Every Child Matters: Change for Children

Michael BlakeyChange for Children Partnership

Extended Schools Conference4th March 2005

Every Child Matters: Change for Children

• How did we get to where we are?

•What are the drivers?

•What is the national agenda?

• How is our local change programme developing?

Every Child Matters – Five Aims

Enjoying and Achieving

Making A Positive Contribution

Being Healthy

Economic Well-being

Staying Safe

Every Child Matters…the vision

Radical improvement in opportunities and outcomes for children, driven by

whole-system reform of the delivery of children’s services.

Every Child Matters- National Progress So Far

• Legislative foundation: the Children Act 2004

• Outcomes Framework• Cross-government change programme• Building a national framework for 150

local change programmes• 35 Children’s Trust Pilots

Children Act 2004Establishing –• Children’s Commissioner• Duty to cooperate• Duty to safeguard and promote welfare of children• Duty to set up Local Safeguarding Children Boards• Provision for indexes or databases to enable better

sharing of information• Single statutory Children and Young People’s Plan • Director / Lead Member for Children’s Services • Joint Inspection Framework / Joint Area Reviews

Duty to cooperate

• The new duties in section 10 of the Children Act 2004 require local authorities and their ‘relevant partners’ to cooperate to improve children’s wellbeing: this is defined as the five outcomes. Local authorities must take a lead in making arrangements to promote cooperation between local agencies whose work impacts on children within the authority’s area. The relevant partners must cooperate with the authority in its making of those arrangements

Driving Change – Children’s Trusts

• Arrangements for working together to improve outcomes for all children and young people through:

• front line staff providing integrated services, including Children’s Centres and Extended Schools

• the processes to support these services• the planning which sets their direction• the governance arrangements which sustain

them

The Children’s Trust in action

Outcomesfor children & young people

Change for Children in Cumbria

Change for Children

Partnership Board

Change for ChildrenPartnership (CfCP)

Governance

e.g.CCC Cabinet

ConnexionsBoard

Children and Young People’s Strategic

Partnership

Children & Young People

StrategicHealth

Authority

Director of Education

Director of Social

Services

Conservative Member

Labour Member

Liberal Democrat Member

Chair of Connexions

Cumbria

Voluntary Sector

Chief Executives

of three Hospital Trusts *

Chief Executives of

North Cumbria & Morecambe Bay PCTs

Chief ExecutiveCumbria County Council

Board

* A representative from each of –

North Cumbria Mental Health & Learning Disabilities NHS

Morecambe Bay Hospital Trust

North Cumbria Acute Hospital Trust

Change for Children Partnership….a growing partnership

ConnexionsVoluntary Sector

Social Service

Strategic Health Authority

District/Borough Councils

Children’s Fund

Local Sure Start ProgrammesEducation,

including Cumbria Sure Start

Cumbria County Council Corporate Centre

Morecambe Bay PrimaryCare Trust

North Cumbria PrimaryCare Trust

Youth Offending Team

North Cumbria Mental Health & Learning Disabilities Trust

North Cumbria Acute Hospital Trust

SchoolsMorecambe Bay Hospital Trust

Learning & Skills Council

Cumbria Constabulary

WiderChange for

Children Partnership

Co-locatedCore Team

Change for Children Partnership Board

Information Sharing &

Assessment

ISA

The Voice of Children &

Young People, Families &

Carers

How do I find out more?

• Every Child Matters website www.everychildmatters.gov.uk

Every Child Matters: Change for Children