WELCOME to CYPF and BEST

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WELCOME to CYPF and BEST
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• Agenda for the day
• Introduction to Brighter Futures
• Putting it all into context
• What does it mean for you?
• Wheres the link to BEST?
• Workshop tools

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• By the end of the day you will
• Know the aims and key messages of Brighter
  Futures
• Consider how your team could apply Brighter
  Futures concepts within team or service
  improvement
• Understand the link to BEST values
• Identify and practise techniques to develop your
  skills as BEST leaders

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Our vision for Birminghams children For
Birmingham to be an inspiring place where all
children and young people enjoy living, learning,
developing and achieving together whilst feeling
secure in a city that is child and family
friendly.
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• Brighter Futures what have you heard so far?

Multi agency strategy - transform Childrens
services, - based on needs analysis -
shift to prevention
Four key concepts building blocks a way of
thinking
41 million investment, 10-15 years to achieve
success
Uses business transformation processes to manage
Implementation - Zero sum (reinvestment not
savings)
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What do we know about children in Birmingham?

• What do we know about children in Birmingham?

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• How many children live in Birmingham?
• 100,000
• 250,000
• 1 million

250,000 - the city is one of the youngest and
most ethnically diverse in Europe
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• What percentage of children have had an accident
  in the past year that required hospital
  treatment?
• 12
• 26
• 55

• 26 of children had an accident
• that required hospital treatment

26 of children had an accident that required
hospital treatment.
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• What of 12 -18 year olds smoke cigarettes?
• 8
• 15
• 25

• 8 of 12 - 18 yr olds smoke cigarettes

8 of children aged 12 18 smoke cigarettes
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• What percentage of children aged 12 -18 yr olds
  drink alcohol a few times a week?
• 12
• 28
• 61

• 61 of children aged 12 -18 drink alcohol a few
  times a week

61 of children aged 12 -18 drink alcohol a few
times a week.
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• What percentage of children aged 12 -18 years
  have used illegal drugs in the last 12 months?
• 3
• 8
• 15

• 8 of children aged 12 -18 have used illegal
  drugs I the last 12 months

8 of children aged 12 -18 have used illegal
drugs in the last 12 months.
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• What percentage of children aged 9 - 10 are
  clinically obese?
• 15
• 23
• 50

• 23 of children aged 9 - 10 are
• clinically obese

23 of children aged 9 -10 are clinically obese
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• How many children are permanently excluded from
  school each academic year?
• 150
• 350
• 750

• 350 children are permanently excluded from school
  each academic year in Birmingham

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• Birmingham Brighter Futures focuses on improving

• physical health
• behaviour
• emotional health
• literacy and numeracy
• social literacy
• job skills

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How? By using the 4 building blocks to design
services

• Outcomes based planning

• All children and children in need

• Data

• What works evidence

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All children and children in need a
developmental framework Know which group of
children we are targeting, against which
outcomes, appropriate to age or capacity All
children universal approach to improve an
outcome Children in need specific group based
on needs of that Group, Eg reducing teenage
pregnancy
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• Outcomes based planning - Developing services
  using a logical approach
• Outcomes
• Activities
• Investments
• Outputs

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What is an outcome? What is an output? Which
is which?
Impact of activities (generally a service or set
of services) on childrens development
A measure of activities intended to lead to an
outcome
Happy, school attendance, safe, adequately
assessed, victim of crime, depressed, child
protection register.
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Logic Model Method
Epidemiology other need assessment
Review of National Policy
What works evidence
Staff capacity
Oc A I Ot
Communication
Conference Workshops
Focus Groups with users and the community
Dissemination feedback from staff
Evaluation
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• Data
• Review existing data and pull it together
• Identify gaps in information and ways to fill
  those gaps
• E.g initial data collection activity
• Repeat it over time, using consistent measures,
  to see trends
• Use it to inform a needs analysis

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What have we done so far? Nine pilot
programmes Incredible years Family Nurse
Partnership Triple P positive parenting
practice Promoting alternative thinking
strategies (PATHS) Targeted provision for 2 year
olds Restorative justice Subsidised places for
children at risk Short breaks for disabled
children Transforming provision for children in
care
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• Plus
• Public health style campaign to improve outcomes
  for all
• Workforce development activity to support us to
  deliver
• Replace IT systems to support new ways of working
• Introduce a research and development function

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One childrens workforce Everyone knows how they
support improving outcomes for children, with
evidence A common language across all childrens
services Service improvement and team working
linked into a child outcomes framework People
feel equipped and able to do their jobs well
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• What is the link between the Brighter Futures
  strategy
• and BEST?
• Beliefs we recognise that we all have a role to
  play
• in improving outcomes for children.
• Excellence we need to work together to find new
• and better ways of working in order to improve
  outcomes
• for children.
• Success we need to see improving outcomes for
  children
• as our primary objective.
• Trust we need to value the contribution each of
  us makes
• to improving outcomes for children.

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Belief - we all have a role to play Discuss
your role and explore together what role each
person has in improving outcomes for children.

• Success - Outcomes for Children is our primary
  objective
• How might you ensure that outcomes are at the
  centre of your work?

Trust - working together to improve outcomes
What makes you feel valued and supported in
your efforts to improve outcomes for children?

• Excellence - we will find new and better ways of
  working
• Discuss how you might achieve this.

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• Roles of BEST Leader and Manager
• be able to explain the logic model to team
• help set objectives in line with the outcomes
• provide a positive environment for objective
  setting and discussion
• be able to explain the values of BCC and
  encourage behaviours that reflect the values
• Managers - service planning process that
  reflects outcomes

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What next

• Team meeting service planning,
  objective/action setting
• team expectations/behaviours
• Outcomes for children success is underpinned by
  values
• Our values Belief, Excellence, Success and
  trust
• Using the materials
• Support Dragons Den, Living it! Awards,
  Generation BEST
• Leader networks,

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Workshop tools