Flying Start Wales

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Flying Start - Wales

• Fran Dale RGN RHV MA
• Team Leader Flying Start/Sure Start Wrexham

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What is Flying Start?

• A Welsh Assembly Government initiative focused on
  improving outcomes for children aged 0-3 years
  and their families.
• A four year Pilot aimed at reaching 11 of
  children and families who live within the most
  disadvantaged communities in Wales.

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Why Flying Start

• Children within areas of multiple deprivation
  suffer additional effects of disadvantage.
• Targeted interventions can reduce the social and
  educational risks associated with deprived
  communities.
• International evidence supports these
  interventions which improve outcomes for children
  in the long term.

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Why Flying Start

• The Welsh Assembly Government vision for every
  child and young person in Wales.
• 7 Core Aims translated the UN Convention on the
  Rights of the Child.
• All children and young people to have a flying
  start in life (Core Aim 1).

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Where is Flying Start?

• Postcodes within Lower Super Output Areas with
  the greatest levels of need, and/or
• Selected community school catchment areas, based
  on the take up of free school meals.
• Identified by using the Welsh Index of Multiple
  Deprivation (2005) .

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Who Are We?

• A multi disciplinary team of health, social
• care, and education professionals working
• together to deliver the 4 components of Flying
• Start
• Intensive Health Visiting
• Quality Childcare Provision for 2-3 year olds
• Parenting Support, and
• Basic Skills Programmes

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Flying Start Targets

• To improve on
• Language Development
• Cognitive Development
• Social and Emotional Development
• Physical Health, and the
• Early Identification of High Needs

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Flying Start - How

• Support through pregnancy from a Flying
• Start Midwife and Health Visitor. This
• includes a comprehensive ante-natal
• assessment of need, with the offer of
• appropriate packages of care before the baby
• is born.

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Flying Start - How

• Intensive home visiting from Midwife, Health
  Visitors, Nursery Nurses and Family Support
  Workers after the baby is born.
• Assessments based on the Framework for the
  Assessment of Children in Need and their Families
  ( 2001).
• Utilising the Solihull Approach and the Home
  Inventory Scales and Questionnaires

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Flying Start - How

• Free part-time quality childcare for children the
  term after their 2nd Birthday until the term
  after their 3rd Birthday.
• Childcare settings are situated in and near the
  Flying Start Schools.
• All Childcare professionals trained to minimum
  NVQ Level 3.
• Ongoing support received from the Early Years
  Teachers

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Flying Start - How

• Information and support to improve the
• health and development of children within the
• scheme, through
• Basic skills development improving social,
  emotional and intellectual skills through
  Language and Play (LAP), and Numbers and Play
  (NAP).

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Flying Start - How

• Parenting Programmes, e.g.
• Webster-Strattons Incredible Years
• Parenting Positively
• Handling Childrens Behaviour
• Triple P
• PIPPIN
• Stepping Stones and others requiring rigorous
  evaluation

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Flying Start Wrexham

• Bend to Fit Sure Start and Flying Start now
  one team delivering services across both areas.
• Allocation Team Meetings Nursery Nurses/Family
  Support Workers receive referrals from Midwife
  and Health Visitors to provide tailored packages
  of care.

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Flying Start Wrexham

• The Community Psychiatric Nurse
• Takes referrals from within the team
• Provides clinical assessments
• Therapeutic work with parents and carers
• Training and advice for team members.

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Flying Start Wrexham

• The Speech and Language team provide
• Advice and support for supervisors in the
  childcare settings.
• 11 and group work therapy
• Home based provision
• Client led referrals

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Flying Start Wrexham

• The Family Support Workers
• A 7 day a week service, including early mornings
  and evenings
• Intensive packages of planned intervention to
  support families and children in need
• Nursery Nurse trained with additional high level
  skills.

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Flying Start Wrexham

• The Portage Service provides
• A home visiting educational service for
  pre-school children with additional support needs
• Weekly home visits
• Planned goal setting with carers
• An opportunity for parents and carers to share
  their understanding of their childs gifts,
  abilities and support needs.

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Flying Start

• Flying Start grants to local authorities total
  27
• million in 2008-9, and are projected to rise to
• 31 million in 2010-11.

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