Childrens Plan Building Brighter Futures

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Childrens Plan Building Brighter Futures
Frank Offer Policy Public Affairs January 2008
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Childrens Plan - Key Themes

• Secure the health and well-being of children and
  young people
• Safeguard the young and vulnerable
• Achieve world class standards
• Close the gap in educational achievement
• Ensure participation and achievement to age 18
  and beyond
• Keep children and young people on the path to
  success

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Childrens Plan Five principles

• Government does not bring up children parents
  do government needs to do more to back parents
  and families
• All children have the potential to succeed and
  should go as far as their talents can take them
• Children and young people need to enjoy their
  childhood as well as growing up prepared for
  adult life
• Services need to be shaped by and responsive to
  children, young people and families, not designed
  around professional boundaries
• It is always better to prevent failure than
  tackle a crisis later

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Childrens Plan Stages in Development

• Time to talk consultation
• 3 expert groups
• 0 7
• 8 13
• 14 19
• Analysis of findings
• Evidence document children and young people
  today

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Childrens Plan Overview

• 1 billion allocated over 3 years
• 75 proposals
• - 12 re-stated
• - 10 early 2008
• - 13 Spring 2008
• - 5 Summer 2008
• - 1 2009/10
• - 1 2011
• - 35 undated

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Childrens Plan proposed goals for 2020

• enhance children and young peoples wellbeing,
  particularly at key transition points in their
  lives
• every child ready for success in school, with at
  least 90 developing well across all areas of the
  early Years Foundation Stage Profile by age 5
• every child ready for secondary school, with at
  least 90 achieving at or above the expected
  level in both English and mathematics by age 11
• every young person with the skills for adult life
  and further study, with at least 90 achieving
  the equivalent of five higher level GCSEs by the
  age 19 and at least 70 achieving the equivalent
  of two A levels by age 19

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Childrens Plan - proposed goals for 2020

• parents satisfied with the information and
  support they receive
• all young people participating in positive
  activities to develop personal and social skills,
  promote wellbeing and reduce behaviour that puts
  them at risk
• employers satisfied with young peoples readiness
  for work
• child health improved, with the proportion of
  obese and overweight children reduced to 2000
  levels
• child poverty halved by 2010 and eradicated by
  2020and
• significantly reduce by 2020 the number of young
  offenders receiving a conviction,reprimand,or
  final warning for a recordable offence for the
  first time, with a goal to be in the Youth Crime
  Action Plan

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Childrens Plan - Happy and Healthy

• Children young peoples Health Strategy
  Spring 2008.
• Child Poverty Unit to address renewed commitment
  to halve child poverty by 2010 and eradicate it
  by 2020.
• Parenting advisers (2 per LA) and school-based
  Parent Support Advisers (to reach 10-15 schools
  per LA).
• Childrens Workforce Action Plan (early 2008) to
  address recruitment and retention.
• More safe places for children to play - 225m
  over 3 years.
• Support for children in care, young carers,
  disabled children and those in most disadvantaged
  areas.

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Childrens Plan - Safe and Sound

• Staying Safe Action Plan (early 2008).
• Public review of risks from internet and video
  games.
• Assess impact of commercial world on childrens
  well-being.
• Fund home safety equipment scheme.
• Encourage creation of 20 mph zones.
• Strengthen complaints procedures for bullying
• Invest in Childline NSPCC helpline services
  (30m over 4 years).
• Establish independent Safeguarding Authority.

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Childrens Plan - Excellence and equity

• 90 children developing well in all areas of
  Early Years Foundation Stage Profile by age 5.
• 90 children at or above expected levels in
  English and Maths by age 11.
• Public Service Agreements and statutory targets
  in Local Area Agreements.
• Extended Services - 265m (previously announced)
• Increasing parental involvement and family
  learning
• More personalised teaching and learning
• Assessment for Learning and Single level tests
• Setting streaming for particular subjects, not
  across curriculum
• Raise attainment for children with special
  learning needs (18m over 3 years)

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Childrens Plan Excellence and equity
- by Phase

• Secondary
• Personal tutor for every child by 2010
• Parents Councils
• Parental involvement before child starts
  secondary school
• More information for parents
• Streamline and strengthen arrangements for
  responding to parents complaints
• New stage not age tests could replace Key Stage
  tests at ages 11 and 14

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Childrens Plan Excellence and equity
- by phase

• Primary
• National support programmes -Every Child a
  Writer, Every Child Counts, Every Child a Reader(
  rolls out over the next 3 years) one to one
  coaching/small group
• Incentives to schools to support gifted and
  talented learners
• Primary Curriculum Review, dovetailing with the
  early years
• Targets for 2011 narrowing the gap between
  pupils from low income families and their peers
  at KS2, increasing the the proportion of pupils
  progressing by 2 levels at KS2, LAC achieving
  level 4 in English and Maths at KS2.
• Personalisation in the Early Years Foundation
  Stage
• By 2010 all children entitled to 15 hours of free
  early education per week
• Improved transition and personalisation

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Childrens Plan Leadership and Collaboration

• Early Years Graduate Leader Fund
• Teaching to become Masters level profession
• Leadership
• Childrens Centre Managers to take NPQICI
  (National Professional Qualification in
  Integrated Centre Leadership)
• Redesigned NPQH (National Professional
  Qualification for Headship) from 2008
• 0-7 Partnerships in small number of areas within
  Childrens Trusts
• Consultation on reducing size of governing bodies
• New role and guidance for Childrens Trusts
• Behaviour Partnerships for Secondary schools
  possible requirement
• Improve alternative learning provision e.g.
  Studio schools

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Childrens Plan Staying on

• Restatements of commitment to education or
  training to age 17 by 2013 and age 18 by 2015
• By 2020, 90 young people to achieve 5 or more
  GCSEs A-C or equivalent by age 19
• By 2020 70 young people to achieve 2 A Levels or
  equivalent by age 19
• Entry to Learning programme to re-engage those
  young people not in learning post 16
• Re-statement of proposal to transfer functions
  and funding for 16-19 year olds from LSC
  (Learning Skills Council) to Local Authorities

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Childrens Plan On the right track

• Building on the Ten Year Strategy for Positive
  Activities
• Entitlement for young people to participate in
  Positive Activities
• Youth Alcohol Action Plan ( Spring 2008)
• Youth Crime Action Plan (2008)
• Measures to build community resilience and reduce
  extremism

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Childrens Plan Making it happen

• High expectations for Childrens Trusts
• Childrens Trusts to deliver measurable
  improvements for children and young people
• Early intervention for children and young people
  who need additional help
• Monitor Childrens Trusts and consider
  strengthened role
• We will examine whether Childrens Trust
  arrangements need to be strengthened, including
  by further legislation
• Strengthen accountability
• Childrens Trusts
• Childrens Centres
• Schools
• Health
• Police
• Childrens Workforce Plan
• Changing culture and practice
• Investment in action - 1 billion over 3 years

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Childrens Plan Next Steps

• Exercise in matching the proposals in the
  Childrens Plan with current activity in Surrey-
  identify gaps.
• - Current Children and Young Peoples Plan
  (review after
• JAR and new guidance on local Children and
  Young
• Peoples Plans due in the spring-
  prob in the summer term)
• - New Local Area Agreement priorities
• - Statutory requirements
• - SDA (Four S)
• - Surrey learning Strategy
• Raise awareness
• Assess implications
• Establish what needs to be done and look at
  capacity and
• accountability