Aiming High for Disabled Children AHDC

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• Aiming High for Disabled Children (AHDC)
• Transforming Services for Disabled Children
• and their Families
• LIVERPOOL
• Senior Responsible Officer Colette OBrien
• Programme Manager Anne-Marie
  Carney

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National Perspective

• Vision
• For families with disabled children to have the
  support they need to live ordinary family lives
  as a matter of course.
• Short Breaks Vision
• To improve outcomes for disabled children and
  their families through the transformation of
  short breaks services in terms of quality,
  quantity and range of provision.

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How?

• Investment of 770 million to transform short
  breaks services
• 340 million to Local Authorities
• 340 million to PCT baselines
• 90 million capital investment

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Why?

• The evidence for short breaks is clear.
• Children and young people with the greatest need
  seem unable to access services.
• Investment creates a platform for step change in
  capacity, range and quality of short break
  services.
• Short break services will be set on statutory
  footing with Children and Young Persons Bill
  2011.

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What is a short break?

• Can last from an hour to a few days or longer
  needs led.
• Includes day, evening, overnight and weekend
  activities in the child or young persons home,
  the home of an approved carer, a residential or
  community setting.

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Listening to Children, Young People and
Parents/Carers

• Children and young people tell us they want to be
  included in fun activities, in child/young person
  friendly environments where they are respected
  and listened to.
• Parents/Carers tell us they want breaks from
  caring where they feel that their child is able
  to enjoy and is safe.
• Families tell us they want to access short breaks
  together as a whole family sometimes.

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Selection of comments from children who attended
AHDC Family day
be included
Explain What Will Happen...
Ask me what I want
Warm Friendly Environment
CHOICE
LISTEN
Respect Me
Child Friendly
FEEL SAFE
Learn how to communicate
I want to be involved in decision making

• Help For
• Mum
• Dad

FUN
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The story so farin Liverpool

• Consultation process with disabled children/young
  people and parents/carers
• Creative bidding process
• Sitting service development
• Support for children with more complex needs
• Partner families

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What are the top 5 favourite activities that you
like to do outside the house?
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Is there anything you like doing that you would
like to do more of?
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What do you think about the activities and clubs
you go to now?

• Top Activities / Clubs 1 5
• 1st. Holidays 37 (say they like this best)
• 2nd. Overnight Stays
• or Residential 28
• 3rd. PM After school 23
• (e.g. extended school clubs)
• 4th. What else? 8
• (e.g Friendship groups, Fusion, School Trips,
  Toy Library Gym)
• 5th. AM Before school 4
• (e.g. breakfast club)

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What activities have you never done that you
would like to try?
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Have you ever been on a residential or slept away
from home?

• Who was it with?
• School / Fusion / Kids Connect / Prescot Drive /
  Calder Kids / Family Friends
• Where did you go?
• Colomendy / Barnstonedale / Centre Parks /
  Barton Towers / Other
• How long was it for?
• Average 2 Nights / Weekends / 5 Nights. Other
  Various

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Who would you like to do activities with?

• Friends 23
• Friends from school 21
• Family 18
• Support worker 11
• New people 13
• New friends 14

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Childcare

• Existing quality provision available potential
  to increase demand
• Cost implications charges not eligible for
  Childcare Tax Credits
• Training implications inclusive practices need
  to be reviewed not Equal Opportunities Training
  outcomes not outputs
• Childcare support does not mean 11 !!

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Childcare Cont.

• Voluntary Register supporting older children,
  expansion of Fusion
• Shadowing/mentoring scheme being developed
• Simplifying funding arrangements for childcare
  costs (for non working parents)
• Develop Inclusive Quality Assurance Standard
• Fits within Childcare Sufficiency Assessment

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Workforce Development
Principles
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Workforce Development

• The Team Around the Child (TAC) College is a
  cross-agency initiative bringing together young
  people, parents, carers, disabled adults and
  service providers in a programme of shared
  learning.
• TAC College has developed over the past 3 years
  in the context of Liverpool Childrens and Young
  Persons Integrated Workforce Strategy and with
  reference to the Common Core Standards for the
  Childrens Workforce.
• Portfolio Core Learning Offer

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Contacts

• AHDC Programme Liverpool
• Programme Administrator
• maria.ledson_at_liverpoolpct.nhs.uk
• Programme Manager
• anne-marie.carney_at_liverpoolpct.nhs.uk

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Any Questions?

• Challenges?
• Opportunities?

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