwork and leadership over last 7
  months
• Strong partnerships
• Good branding and reputation

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Some questions

• Connectivity across CFE, Childrens Trust, KCC
• Communication and identity
• Process/outcomes bricks and cathedral
• relationship with schools, voice of children and
  yp, parents and carers
• Coherent preventative strategy with resource
  allocation and gap analysis,
• clear access, referral and assessment
• Consistent standards/local priorities
• Culture of a new integrated service
• Workforce and leadership strategy
• Sustainability, future proof

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Challenges ahead

• Financial pressures
• Performance risks CAA NTG/inequalities,skills/NEE
  T, TP,
• mh, yjustice, positive activities
• no notice inspections,
• local priorities and political support
• national policy framework

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Challenge for Childrens Trust

• Effectiveness closing the gap
• Burden on schools/loss of support to schools
• Genuine partnership involvement
• Sustainability
• Contribution to other priorities eg. Economic
  regeneration, skills, localism

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initial proposals

• Review CFE senior management structure
• Monthly performance board at SMT financial
  planning 2010/11
• Communications review
• Develop prevention strategy, review initiatives,
  develop access and assessment routes.
• Review with Childrens Trust Board
• commissioning executive and clear role LCSPs
• Connectivity with economic regeneration strategy
• Appoint independent chair of SCB
• Prepare for no-notice inspections and CAA
• Member induction and new administration

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Key areas of focus

• Safeguarding review
• Transfer functions from LSC
• 14-19 and IYSS
• Childrens Centres service spec, monitoring,
  inspections
• KS2 and 4, schools of concern, primary and
  secondary strategies
• BSF and other capital programmes sustainability,
  transforming learning
• extended schools/community access
• Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Children
• Margate Task Force

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Listening and learning

• Early days
• Visits and meeting you and other partners
• Build on strengths, seize opportunity
• Maintain creativity and innovation
• Develop relationships across the service, the
  Childrens Trust, KCC, the community
• Shape the national agenda
• feedback

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• Accentuate the positive,
• eliminate the negative