LOCALITY WORKING

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LOCALITY WORKING

• Gwen Gilmore
• Locality Manager
• Camborne, Pool and Redruth

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INTEGRATED CHILDRENS SERVICES FRAMEWORK
Improving outcomes for children and young people
in Cornwall by enabling organisations to work
better and more closely together
New Priorities New Structures New
Approaches

• Children Young Peoples Plan for 2008 -11
  identified 8 new strategic priorities
• Programme established to redesign Childrens
  Services and enable integrated delivery
• Partnership approach with a wide range of
  agencies including - Schools, Social care,
  Police, Health, LSC, Voluntary Sector

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CREATING THE NEW STRUCTURES

• The New Political Map
• Unitary Authority for Cornwall from April 2009.
• 19 Community Network Panels created to deliver
  the new localism agenda

• Childrens Services Structures
• New Children, Schools and Families leadership
  team, 3 Head of Service (area)
• Staffing Structure to support local delivery
  including 8 new Locality Manager posts.
• 19 Childrens Community Network Partnerships
  (CCNP) to provide integrated planning and
  delivery of childrens services at local level

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Children, Schools Families Camborne Redruth
Locality Area Locality Manager Gwen
GilmoreEmail ggilmore_at_cornwall.gov.uk Tel 01209
721410
Community Network Manager Camborne Redruth
Mark James mjames2_at_cornwall.gov.uk 07528
983265
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Building on Good Practice Moving Forward
Core Purpose To secure improved ECM outcomes
through integrated planning and delivery of
Childrens Services at a Community Network Level

• Childrens Community Network Partnership
  membership- reps from
• Education
• Voluntary Sector
• Community
• Health
• CSA
• Community Network Manager
• Elected Members
• Rep from Children/Y.P parents

Extended Services Group Initiate monitor action
plans in response to CCNP priorities

• Range of Local Partnership Groups e.g.
• Behaviour Partnerships

Support for Vulnerable Children Young People
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• Services for Children, Young People and their
  families, age 0 19 and beyond for disabled
  children
• Covering three Community Networks Camborne and
  Redruth

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Team Makeup

• Large multi-skilled team
• Early Years Support
• Universal Services
• Targeted Services
• Services for Disabled Children
• Youth Services
• Family Information Services

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Early Years Support

• Based around the Childrens Centre networks
• Statutory duty to support childcare services
  quality, sufficiency, business planning,
  including disabled children
• Includes after school support

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Universal Services

• Based around the Childrens Centre networks
• Centre based and outreach activities
• Strong focus on partnerships with Health and Job
  Centre Plus
• Modelling good play and education to parents
• Toy Library

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What is a Childrens Centre?

• Integrated childcare and early education
• Support for childminders
• Parenting education and family support
• Education, training and employment services
• Health services
• Family Information Service advice and access to
  wider services

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Targeted Services

• Based around Childrens Centre networks
• Family Support team working with Tier 2
  (Vulnerable) families
• Close links to CAF and Early Support
• Close links with other agencies Social Care,
  Parent Support Advisers, Barnardos etc

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Additional support for families experiencing
particular challenges

• Among these families may be
• Teenage parents
• Lone parents
• Families living in poverty
• Workless households
• Parents with mental health, drug or alcohol
  problems
• Families with a parent in prison
• Families from minority ethnic communities
• Families with asylum seekers
• Parents with disabled children
• Parents with learning difficulties

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Services for Disabled Children

• Social Work team
• Respite
• Care planning
• Direct Payments

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Youth Services

• The Youth Offer promotes access to a wide range
  of high quality places to go and things to do,
  with the added opportunity of someone to talk to
  if you need information, support or guidance.

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Family InformationService

• The one stop information point for
• Children find out about fun activities
• where you live
• Young people information just for you
• Families registered childcare and
• family support services
• Practitioners signposting to services
• across Cornwall

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Thank you!

• Gwen Gilmore
• 01209721410
• ggilmore_at_cornwall.gov.uk