Change for Children

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Change for Children

• Children with Additional Needs
• Policy Update
• December 2004
• Jo Blake
• Christine Humphrey

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• DFES 5 year Strategy
• Change for Children DFES / DH
• Children Act 2004
• Adoption Children Act Implementation
• National Service Framework Sept 2004
• SEN Removing barriers to achievement
• Public Health White Paper Nov 2004
• Youth Green Paper
• Ministerial Changes
• Spending Review announcement
• DFES Review

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Change for Children

• Every Child Matters Change for Children -Dec.
• Regional Childrens Change Advisors Kate
  Andrews
• Information Sharing Assessment
• Common Assessment Framework
• Pay Workforce Strategy
• Childrens Trust Approach
• Director of Childrens Service / Lead member
  Consultation period from 26 Nov 04 18 Feb 05
• Integrated Inspection Framework - soon

4
Children with Additional Needs

• Looked After
• Disabled
• Unaccompanied Minors
• LAC Programme Board
• Links to 5 outcomes 25 sub outcomes

5

• New PSA Target
• Long term stability
• Underpinning Indicators
• Educational attainment
• Careleavers (education, training, employment etc)
• Adoption, Special Guardianship, and Residence
  Orders

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PSA Target

• Narrow the gap in educational achievement
  between LAC and their peers, and improve their
  educational support and the stability of their
  lives, so that by 2008, 80 of the children under
  16 who have been looked after for 2.5 or more
  years will have been living in the same placement
  or are placed for adoption

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• 60 of children age 11, looked after for at least
  6 months, who obtain key stage 2 in English and
  Maths
• 10 of young people looked after for at least 12
  months who have reached school leaving age
  without having sat GCSE or equivalent exam
• 15 of young people looked after for at least 12
  months and in year 11, who achieve 5 or more
  GCSEs graded A-C or equivalent

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Adoption

• Consultation exercises
• Roll out of guidance and regulations
• Full implementation September 2005 (most in
  place end 2004)
• Intercountry Adoption

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Fostering

• Recruitment and Retention (Pack)
• National Helpline
• Foster Care Awards
• Allegations and Support
• Foster Care Training (Fostering Voices)
• Minimum allowance Children Act
• Friends and Family Care
• LAC Taskforce
• Treatment Foster Care

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Commissioning

• Choice Protects ring fence funds
• Huge range of activity links to Childrens
  Trusts
• Commissioning Principles - NSF
• Regional Work Streams
• Out of Authority Study
• Regional events LAC Taskforce role

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Residential Care

• Conference held in October
• Residential Network
• Safe from Harm report CSCI
• Progress on safeguards for children living away
  from home a review of action since the people
  like us report www.jrf.org.uk

12
Careleaving

• National and Regional Protocols
• Focus on performance
• Issues around Accommodation / Supporting People
• RDW for East SouthEast

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Life Chances Health Education

• Model focussing on wellbeing
• Healthy Care Network 3rd Feb 05
• Leaflets for children and carers
• Links with CAMHS development
• Wrap around services

14
Education

• Duty to promote education of CLA Children Act
  2004
• Education Protects Network / Focus on SEU
• recommendations
• Who does What Leaflet
• Links to O/A Study

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Assessment, Planning and Review

• Integrated Childrens System / e social care
  record
• Independent Reviewing Officers
• NCB Study due 2005
• Links to CAF

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Safeguarding

• Safeguarding and promotion of welfare new duty
• Local Childrens Safeguarding Boards
• Screening Teams
• Regional network of Child Protection
  Co-ordinators
• VCI action plans
• NSF Standard - Sept

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Disabled Children

• NSF
• Regional Networks / Conferences
• Disabled Childrens Website (teacher.net)
• (whole school / SEN / Disabled Children)
• Link to SEN / New Regional Advisor

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Participation

• Building culture of participation
• Developing virtual good practice centre

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Focus of Future Activity

• Stability targets / educational attainment
• Healthy Care / Links to NSF
• Commissioning / Placement Choice / Out of
  Authority issues
• Integrated Childrens System / Links to CAF
  development
• IROs and care planning / avoidance of delay
• Safeguarding LSCBs
• Role of LAC field forces in Childrens Change
  agenda?