Working together to turn policy into action 26th June Learning together for their future conference

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Working together to turn policy into action
26th JuneLearning together for their future
conferenceLouise Hughes
Walsall Children Young Peoples Partnership
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Working togetherin a team OR as a team?

• Challenges and opportunities
• 2 examples - service perspective, child
  perspective
• Rocket science and elephant
• making growing up as good as it can be

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Doing it differently better together we wanna
be together

• Challenge and opportunity.
• Moral purpose (ECM) shared values and
  understanding of whats important
• Shared language critical
• Perception is 9/10ths of the barrier
• Safeguarding - all our responsibility
• Universal services shift to locality delivery
• Partnership response local solutions to local
  needs working together
• making growing up in Walsall as good as it can
  be

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Since the launch of Every Child Matters we
have seen the richest and most significant debate
on childrens services for over a
generation Margaret Hodge
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If you are not confused then you dont know
whats going on
David Bell
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• Common Language
• Common Purpose
• Common Sense

• Common Purpose

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Locality Event Outcomes

• 10 events held across the Borough in March June
  2007 for professionals working with CYP
• Each locality provided with a profile of data
  specific to their area together with comparative
  data for Walsall, England Wales
• Each locality event engaged CYP for their views
• YP from the college made a CD and interviewed and
  filmed partners during the event as part of
  course work

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• Immunisations
• Child Protection Register
• Attainment
• School exclusions
• NEET
• Child Poverty
• Teenage pregnancies
• Crime
• Racial Incidents
• Youth Offending
• Looked After Children
• Sexually Transmitted Infections

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Aldridge

• Fewer teenage girls getting pregnant
• No further increases in obesity
• Address issues of violence, substance misuse,
  especially for families on the Red House estate
• Improve road awareness
• Target educational attainment
• Involve children young people in decision
  making
• Increase the number of young peoples
• co-ordinators

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Darlaston

• Increase capacity for school health visitors to
  work with the under 5s
• A safe place to go, without strings
• Seek ways to measure the outcome other than by
  academic achievement
• Further support for every young person to be
  engaged in training, education or employment
• Break the mind set across generations for
  aspirations to be beyond the local experience
• Fewer teenage girls getting pregnant

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Palfrey

• Address levels of fitness of children adults
• Break the cycle of teenage pregnancy
• Reduce incidents of bullying
• Track respond to incidents of racial violence
• Reduce anti-social behaviour
• Develop a better approach to deploying targeted
  intervention to better meet local needs
• Engage parents
• Encourage apprenticeships as a route to
  employment

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Pelsall, Rushall Shelfield

• Publicise healthy eating
• Promote play less structured adult directed
  activities
• Reduce incidents of bullying
• Organise activities for young people, with
  transport
• Improve provision for 8-13yr olds
• Increase facilities for young families
• Secure the involvement of children young people
  in shaping improving their communities
• Establish family career days
• Raise aspirations
• Improve child care

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Willenhall Bentley

• Tackle drugs alcohol misuse
• Ensure children exiting the care system can
  re-engage with family support
• Reduce incidents of bullying
• Map, signpost publicise activities that are
  easily accessible
• Develop inter school services to share good
  practice services
• Develop activities for 5yrs upwards
• Deliver life skills courses in schools
• Develop a multi agency approach to raising
  aspirations within the community institutions

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• Area partnership working
• CAPs Children Area Partnerships
• Multi- agency decision making board with
  schools at the heart
• Strategic representation rather than operational.
• Strong chairing arrangements
• Area data profile across all five outcomes (in
  accessible terminology)
• Agreed manageable priority
• Joint actions to address the priority

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• Agree joint actions to tackle the priorities
• What do we currently do well to address this
  priority?
• What should we stop doing?
• If we had a blank piece of paper and could start
  again, what new and more integrated ways of
  working would we introduce to address this
  priority?
• Doing it differently
• Note , no mention of additional resources
• Put another way we could have asked.

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• What do we currently commission that addresses
  this priority well?
• What should we de-commission because it isnt
  having an impact on outcomes for children, or it
  is duplicating something else?
• What new pieces of work should we be jointly
  commissioning, using pooled resources and
  possibly pooled budgets, to address this
  priority?

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How will we know if WE are making a
difference? What are WE looking to be different
by March 2009?
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Billys Story

• one boy one family one story

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The Kaleidoscope of support
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Secondary School - Excluded Primary School -
Excluded RUIZ Centre PRU - Excluded EWO
Service - Withdrawn Youth Offending
Service School Health Adviser- if appointments
kept WHG - Eviction Notice given Education
Psychological Service - referral - no action SS
Child Protection Unit CAMHS - referral - no
action Domestic Violence Service Sprugeons -
withdrawn G.P. Connexions Boxing Club -
voluntary sector Alternative Provision Panel
Police Behavioural Support and Reinterigation
Team Child's Safeguarding Officer Child
Protection Adviser - Walsall PCT Dale Street
Family Centre Starting Point Childminding
Service - withdrawn
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Issues for Consideration

• Formal contract of understanding between service
  providers and family
• What activities?
• Who owns the service responsibility?
• Rules of engagement and disengagement
• What does success look like?
• Tailored Services. Appointments.
• Agreement to disengagement. Who
  challenges the decision?
• How do we measure completions ,refusals,
  disengagement
• Getting the Universal Targeted services
  right

Description of family activities or Holding
each service provider to account ?
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Persistence Consistency Resilience
Assertive
Family Advocate
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Two Different Perspectives
Thinking and Feeling
Service Provider Agenda What is my expectation of
impact? How will my support be evaluated? Who am
I responsible to?
Billy aged 6 ¾ Where am I in your services? Who
meets my needs? Where am I in your local area
plan? Where am I in your CYP Plan? Do you discuss
me in your meetings? Which meetings?
Bridging the gap
5000 families in Great Britain without
sufficient support, these families are likely to
perpetuate a cycle of low achievement, which
passes from one generation to the next
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• Thats Us !
• Working together !

• Common Purpose