What next for the childrens workforce

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What next for the childrens workforce?
local focus national voice
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National Association for Voluntary and Community
Actionlocal focus national voice

• Revised programme
• 1030 1200 Plenary
• 1200 1315 Workshops (tea coffee available)
• 1315 1415 Networking lunch
• 1415 1530 Workshops (tea coffee available)
• 1530 1600 Plenary

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The Childrens Plan, the third sector and the
workforce Peter Lauener Director of Local
Transformation 17 March 2008
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Government does not bring up children parents
do

• Sure Start Centres
• A personal progress record the red book
• Expansion of parent support advisors
• Parenting experts in every LA
• Extended Family Fund for disabled children

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All children have the potential to succeed

• 15 hours of free early education/childcare for
  2-year-olds in disadvantaged communities.
• Pilot of one-to-one tuition for dyslexic children
• More flexible primary curriculum
• Entitlement to cultural activities
• Intensive fostering pilots for young offenders

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Children and young people need to enjoy childhood

• Funding for 3,500 playgrounds to be rebuilt
• Home safety equipment for families in deprived
  areas
• Play Strategy in summer 2008
• Stronger complaints procedure around bullying
• 160m to improve venues and activities for
  young people.

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Services shaped by and responsive to children,
young people and their families

• A personal tutor for every child
• Better data for schools on children with SEN
• Co-location of services
• Parents Panel to advise us on policy
• Parent Councils to give parents greater voice
  in schools

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It is always better to prevent failure than
tackle a crisis

• Encourage LAs to create 20mph zones
• Regular updates for parents on a childs
  attendance, behaviour and progress
• Focus on prevention in Youth alcohol action plan
  and Youth crime action plan
• 45m for building resilience to extremism

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The key delivery challenges for DCSF

• Improvement Support where its needed with the
  right expertise
• School of the 21st century
• Colocation of services and integrated working
• Development of the whole childrens workforce
• Childrens Trusts
• Better commissioning

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Effective commissioning needs engagement of third
sector to

• help assess needs and identify the right
  outcomes for children
• design services that will deliver these outcomes
  and which will be the basis of procurement
• deliver these services as part of a mixed market
  of providers
• help commissioners engage with service users and
  act as advocates of service users

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Commissioning and the third sector next steps

Our vision The DSCF vision is for the third
sector to empower childre, young people, parents
and learners of all ages and enable them to shape
services at national and local leve..We want its
unique role in reaching out to the more
vulnerable and the less articulate to be
recognised and used effectively The Third Sector
Strategy and Action Plan, June 2007

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Commissioning and the third sector next steps

Making it happen To support this
transformation, we will work to build new
capacity in the system. A new Centre for
Excellence and Outcomes (CFEO) will begin work in
July 2008, and a new programme to improve
commissioning practice will be developed with
local authority, health and voluntary sector
partners to support Childrens Trusts in building
world class systems. The Childrens Plan,
December 2007,para 7.22

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Commissioning so that we establish
integrated services, based on the team around
the child
Specialist Targeted Services
Providing information and advice
Multi - Agency Locality Teams
Leading
Leading
Forming a Team around the Child
Co-ordinating and Delivering integrated Services
Universal Services
Assessing those needs
Leading
Bringing Specialist Expertise to bear
Identifying needs early
Providing Universal Services
Reviewing Progress
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Some questions..

• Have we identified the right delivery challenges
• Improvement Support
• School of the 21st century
• Colocation of services and integrated working
• Development of the whole childrens workforce
• Childrens Trusts
• Better commissioning
• What more should DCSF do to draw on the expertise
  of the third sector?
• How can LAs and third sector work better
  together?

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Jane Haywood Chief Executive
Children, Young People and Families Workforce
Development Council
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• The road map
• The journey and destination
• Modes of transport
• Staying on board
• Support for the journey

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The Road Map

• Every Child Matters
• Aiming high for Disabled Children
• Aiming High for Young People
• Childrens Workforce Strategy
• Childrens Plan
• Children and Young peoples views

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The Journey and Destination

• Cross cutting themes safeguarding,
  disadvantage, poverty, disability, families
• One Workforce
• Organisations team around the child
• Integration
• Identification, intervention, prevention

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Modes of transport

• Workforce reform and Integrated Working
  information sharing, processes, teams
• Integrated Qualifications Framework
• Early years
• Social Care
• Youth

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Staying on board

• Understand the context
• Understand your role
• Learning and development
• Activities

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Support for the journey

• Third Sector Strategy
• NAVCA contract
• Regional and local funding
• Access to support and training
• Volunteer strategy
• Talking Trusts and Frontline Hopscotch

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• www.cwdcouncil.org.uk

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National Association for Voluntary and Community
Actionlocal focus national voice

• Points for discussion
• To what extent are your local groups engaging
  with the Every Child Matters agenda ?
• How ready are your local groups to contribute
  to the aims set out in the Childrens Plan ?
• What support do your local groups need ?
• What support do you need to enable this ?

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National Association for Voluntary and Community
Actionlocal focus national voice

• Points for discussion
• To what extent are your local groups engaging
  with the Every Child Matters agenda ?
• How ready are your local groups to contribute
  to the aims set out in the Childrens Plan ?
• What support do your local groups need ?
• What support do you need to enable this ?

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National Association for Voluntary and Community
Actionlocal focus national voice

• Action planning next steps
• What are your action points from today ?
• What action points would you like NAVCA or CWDC
  to take away from today ?
• and dont forget to fill in your evaluation
  form !

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National Association for Voluntary and Community
Actionlocal focus national voice

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