CiN Census 2001

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CiN Census 2001

• Prior to June 2001
• 11 district based Family Support Teams
• Specialist Services
• CwD, Long Term Needs, Permanency, YSS
• June to Sept 2001
• 5 area clusters with Assessment Team, Family
  Centre Childrens Team
• Specialist Services unchanged

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Surrey County CouncilCiN Census 2001

• Took place 8-14 October 2001
• First results published April 2002
• Data by Area Cluster and Specialist Service
• 24 Teams amalgamated into 9 groups
• Distributed to managers at all levels County
  Councillors
• Presentation to support staff managers

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Surrey County CouncilData by Area Cluster
report

• Custom pre-written queries
• Graphical representations of data
• CiN receiving service ethnicity
• Costs of services
• Recorded child time
• Age group and ethnicity of all CiN

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CSF/I Child Time Hours

• 3,993 hours
• 60 time spent on 85 of CiN
• N1 Abuse Neglect 30 CSF/I time
• N5 Family Dysfunction 24 CSF/I time

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CSF/I Child Time Questions

• East West46 N115 N5
• North23 N143 N5
• Due to practice variations?

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Using the CiN Census Data in Childrens Service

• Evaluate effectiveness of systems Workload
  Management Assessment Team caseloads Distribut
  ion of Children with Disabilities
• Development of services Sure Start Preventing
  Exclusion group Childrens Fund application

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Workload Management

• Monthly projection of workload
• Caseload points per child CiN 1, LAC/CPR
  1.5Core Assessment 6
• Extra points pro-rata for additional time needed
  for tasks.
• SSW 36-40 points new SW 30 points

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Workload Management Child Time Comparison

• Caseload points in range 21-39
• Childtime hours in range 16-37
• Good correlation for most SWs
• Stable caseloads in Childrens Team

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Assessment Team Caseloads

• Cases referred in Census week
• Referred between 7 Sept 7 Oct 01
• Referred between 7 June 6 Sept 01
• Referred before 7 June 2001

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Assessment Team Caseloads

• Similar time spent on new referrals about 12
• 4 out of 5 Teams spent 40 on cases older than
  four months
• Expect different picture next time

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CwD by Age and Gender

• Females 0-4, 5-10, 11-14, 15-18
• Males 0-4, 5-10, 11-14, 15-18
• Significant differences between districts
• Evaluation of services and pressures

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Preston Ward 53 CiN

• N1 Abuse Neglect21 of referrals
• N3 Parental Illness/Disability19 of referrals
• Area with high level of social needs
• Sure Start
• Preventing Exclusion

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Childrens Fund Application

• 1.3 District undetermined
• 3 Asylum seeking
• All CiN by CwD, CPR, CLA, age, ethnicity gender

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Using the Data Outside Childrens Services

• Reigate Banstead CDC
• Aggregated information on CiN from Preston
  Merstham Wards
• Self-reliance schemes
• Surrey Heath CDC
• Expenditure profile of CiN receiving services
  in Census week
• Health Improvement Management Programme

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Conclusion

• Actively promoted CiN Census
• Senior managers more aware of potential uses of
  data
• Newly integrated Childrens Services Social
  Services and Special Educational Needs
• Information focused on Districts and areas