INTRODUCING THE JOINT AREA REVIEW

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INTRODUCINGTHE JOINT AREA REVIEW
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JARGON

• Q
• When is a door not a door ?
• A
• When its a .. JAR!

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Whats it all about?

• Children Services
• 0 19s
• 0 25 ( Special Needs )

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The Framework

• Joint Inspection team
• thorough rigorous
• 40 judgement areas

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Who will be Jarred?

• Organisations in receipt of public funds or
  resources which provide services for children ie.
• Council Services, PCT, NHS, VCS, Police
  Service, private providers

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The Contents

• Jam or pickles?
• Bottle-necks?
• Vacuum packed?

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Vital Statistics

• Outcomes
• Impact
• Self assessment

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Prevention

• Outcomes
• What difference do you make in the life of a
  child?

• Outputs
• What are you doing?

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Every Child Matters

• Where do you fit?

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Outcomes

• Be Healthy
• Stay Safe
• Enjoy and Achieve
• Make a Positive Contribution
• Achieve Economic Well-Being

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Make a Positive Contribution

• Engage in decision making and support the
  community and environment
• Voluntary and community engagement
• Involvement Initiative - Engagement

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Enjoy and Achieve

• Achieve personal and social development and
  enjoy
  recreation
• Take up of cultural and sporting opportunities
  among under 16s

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Self Assessment

• How well are we doing?
• What are our strengths and weaknesses?
• How well do we cater for our most vulnerable
  children?

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Joint Working

• How well are we all working together?
• How well do we consult?
• Managers/ front line/ service users/ community
  and voluntary sector/ other partners?

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Strategic Links

• Local Compact
• ChangeUp
• Links with representative groups
• Established providers
• Improving capacity

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Preparations

• Team self assessments
• Consultation
• Focus Groups
• Information sharing

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Neighbourhood Study

• Three areas are identified by us. They select
  one/two.
• Feeding into self assessment
• Helping people in the selected communities
  prepare for the neighbourhood study.

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Neighbourhood Study

• Visit meet children and young people, local
  services (schools, health centres, projects
  etc..)
• Get a real feel for the area

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Case files review

• Potential list of cases to be reviewed
• Undertake our own review
• External scrutiny
• We present 100
• They will pick ten

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The Model

• Review Groups
• Neighbourhood Study Group
• Team Self Assessment Mk i Mk ii
• Conferences
• Peer review

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Timeframe

• Self assessment report completed - September
• Analysis week - early November
• Fieldwork visits (two weeks)
• 27 November 8 Dec.

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Who will they meet?

• Week one
• individual cases meetings with service users,
  frontline staff neighbourhood study
• Week two
• meetings with managers, Councillors,
• senior officers, effectiveness of
  partnerships, strategies, systems and processes.
• Feedback.

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Ongoing benefits

• Continuous improvements
• Enhanced joint working
• User satisfaction