Overcoming Organisational Barriers

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Overcoming Organisational Barriers
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Workshop Aim

• To identify current and perceived barriers to
  work across agency and geographical boundaries
• Share and receive feedback on effective ways to
  overcome these barriers
• Provide Pathfinders with an overview of the types
  of support available, from the Mott MacDonald
  Support Team, peer groups and VCS, to overcome
  these and other areas of Pathfinder challenge

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Input from workshop attendees

• What barriers do you perceive?
• Geographical Issues
• Sharing Data confidentially, differing systems
• Sharing budgets across different budget holders
• Impact of decisions by one agency on another
• Different understanding and use of language and
  what this means to different organisations
• Differing professional objectives
• Different criteria across Authorities and PCTs
• Lack of shared understanding of what is available
• Assessment frameworks different across
  organisations
• Differences across children and adults
  (transitions)
• Different implementation and interpretation of
  legislation
• Different protocol and processes across
  organisations

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Input from workshop attendees

• How could we overcome them?
• Clear guidance
• Joint needs assessment for children
• Aligning budgets and decisions
• Local champions
• Lead member on Council involved and engaged,
  senior leadership, reduce red-tape blocks
  working together for change.
• Facilitate better communications
• Encourage parent participation from the outset
  and throughout the process, ensuring it is
  supported.
• Encourage VCS participation from the outset and
  throughout the process
• Focus on outcomes
• Understand economies of scale
• Encourage pupils and children voice from the
  outset and throughout the process
• 0-25 service to remove sharp transition
• Use best practice and where it has worked e.g.
  aiming high, parent forums
• Balance of localism / nationalism
• Importance of involving families from the outset
  and throughout the process

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Types of support

• Sharing learning between pathfinders
• Facilitation
• Brokering
• Specialist Advice
• Organisational, process and system design
• Project management
• Interim management