Joining the Dots

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Joining the Dots

• The Childrens Plan National Strategy Local
  Delivery

Steve Walker Principal Consultant Children and
Young People
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The Childrens Plan Building brighter futures
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The Childrens Plan What does it do?

• Sets out the Governments ambitions for Children
  and young people
• Our aim is to make this the best place in the
  world for our children to grow up in
• Brings together for the first time at a national
  level all policy for children and young people
  aged 0 19
• Sets out the work plan for the Department for
  Children Schools and Families

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The Childrens Plan The DotsPositive view of
Young People

• Positive  in  tone  about  the  contributions  
• children  and  young people  make  to  their
  communities  and  society  as  a  whole -
  building on Aiming High
• Importance of involving children and young people
  and developing informed services
• Funding to enable children and young people to
  engage in positive activities

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The Childrens Plan The DotsEmphasis on Families

• The Childrens Plan emphasises the role that
  families have in bringing up children and the
  need for services to be responsive to their needs
• More than ever before families will be at the
  centre of excellent integrated services that put
  their interests first
• Links to Think Family

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The Childrens Plan The DotsEmphasis on Enjoy
(as well as achieve)

• Providing opportunities for children and young
  people to engage in positive activities
• Need to have access to a variety of experiences
  and managed risk
• Active and healthier childhoods
• Building resilience

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The Childrens Plan The DotsNarrowing the Gap

• The plan recognises that some groups are
  disadvantaged and announces a number of measures
  intended to address this
• Joint CWP and DCSF Child Poverty Unit
• Housing Action Plan
• Targeted resources for disadvantaged areas e.g.
  Sure Start Advisors, Playgrounds, safety
  equipment,

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The Childrens Plan The DotsThe Role of Local
Authorities

• Local authorities need to understand and champion
  the needs of local communities
• Need to provide the strategic overview and
  direction
• Need to shape services to meet local needs
• Builds on The Local Government White Paper
  Stronger More Prosperous Communities

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The Childrens Plan The DotsCommunity Cohesion

• Emphasis on the importance of citizenship and
  community empowerment to building cohesion
• Understanding of different groups within the
  community based on reality not perception
• Opportunities for children and young people to
  engage positively with different groups
• Builds on The Governments Response to the
  Commission on Integration and Cohesion, Education
  and Inspection Act 2006

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The Childrens Plan The Space between the Dots

• It is not a national equivalent of Local
  Authority Children and Young Peoples Plans
• It has to be actively interpreted
• Mixture of key policies, bright ideas and very
  specific initiatives
• It is too detailed and too vague
• Why not use the 5 Outcomes
• It is a plan from The Department for Children,
  Schools and Families

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The Childrens Plan The Space between the Dots

• Emphasises Local authorities role as key
  strategic player in partnerships but does not
  address
• Autonomy of partners including schools
• Performance Indicators
• Inspection regime

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The Childrens Plan The Space between the Dots

• Requires good quality intelligence about local
  community on which to plan services
• Requires effective systems in place to involve
  children, young people and families in decision
  making about service design and delivery
  particularly those from disadvantaged communities
  and hard to reach groups

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The Childrens Plan The Space between the Dots

• Narrowing the Gap
• Need to know not only the size of the Gap but why
  it is there and what is the most effective way of
  narrowing it (information on what works at
  national and local levels)
• Need to understand that some Gaps are small in
  width but large in depth there may be no quick
  wins
• Need to ensure that services are targeted this
  may involve difficult decisions about priorities
  and resources which may not be popular

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The Childrens Plan Joining the Dots

• DONT PANIC
• Remember "A hoopy frood always knows where his
  towel is"
• The Childrens Plan is not asking us to do
  anything differently it does not establish any
  new structures it requires us to use the ones
  that we have more effectively

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The Childrens Plan Joining the Dots

• Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
• A Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) is the
  means by which Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and
  local authorities will describe the future
  health, care and well-being needs of local
  populations and the strategic direction of
  service delivery to meet those needs.
• JSNAs form the basis of a new duty to co-operate
  for PCTs and local authorities that is contained
  in the current Local Government and Public
  Involvement in Health Bill.
• JSNAs will take account of data and information
  on inequalities between the differing, and
  overlapping, communities in local areas and
  support the meeting of statutory requirements in
  relation to equality audits.

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The Childrens Plan Joining the Dots
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The Childrens Plan Joining the Dots

• Does your Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
• Which groups are getting a raw deal?
• How many children are living in poverty?
• What issues are affecting the health of children
  and young people locally?
• Are you spending our money on the right things?
• What illnesses are people living with?
• What illnesses people living with that makes
  their lives difficult?
• What help do the groups who are getting a raw
  deal want and need?
• Where do the groups getting a raw deal live?

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The Childrens Plan Joining the Dots

• Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
• provide analyses of data to show the health and
  well-being status of local communities
• define where inequities exist, and
• use local community views and evidence of
  effectiveness of interventions to
• shape the future investment and disinvestment
  services.

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The Childrens Plan Joining the Dots

• Local Area Agreement
• Between partners in an area and the Government
• Three years
• Commitment to deliver outcomes gives authorities
  and partners freedom to use money more
  innovatively (freedoms and flexibilities)
• 4 blocks
• Children and young people
• Healthy communities and older people
• Economy and enterprise
• Safer and stronger communities

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The Childrens Plan Joining the Dots

• What should your LAA contain?
• Address needs of disadvantaged areas
• Dealing with obstacles to better outcomes
• Involving the Community and Voluntary Sector
• Outcome framework
• Stretch targets (LPSA style) and reward grant

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The Childrens Plan Joining the Dots

• Some questions about your LAA
• Are your LAAs strengthening governance
  arrangements at local level.
• Have new partnership bodies with teeth been
  established for the initiative and its main
  thematic areas.
• Is it underpinned by good performance management
  arrangements and data sharing.
• Is it supporting partners to take a more
  strategic and targeted approach to joint working.
• Is it supporting strategic commissioning and
  budgetary arrangements?

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Childrens Trust CYPSP
Local Strategic Partnership
CYPP
LAA
Achievement of better outcomes
Needs that Can be met by agencies for children
working together
Needs that Can be met Single agency
Needs that Can be met by all agencies in the
community working together
Strategic Needs Assessment
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The Joined up Picture

• All children in young people in our communities
  are healthy, safe, happy and reach their
  potential