Strategic Needs Analysis in Childrens Services

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Strategic Needs Analysis in Childrens Services

• SSRG Annual Workshop
• 8th April 2008
• David Onions
• Andrew Rudd
• Worcestershire County Council

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Introduction

• Who we are/About Worcestershire
• Environmental Context
• Sustainable Community Strategy/Local Area
  Agreement
• Comprehensive Performance Assessment
• Joint Area Review
• Inspection of Adult Services
• What we have done
• Joint Strategic Needs Analysis
• Cluster Profiles
• Instant Atlas
• Example of what the data shows and how it is used

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Who we are Research Intelligence

• Planning, Economy and Performance (PEP)
  Directorate
• Areas of work, include
• Market Research e.g. Citizens Panel, BIG
  Questionnaire
• Population forecasting
• Needs Analysis e.g. Children, Health, Crime
• Evaluation e.g. Childrens Fund, Youth Inclusion
  and Support Programme
• Performance Management

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About Worcestershire

• Basic facts
• Six Districts (Bromsgrove, Malvern Hills,
  Redditch, Worcester City, Wychavon, Wyre Forest)
• Population around 553,000 (70.5 Urban, 29.5
  Rural)
• Children of school age approximately 82,000
• Schools 250
• Ranked 114th of the 149 County and Unitary
  Authorities in England according to the Indices
  of Deprivation 2007.

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What will Worcestershire be like when Im ten?

• Sustainable Community Strategy
• Partnership Towards Excellence A Community
  Strategy for Worcestershire 2003-2013
• Second edition currently being developed for
  2008-2013
• Will be signed off by Worcestershire Partnership
  Board in July
• Priorities include Health and Children and Young
  People
• Local Area Agreement
• Worcestershire in Round Two of First LAA
  (2006-2009)
• Developing new LAA for 2008-2011
• Improvement targets
• Evidence base
• Strategic Needs Analyses

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CPA - Corporate Assessment

• The Corporate Assessment part of CPA process
  focuses on the importance of a sound Corporate
  Engine to drive good services.
• Measures how effectively the Council is working
• Corporately,
• With its partners,
• To improve services, and
• To deliver improved outcomes for local people

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CPA 2005 - Framework
4 STARS IMPROVING WELL
3/4 in 2005
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The 2008 Assessment

• On-site inspection late June/early July
• Will cover
• Ambition, Prioritisation, Capacity, Performance
  Management
• Achievement against priorities e.g
• Older people, Children and young people
• Fundamental basis to this assessment is
• Clear and communicated ambitions
• Good intelligence gathering
• Clear causal link between vision, priorities and
  plans
• Priorities that take into account all needs of
  the community
• Resources directed at priorities individuals,
  teams, directorates
• Clear and accurate information, analysis,
  actions, targets

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Joint Area Review (1)

• A single coordinated inspection of all services
  for children and young people in Worcestershire
• Major inspection held every 3 years
• Ofsted led, but includes health, former social
  care, former education and adult learning
  inspectors
• Held at same time as CPA Corporate Assessment and
  Youth Offending Service inspection

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Joint Area Review (2)

• Key Questions
• What is it like for children and young people
  growing up in Worcestershire?
• How well do services work together to improve
  outcomes for children and young people? What is
  our collective IMPACT?
• Fundamental to this is a self-assessment based
  upon
• Joint Strategic Assessment Of Need For Children,
  Young People And Families In Worcestershire Jan
  2008
• New Children and Young Peoples Plan April 2008

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Adult Social Care Inspection

• Commission for Social Care Inspection
• Self-Assessment Survey
• Joint Commissioning with Childrens Services and
  Health
• Joint Commissioning Project Board
• Need for shared evidence base
• Joint Strategic Needs Analysis

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What we have done
Needs Analyses
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What we have done

• Joint Strategic Needs Analysis
• Requirement of Local Government and Public
  Involvement In Health Bill
• Separate documents for Adults and Children
• Shared evidence base
• Cluster Profiles (bringing it together)
• Instant Atlas (common data)

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How we did it(1)

• Collected lots of data
• Currently approximately 150 datasets included
• Will be 250 datasets when complete
• Data from
• Across Worcestershire County Council
• Local Partners (e.g. Worcestershire PCT)
• National data sources (e.g. 2001 Census, DWP)
• Data at
• Postcode for individual people
• Lower Super Output Area
• Local Authority

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How we did it(2)

• Analysed the data
• Tidied data from providers
• Aggregated data to Lower Layer Super Output Area
• Produced our Analysis Products
• School and Community Cluster Profiles
• Clusters group together schools that should be
  working closely together
• Based on school pyramids
• Childrens Services Instant Atlas
• At Lower Layer Super Output Area level

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School and Community Cluster Profiles (1)

• What are they?
• Short documents produced for each of the 12
  cluster areas
• Summarise datasets
• Draw comparisons with County averages and other
  clusters
• Why produce them?
• To describe different parts of Worcestershire
• To highlight challenges for different school
  cluster areas
• To help with planning for Extended
  Services/Extended Schools
• To be share information with partners

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School and Community Cluster Profiles (2)
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Instant Atlas

• What is Instant Atlas?
• A software package that
• visually presents spatial information
• shares data via the Internet without the need for
  additional specialist software (except SVG
  Viewer, or Flash Player depending on version)
• Why have we used it?
• To share local level residence based data (Lower
  Super Output Area Level) that can be used
• to identify specific issues affecting local
  communities
• to assist in the planning of services for
  children and young people
• P.S We have used Instant Atlas for some years,
  so no additional cost

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Potential Issues

• What does the data show?
• According to the Index of Multiple Deprivation
  2004, the most deprived Super Output Area in the
  County is Gorse Hill and Old Warndon.
• This falls in Worcester City.

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Potential Issues

• What does the data show?
• Key Stage 1 attainment appears to be below the
  comparable figure for all Worcestershire schools.

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Potential Issues

• What does the data show?
• The percentage of 16-18's Not in Education,
  Employment and Training is somewhat above the
  County total.

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How have these products been used?

• Childrens Services to inform the CYPP and the
  JAR
• Extended Services for use in planning by
  schools and other providers
• Headteachers to plan Extended Schools
  activities to meet needs of their pupils, parents
  and communities
• To provide evidence to support local knowledge

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Problems

• Speed
• With 150 datasets, operation of the atlas was
  slow
• Solution upgrade product
• Sensitive data
• Solution password protection, limited access
• Cross-border issues
• 4.1 of pupils attending schools in
  Worcestershire live outside of the County
  (Bromsgrove 11, 1,267 pupils)
• 7.0 of pupils attending schools in one cluster
  area, live in another cluster area

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Future Work

• Use Instant Atlas as a common tool for displaying
  data
• e.g. for Local Area Agreement monitoring
• Improve the speed of the Atlas
• Add further datasets
• Resolve cross-border issues
• Liase with users in order to improve the service
  offered
• Update data and profiles

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Further Information and Contacts
Further information www.worcestershire.gov.uk/ch
sneeds Contacts David Onions (Research
Manager) donions_at_worcestershire.gov.uk Tel 01905
766712 Andrew Rudd (Principal Research
Officer) arudd_at_worcestershire.gov.uk Tel 01905
766713