London Early Intervention and Prevention Conference March 9th

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London Early Intervention and Prevention
ConferenceMarch 9th
Anne Jackson, Director of Every Child Matters
Strategy, DfES
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A brief recap
Sept 03 Every Child Matters promised
Opportunities for all and narrowing the gap

• Systemic change to
• Build services around the child, young person and
  family
• Support parents and carers
• Promote prevention and early intervention
• and to integrate
• Universal and targeted services
• Services 0-19
• Cross government policy for children and young
  people

• Be Healthy
• Stay Safe
• Enjoy and Achieve
• Make a positive contribution
• Achieve economic well-being

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Local change, focused on outcomes, driven forward
by childrens trusts partnerships
All areas involving children, young people,
parents and families in needs assessment.
All areas required to do so have children and
young peoples plans. Local area agreements are
driving forward locally agreed priorities
Over 1000 childrens centres and 4000 extended
schools
New investment in integrated youth services.
Nearly all Local Authorities have the structure
for Directors of Childrens Services and lead
members. All Local Safeguarding Childrens
Boards now in place.-
Common Assessment Framework and lead
professionals being rolled out across all LAs.
ContactPoint being implemented.
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Whole System Delivery
Integrated Universal Services
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Maternity
ChildrensCentres
Integrated Youth Services
Extended Schools
Tier 1
(childcare)
(childcare)
M/A locality teams and area panels
Tools
Parents
Workforce reform
CAF
Tier 2
ContactPoint
Lead Professionals
Specialist Services
Tiers 3/4
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Problems persist but can be addressed
Continuity of anti-social behaviour from age 5 to
17
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And, if theyre not, they have long-term impact
Probability of multiple deprivation by age 30
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Greater prevention and early intervention is
being taken forward through

• Increased support for parents and families
• High quality early education and care
• Extended schools
• The Childrens Fund and
• Integrated Youth Support

• Supported by
• Strong Partnerships and multi-agency working
• Common processes such as the Common Assessment
  Framework and ContactPoint
• Workforce Development.

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A strategic approach to parenting support
Parents are central to better prevention and
early intervention. They play a crucial role in
raising the aspirations and achievements of
children and young people. Our role

• To ensure parents have access to the support and
  information they need, especially in the early
  years of a childs development
• To ensure parents can engage as partners in their
  childs learning and development
• To help parents shape public services so that
  they are responsive to their needs
• To offer targeted support where needed and, where
  necessary, to intervene.

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We are ahead of trajectory for childrens centres
and extended schools
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The childrens fund has developed innovative
preventative services

• 966 million on preventative services for
  children and young people aged 5 13
• Developed our understanding of the relationship
  between participation and prevention and ways of
  achieving multi-agency collaboration
• The voluntary and community sector have proven to
  be instrumental in delivering innovative
  preventive services
• The Childrens Fund will migrate into children's
  trusts by 2008 enabling greater mainstreaming of
  the lessons learnt 

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Targeted Support the common themes emerging
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Prevention and Early Intervention the CSR
As part of the 2007 Comprehensive Spending
Review, DfES and HM Treasury have examined how to
boost prevention and early intervention. Emerging
findings show

• Prevention can be boosted by support for key
  protective factors positive parenting, good
  social and emotional skills and attainment
• Services need to increase their focus on reaching
  and working with disadvantaged groups
• Prevention and early intervention needs a whole
  system approach, led by the childrens trust,
  with universal services playing a central role
• Making a reality of multi-agency working eg
  with health and schools boosts prevention and
  early intervention.

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The new Local Government Performance Framework

• Coherent set of responsibilities for local
  government and partners, with outcomes for
  children at its heart
• LAs to report on a much reduced set of indicators
  (200 across all LG business)
• Small number of targets for each authority (35
  18 statutory) drawn from the indicators against
  which performance most needs to improve
• New duties on LAs and partners to co-operate in
  agreeing LAA targets and to have regard to
  meeting them strengthening current partnership
  arrangements within the Childrens Trust
• Current childrens services improvement cycle to
  be embedded in wider new performance framework
• New Comprehensive Area Assessment arrangements
  will mean most inspection is risk based

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Embedding prevention and early intervention
Local areas can drive forward prevention and
early intervention though

• A whole system approach to prevention and early
  intervention involving universal services and
  effective multi-agency arrangements
• Prioritisation for prevention and early
  intervention through the CYPP and LAA
• Effective commissioning supported by holistic
  needs assessment
• Workforce development
• Strong partnership working across the childrens
  trust
• Innovative practice based on what works,
  maximising the expertise of the VCS.

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London Early Intervention and Prevention
ConferenceMarch 9th
Anne Jackson, Director of Every Child Matters
Strategy, DfES