JOINT AREA REVIEW

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JOINT AREA REVIEW

• REPORT FEEDBACK SUMMARY AND UPDATE

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Process

• Draft report went through scrutiny and challenge
  process within OFSTED and other inspectorates
• Report draft came to Local Authority and was
  checked for accuracy by Council and partners
• Further meeting of Council JAR leads with lead
  inspector to review draft
• Final report presented to lead reps from Partner
  agencies, Council and elected members

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Context

• Report now in public domain
• Available and accessible
• Reported on in press
• Disseminating key messages for all staff across
  partnership
• Moving on from JAR at pace

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Be Healthy Strengths

• Children and young people generally healthy
• Effective parent support programmes
• Implemented a range of effective strategies which
  have had an impact of health outcomes
• Implemented some effective strategies that have
  had an impact on health promotion
• Some effective work for specific groups within
  our community

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Be Healthy Areas for Improvement

• Oral health outcomes
• Increased preventative work and improve outcomes
  in some areas
• Child Health surveillance
• CAMHS Service issues
• Further development of joint working on
  commissioning

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Stay Safe Emerging Strengths

• ARCS / Common Assessment Framework development
• Strategic Partnership arrangements
• CRB Compliance
• Provision for Looked After Children/Children and
  Young People with Learning Difficulty and
  Disability
• Early intervention policy beginning to have impact

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Stay Safe Areas for Improvement

• Timeliness and quality of assessments and
  decision making
• Quality assuring safeguarding policy and practice
• Partnership arrangements responding to Domestic
  Violence

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Enjoy and Achieve Emerging Strengths

• School improvement impact in some areas
• Young peoples views about schools and education
• Information of parents and carers
• Targeting of early years provision
• Using data
• Variety of approaches to support raising
  standards
• Inclusion approach and practice

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Enjoy/Achieve Areas for Improvement

• Prioritising education more explicitly
• Improving support to schools in some targeted
  areas
• School placement, admissions and forward planning
• Support for pupils from BME communities
• Range of sport, leisure and cultural facilities

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Positive Contribution Emerging Strengths

• Emotional and social development support
  programmes for parents and children
• Voluntary sector support
• Youth Cabinet and some work on voice of CYP
• Mentoring arrangements
• Aspects of tackling anti-social behaviour and
  tackling offending
• Support for some vulnerable groups
• Support for LAC and Leaving Care

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Positive ContributionAreas for Improvement

• Breadth of consultation and engagement of
  Children and Young People
• Raising aspirations of children, young people and
  their families
• Work to address race and hate crime issues
• Support for Young Carers
• Waiting lists for some therapeutic services

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Economic Well BeingEmerging Strengths

• Support for families and parents/carers of
  younger children
• Some aspects of youth provision for EWB
• Support from Connexions
• Some aspects of progress at 14-19
• Support for young people with learning
  difficulties and disabilities

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Economic Well-BeingAreas for Improvement

• Numbers of young people in Education, Employment
  or Training
• Overall outcomes and progress at 14-19
• Take up and access to work based learning
• Provision for young people with LDD

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Overall Judgements
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Bigger PictureKey Themes

• The Thurrock Agenda
• Borough wide change
• Multi-agency practice
• Performance management
• Involvement of young people
• Plans and strategies

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Bigger Picture Key Messages

• Good feedback from CYP
• Platform for the future
• Post-Jar measures well underway
• Positive and timely moves forward already