Kent Governors Association County Assembly

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Kent Governors Association County Assembly 11
February 2008 Joy Ackroyd Trust Development
Manager
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The Case for Change - National Context

• Every child deserves a life of quality free
  from fear, depression and danger with a sense of
  well-being, belonging, worth and achievement

Children Act 2004 - Requiring all LAs to
establish Childrens Trust Arrangements by
2008. The National Childrens Plan - Building
brighter futures.

• Unicef overview of child wellbeing in rich
  countries
• Rowntree what will it take to end child
  poverty?
• Barnardos the reality of child poverty in the
  UK
• Shelter the impact of bad housing on
  childrens lives

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The Case for Change - Local Context

• The NfER Pupil Survey
• The Kent Children and Young Peoples Plan
  Positive About Our Future
• Children and Young People of Kent
• Joint Strategic Health Needs Assessment for
  Children
• Cluster plans and developing Local Children and
  Young Peoples Plans
• Shared multi agency data including Mosaic

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Five hallmarks for effective childrens trust
arrangements in Kent

• Kent Childrens Trust (County Board) providing
  strategic direction through the Kent Children
  Young Peoples Plan
• Frameworks for Governance and Integrated
  Commissioning to ensure trust arrangements are
  accountable and effective in improving outcomes
• Local childrens trust arrangements to focus
  decision making at the most local level and to
  engage children, young people and parents in
  designing the services they need
• Integrated working through local multi-agency
  teams providing a context for the CAF, LP, and
  Contact Point
• Participation arrangements that put the views of
  children, young people and parents at the heart
  of decision making

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Working Together to improve outcomes for
Children, Young People and families in Kent
Government ECM Children Act 2004 National
Childrens Plan
Kent Partnership
Vision for Kent Local Area Agreement
DCS Lead Member
Kent Childrens Trust (KCT) Kent Children and
Young Peoples Plan
Kent Children's Safeguarding Board
KCT Sub Groups and Working Groups
Local Childrens Services Partnerships (LCSP) X 23
Local Children and Young Peoples Plan
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Local Childrens Services Partnerships (LCSPs)
Building on the 23 school clusters and the 12
childrens consortia and learning from
pathfinders in Maidstone, Shepway and Tunbridge
Wells
Key elements of local arrangements

• Local partnership board and stakeholder group(s)
• Local Children and Young Peoples Plan
• Integrated working across childrens services
• Multi-agency team(s)
• LCSPs working together where it makes sense for
  local children and families

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Local Childrens Services Partnerships X23
LCSPs will also work with other key groups
for example Local Strategic Partnerships
LCSPs will work together where it makes sense
for CYP families
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Local Partnership Arrangements
Core membership of the LCSP Board -
representatives from

• Education - Largest social footprint
• District Council Officers
• Childrens Social Services
• Health
• Police
• Voluntary Sector
• Representative of GP/Practice Based Cluster

Stakeholder Groups

• Locally determined but should include young
  people and parents

Working closely with other Local Partnerships /
Groups

• Crime Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP),
  Teenage Pregnancy Local Implementation Group

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The Local Children and Young Peoples Plan

• The local implementation plan for the Kent CYPP
• Integrated commissioning plan for local
  childrens partnership arrangements
• The glue connecting all local plans to improve
  outcomes for children and young people
• Evidence based using multi-agency data across the
  ECM framework
• All localities are developing a LCYPP during
  2007/08 in readiness for launching LCSP
  arrangements in September 2008

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Integrated Processes to support integrated working

• Common Assessment Framework
• Mary Burwell ? 01622 696681 ?
  mary.burwell_at_kent.gov.uk
• Lead Professional function
• Mary Burwell ? 01622 696681 ?
  mary.burwell_at_kent.gov.uk
• ContactPoint
• Nikki Patient ? 01622 696553 ?
  nikki.patient_at_kent.gov.uk
• Resource Directory
• James Harman ? 01622 696590 ? james.harman_at_kent.g
  ov.uk

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What happens next?

• Pathfinder activity and final evaluation - May
  2008
• Decisions regarding model for local multi-agency
  teams - Spring 2008
• Consultation processes regarding structural
  change - Feb - March 2008
• Recruitment to LCSM posts - June 2008
• Develop LCYPP for each Cluster - October 2007 -
  July 2008
• Continued work on structures and processes for
  integrated working - Ongoing
• Transition planning for Cluster and Consortia -
  January - July 2008
• Phase 1 of local childrens partnership
  arrangements across Kent from - September 2008
• Phase 2 review of central services and evaluation
  of early LCSP progress - from January 2009

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Childrens trusts will enable improved outcomes
for children, young people and families
Will any of this make a difference?

• By developing a new kind of partnership based on
  new relationships between services and new ways
  of engaging children, young people, parents and
  local communities.
• By shifting focus from improving services to
  improving outcomes for children.
• By maximising our combined efforts for the most
  needy families and vulnerable children with a
  focus on prevention and managing risk rather than
  responding to crisis.
• By providing a framework for integrated working
  and processes CAF, Lead Professional,
  ContactPoint.

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• Joy Ackroyd
• Childrens Trust Development Manager
• ? 01622 696013
• ? joy.ackroyd_at_kent.gov.uk
• www.clusterweb.org.uk/Children/childrenstrust.cfm