WELCOMEto the

Services for Children and Young People

Managers’ Planning & Review Day

23rd May 2007

DARREN SHAW

Director of Services for Children and Young People

January – Survey Said>>>

• 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• Q&A =29/4• Conclusion =28• Enjoy? =26/1

TodayKey themes – 2007-08 Bus Plan

Working with schoolsService reviews updates

JARStaff Survey

Group DirectorSharing best practice

Year end achievementsSchool Attendance

Launch of Outreach service

New Hospital Education Service

Timeliness of Assessments (Statements/ IAs / CAs)

Outcomes for LAC

Gloucestershire’s profile

CYPP AimsTo continue to improve ________ for ___

_______ ___ _____ _______Reduce _______ between ____

________ for most and ____ ________ for some

Reshape services to ensure ___ ______ ___ of high quality _________,

________ and ___________ provision

CYPP AimsTo continue to improve outcomes for all

CYPReduce the gap between good outcomes

for most and poor outcomes for someReshape services to ensure the right mix

of high quality universal, targeted and specialist provision

Change objectivesGive CYP a ______

Improve and simplify ______ to services

Develop a coherent pattern of better ______

Improve ______ of universal, targeted and specialist services

Maximise the impact of _________

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

Beyond SCYP…

Change programme – CYPSP

GCC

Integrated working / area based commissioning

From here to JAR-ternity…

Quality of delivery

Evidence through records

Demonstrating impact

TIM BROWNE

Head of Children and Young People’s

Services(Cheltenham and

Tewkesbury)

Priorities

• C&YP live in safe communities and feel safe

• All C&YP are supported to achieve their potential

• C&YP are supported by a highly effective workforce

Raise Attendance, Raise Children’s Chances!

What does “Good attendance” mean?

• Do you know what your child's attendance is?

• Do you know what it means?

?

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

• Is that good?

• What does this mean?

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??). That’s practically part time!

Mon Tue Wed Thur Fri

?

Absent half a day every week

90% attendance over 5 years of secondary school….

= ½ a school year missed!

Sept July

Y7

Y8

Y9

Y10

Y11

½ a year absent ½ a year absent from schoolfrom school

Lets look a little closer…..

1 school year at 90% attendance = 4 whole weeks of lessons MISSED!!!

38 school weeks

Sept July

?

Absent for 4 weeks

Research suggests that 17 missed school days a year = GCSE grade

DROP in achievement. (DfES)

The greater the attendance the greater the achievement.

What impact might this have on Bethany’s life……?

Secondary School Key Stage 4 Performance by Average Absence Sessions 2003/4

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20

40

60

80

100

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

% 5 or more grades A-C (Level 2 threshold)

% achieving any qualification

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What could Bethany’s potential earnings look like?

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no qualificationsno qualifications

£7.44 per £7.44 per hourhour..

GCSE’s GCSE’s

£9.02 £9.02 per per hour.hour.

A levelsA levels

£10.25 £10.25 per per hourhour

Graduate degree

£15.01 £15.01 per hourper hour

What do you want for your child?What do you want for your child?

So 90% is not as good as it first seemed.

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.

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’

SUE BUTCHER

Head of Children and Young People’s

Services(Stroud/Cotswold)

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 Children’s System (ICS)• File Audits• Budget Holding Lead Professional

STEWART KING

Head of Specialist Services

Key Themes for 2007/8

• Children and Young People with Disabilities • SEN Strategy• Commissioning Strategy – Children’s

Placements• Assessment of need for CYPD and SEN• Review Statementing Strategy and SEN

funding

• 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• Children’s centers• Extended services• Childcare • Improving record-keeping/files

CHRIS SANDS

Head of Children and Young People’s

Services

(Forest and Gloucester)

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

Working with Schools

Mary Holland

Senior Assistant Education Officer

Children & Young People with Disabilities

Alison Cathles

Service Manager CYPwD/SEN

“You don’t understand what it’s like”: improving

outcomes for children and young people with

disabilities

• 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

Disabled children/young people are:

• 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

What else do we know?

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

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%

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.

Behaviour Workstream

Keith Elliott

Behaviour Support Manager

Behaviour Workstream

• Behaviour Support Services

• EBD Special Schools

• Early Intervention

• GRS

Behaviour Workstream Proposals

Behaviour support services:• Amalgamate services

• Improve access

• Improve access to training

• Exclusion of vulnerable children and young people

• Improve the quality of assessment

• Develop holistic support

• Improve the continuum of provision

Early Intervention:

• Increase the training capacity

EBD Special Schools:

Eugene O’Kane

Head of Youth Support Services

Integrated Youth Supportin Gloucestershire

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

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

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

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’

Youth PSAVision: All Young People make a successful transition to adulthood, by achieving the 5 outcomes. Measured by:

1. Under 18 Conception Rate

2. 16 and 17 year olds NEET

3. Participation in Positive Activities

4. Reducing first time entrants to the criminal justice system

5. Increasing the number of young people moving and staying out of

substance related harm.

Joint Area Review (JAR) Update

Darren Shaw

What have you done this week to

prepare for the JAR?

How much do you know about:-• Children and Young People’s Plan

• Self-evaluation process

• JAR Priorities & focus areas

• Links to Corporate Performance Assessment

What do you need to being doing in the

next 18 weeks?

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

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

• 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

www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/jar

Key documents to discuss with your teams:-

• JAR Arrangements Summary• Case-Tracking Documentation• Grade Descriptors

Staff Survey Results – key areas for discussion

Chris Sands

Staff Survey 2006

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%

•3000 responses across County Council

•656 responses from CYPD (31% of Directorate)

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)

Four themes identified by SCYPMT to address during this coming year:

• Working hours

• Visibility of senior management

• Customer service

• Communications

Over to you…………………….

Jo Davidson

Group Director

Children & Young People

Helping Every ChildThrive and Reach

their Potential

Oh what a year …

• scale• Top 7• one team, one focus • quality

Empowering Businesslike Valuing Collaborative

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

Real quality

• what’s it really like if you are me?• true integration• passionate about people and their

outcomes• honest and self-critical

LAC LDD

Safeguarding

Emotional

Well being?Substance Misuse?

14-19?Early

Years?

When the Inspectors callInvestigations

Helping Every ChildThrive and Reach

their Potential

Sharing Best Practice – Case Studies

Liz Farley

Secondary Behaviour Management Team

NETWORKING