Innovative Development of a Health Led Childrens Centre

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Innovative Development of a Health Led Childrens
Centre

• Gaik Drew Erika Hyett
• (Childrens Centre Coordinators-job share)

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Little Acorn Children Centre - Logo
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Little Acorn Children Centre
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Little Acorn Children Centre
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Little Acorn Children Centre
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Outline of presentation

• National policy background - history, principles,
  purpose
• Little Acorn a health-led Childrens Centre
• What we do
• Case Studies
• Key messages and challenges

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Childrens Centres a brief history

• 1999 1st Sure Start centres
• 2002 250 Sure Start local programmes
• 2003 524
• 2004-6 Phase 1 - most deprived 30 in country
• 2006-8 Phase 2 most deprived 30 in each LA
• 2008-10 Phase 3 full coverage (3,500
  centres)

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Childrens Centres response to need
lone parents
deprivation
Child family
disadvantage
poverty
workless households
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7 guiding principles

• Working with parents and children
• Services for everyone
• Flexible at point of delivery
• Starting very early
• Respectful and transparent
• Community driven professionally coordinated
• Outcome driven
• (www.dcsf.gov.uk)

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The vision

• For families with preschool children
• Local pram-pushing distance
• First port of call for information, advice and
  support on
• parenting, child health development, childcare
• Integrated service model
• Aim to improve outcomes for children and reduce
  inequalities
• (DfES, 2005)

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The outcomes

• Childrens Centres are to contribute to
• outcomes such as
• Improving childrens lives and outcomes
• Reducing crime
• Reducing child poverty
• Enabling parents to study and work
• Helping lone parents to access work and training
  opportunities

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Service Delivery model

• All Childrens Centres must provide
• Information on childcare and early years
  provision
• Drop in sessions for parents and children e.g.
  stay play
• Information support to access wider services
  e.g. speech language
• Support to childminders
• Links to Jobcentre Plus and health services
• Information advice on parenting