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Wiltshire Childrens Services

• Pathways Project

Designing routes through services for vulnerable
children and young people
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Stage I Needs
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Environmental Obstacles
G Children and Young People who have disabilities
or complex health needs
F Children and Young People with emotional and
behavioural problems
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Stage I Needs
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B3 Children who experience family breakdown,
separation or loss
D3 Children who are out of school - because of
exclusion or truancy
F Children/Young People with emotional and
behavioural problems
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The Pathways Route
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Who Has Been Involved?
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The Pathways Route
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Stage I Needs - Key Messages
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• Identification of a childs needs is often a
  response to emotional and behavioural
  difficulties rather than the underlying
  problem.
• Children and young people may be best helped by
  promoting resilience and a capacity to manage
  emotions appropriately (Emotional Literacy).
• Parents may want support developing parenting
  skills - specifically, establishing routines and
  managing their childrens behaviour.

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The Pathways Route
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Stage I Services
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Stage I Services - Key Messages
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• Most services are unclear about what other
  services do.
• Few services can give a clear description of what
  they themselves do or who can expect to receive
  services from them.
• There are large variations in what the same or
  similar services do in different parts of the
  county.
• Some services are available in some parts of the
  county and not others.

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The Pathways Route
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Stage I Routes
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Parent
School
Child/Young Person
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Stage I Routes - Key Messages
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• Children experiencing the same difficulty can
  start their journey through services from many
  different points.
• Who children are referred on to is often
  arbitrary, depending on the recent experience of
  the referrer.
• Many services describe themselves as referring
  on, so that children and families are passed
  from one service to another. - Are there too
  many referrers-on and not enough
  problem-solvers?
• Schools can play a key role in identifying and
  responding to the needs of vulnerable children
  but there are wide variations in the help and
  support that pupils will receive.

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Stage I Routes - Possible Conclusion
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• There needs to be a concept of a service
  framework to which the range of childrens
  services contributes.

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The Pathways Route
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Stage II User Views - Key Messages
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What users said they wanted

• Easily accessible information enabling informed
  choices
• To be listened to including listening to
  childrens views
• To have somewhere to go when help is needed
• Not to be passed from pillar to post
• To be respected
• One place where access to all agencies is
  available without having to travel great
  distances.
• Someone to DO something
• To have concerns about bullying taken seriously

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The Pathways Route
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Stage III Proposals for Action
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314 Proposals for Action
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Stage III Proposals for Action - Key Messages
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Proposals for defining and/or developing specific
services Services requiring definition/re-shaping
of their role DS1 Role of Health
Visitor DS2 Role of School Nurse DS7 Role of
Child Adolescent Mental Health Services
DS9 Role of Connexions personal advisers
Promising initiatives worth further
development DS3 Use of Family Group
Conferences DS4 Outreach by Youth Community
workers DS5 Parenting programmes DS6 Drop-in
facilities for children and young people DS8
Peer mentoring in schools DS10 Mediators DS11 R
ole of District Childrens Services Planning
Groups DS12/13 School Start Home
Start DS14 Respite care for disabled children
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The Pathways Route
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Stage IV Working Conferences - Major Themes
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Wiltshire Children Young Peoples Services
Partnership How the Partnership is made up
Partnership Meeting Representatives of the main
childrens services providers interest
groups
Area Childrens Services Planning Groups
(x3) Area CEL District Council NHS Trusts PAT
rep Primary Care Trust Voluntary sector
Partnership Executive Representatives of
Partnership Meeting
Partnership Action Team
Substance Misuse Commission-ing Group
Childrens Services Planning Leads Group
Behaviour Support Plan Connexions planning
Child Protection Child Adolescent Mental
Health Early Years Development Childcare Plan
Teenage Pregnancy Strategy YPs Substance
Misuse Plan Youth Justice Plan
Sub-groups of Partnership
Childrens Fund Management Board
Partnership Training Group
Mental Health Commission-ing Group
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Partnership
Action Plan - Key Projects
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Wiltshire Children Young Peoples Services
Partnership
Plan 2002-2004
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www.WiltshirePathways.org
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Partnership Annual Conference - 12th
June Resilience
Compass Project