Loughborough Primary School and Childrens Centre and the Health Agenda

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Loughborough Primary School and Childrens Centre
and the Health Agenda

• How the School and Childrens Centre has worked
  with the PCT and the local Health Centre Iveagh
  House Surgery
• Colin Pagett, GP practice manager
• Joanna Eade, Head teacher

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Why This Partnership

• Health services form part of the Core Offer
• Childrens Centre is committed to multi agency
  working
• Other partners include the police and the
  voluntary sector
• Childrens Centre is located in area of high
  social deprivation eg local ward is one of the
  top 5 for violent crime and estate serving the
  childrens centre is a domestic violence
  hotspot
• Health statistics reveal local area have the
  highest serious mental illness rate and highest
  HIV rate in the country along with a large
  transient population
• We define health in it widest sense

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Challenges

• Sustainability money
• Workforce remodelling terms and conditions
• Different work cultures between agencies
• Maintaining focus on Leadership and SDP day to
  day matters,Ofsted, SATs etc
• Commissioning services eg PCT, Social Services,
  Job Centre

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How It Was Established

• Original contact was with a PCT service manager
  who was committed to outreach work
• Relationship was established between school and
  local health centre
• Individual champions vital for success
• NCSL Multi Agency pilot project formalised
  contact and led to the development of LOMAT
  (Loughborough Multi-Agency Team)
• Partnership now up and running

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Where We Are in the Journey

• We have an annual Health Fayre supported by GPs
  and nurses from the Health Centre
• This a health promotion event
• We are planning a lifestyle clinic
• Both the Childrens Centre and Health Centre
  signpost each others services
• The Childrens Centre also offers Speech Therapy
  Drop- in Clinic, a Health Visitor Clinic and a
  Smoking Cessation Group

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One Key Challenge Along the Way

• Resources are our key challenge
• Both partners are keen and willing to engage but
  finding person power has proved difficult
• This has meant for example that the Lifestyle
  Clinic has not yet started as one nurse is off
  sick and the other consequently snowed under
• Another example Health Visitor Clinic is now
  running from the Childrens Centre instead of
  rather than as well as the Health Centre

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One Key Success

• Genuine multi agency working across LOMAT with
  more in common than we maybe realised
• This has led to more families accessing services
  and support
• LOMAT has a real presence and investment in the
  Childrens Centre which makes the Core Offer
  meaningful and the Childrens Centre goes beyond
  just being an extension to the Primary School

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One Key Learning So Far

• That enthusiasm, individual champions and
  personal relationships only go so far
• Large organisations such as the PCT and Social
  Care can be difficult to work with as they have
  engrained cultural and professional patterns of
  working
• Whilst we may share common goals each
  organisation has their own service priorities
  limited often by financial constraints

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Whats in it for Us

• Develops our passion and commitment to improving
  the lives of the communities we serve
• We believe that this is far more effective when
  we work together
• Working together on issues vital to families such
  as child protection, health promotion, family
  support and preventing crime and anti social
  behaviour
• Sharing expertise and practice across disciplines
• A fulfilling and enjoyable way of working!