INTEGRATED CHILDRENS SERVICES

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INTEGRATED CHILDRENS SERVICES

• What does it all mean?

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INTEGRATION OF CHILDRENS SERVICES

• To enable the implementation of Children Act 2004
• Common Assessment Framework
• Information sharing
• Clear accountability
• Common core skills
• ECM Five outcomes
• To enable Gershon efficiency savings
• To respond to the requirements of APA and JAR
• To support children and young people to have the
  best start in life.

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WHY THE INTEGRATION OF CHILDRENS SERVICES IS
REQUIRED

• Primary objectives of placing the child/young
  person at the centre of what we do and build
  support around children/young people and families
• Pathfinder Childrens Trust Ends 31 March 2006
• Need for wider integration of Childrens Services
• Key components of the integration
• Shared priorities
• Getting it right the first time
• Understanding each other
• Best use of skills available
• Best use of existing resources

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INTEGRATED CHILDRENS SERVICES

• Childrens Trust Pathfinder 2004
• Children and Young Peoples Coordination Groups
• Bridlington and Driffield
• Beverley
• Wolds and Dales
• Goole
• Haltemprice
• Holderness

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Role of the Co-ordination Group
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EXAMPLES OF GOOD PRACTICE BRIDLINGTON

• Bridlington Access Fund
• Small amounts of funding to voluntary community
  groups - 250 max
• Examples of grants for equipment etc
• 250 chess equipment for after-school chess club
• 230 outdoor play equipment for rainbow brownies
• 242 to help 90 children enter cricket
  competition by purchasing essential equipment

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EXAMPLES OF GOOD PRACTICE - GOOLE

• Snaith Cowick Playschemes
• Rural isolation
• Access to other leisure activities very limited
• Wide range of activities/outings
• 146 children and young people regularly attended
• Excellent evaluation by children young people

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ENJOY ACHIEVE

• Lack of facilities for play and meeting areas,
• Lack of after-school and holiday activities
• Support for children and young people with
  additional needs
• Lack of provision for children and young people
  from the travelling communities
• Inclusive access to play and leisure
  activities/facilities
• Isolated young people not in education,
  employment or training (NEETs)
• More childcare provision needed
• Reducing crime and antisocial behaviour

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BEING HEALTHY

• Access to health information and services, more
  school nurses, transport needs
• Access to Children and Adolescent Mental Health
  Services (CAMHS)
• Teenage pregnancy and sexual health
• Healthy lifestyles (diet and exercise)
• Improving emotional health and well-being
• Support for children and young people who have
  siblings with disabilities or those who are young
  carers
• Breakfast clubs
• Behaviour issues

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STAYING SAFE

• Access to early intervention services offering
  support to parents/carers
• Crime and Anti-social behaviour
• Sexual health
• Bullying
• Road traffic safety
• Alcohol misuse
• Supporting parents to keep their children safe
• Reduction in substance/alcohol misuse
• Issues connected to domestic violence
• Supporting families to ensure children are able
  to live within their own family
• Housing/accommodation for vulnerable young people
• Services for children on Autistic Disorder
  Spectrum
• Home School Links

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MAKE A POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION

• Support for parents, children and young people
  who are at risk of school and educational
  exclusion and isolation
• Reduce level of anti-social behaviour in rural
  settings involve young people in local decision
  making, as well as local communities
• Support for ethnic minorities
• Joint approach and strong links between school
  councils, youth assembly and childrens
  participation team
• Create and promote opportunities for volunteers
• Parenting support, including healthy eating
  advice for parents and their families
• Transport issues

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ACHIEVE ECONOMIC WELL-BEING

• Reduce number of young people where isolated and
  alienated due to rural isolation
• Low level of opportunities in skilled employment
  resulting in older teenagers planning to leave
  the area
• Low numbers of affordable housing in the area for
  young people
• Opportunities for accredited learning
• Improving opportunities for learning and
  employment
• Reduced numbers of young people not in education,
  employment or training (NEETs)
• Financial Deprivation

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VOLUNTARY SECTORFINDINGS

• Arch Deaconry Youth Service
• Christ Church Youth Services
• CSV North Millennium Volunteers project
• Driffield Youth Action
• Havenfield Pop In Pop Out
• Hull East Yorkshire MIND Old Parcels Office
  project
• KIDS
• Nafferton World of Youth

• Rural Participation Worker
• Girlguiding East Riding
• Boothferry Road Community Project
• The Hinge Day Centre
• Goole Coomunity Centre and Youth Drop In
• Humberside Scouts
• Goole Howdenshire Youth Initiative
• Holderness Youth Initiative

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WE FIT IN WITH THE EVERY CHILD MATTERS OUTCOMES

• Strengths and Achievements
• Being Healthy physical, emotional mental
  health, sexual, spiritual
• Enjoy Achieve Having fun, creative and
  sporting activities, new learning opportunities,
  social activities, volunteering
• Staying Safe Provide a place to go where
  children and young people can be safe
• Making a Positive Contribution Youth committees
  and councils, links with East Riding Youth
  Assembly, volunteering accreditation, community
  projects
• Achieve Economic Well-being Accessible events
  and activities which offer new learning
  opportunities and possible accreditation

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WE FIT IN WITH THE EVERY CHILD MATTERS OUTCOMES

• Barriers to Further Development
• Lack of time
• Lack of funding
• Lack of resources
• Lack of volunteers
• Lack of expertise to deliver activities and
  sessions
• Lack of accessible training
• Transport issues re rural isolation
• Identifying safe projects for young people to
  participate in

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WE WORK WELL WITH OTHER ORGANISATIONS TO DELIVER
SERVICES AND HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP

• Strengths and Achievements
• East Riding (council for) Voluntary Youth
  Services
• East Riding Youth Service and Sports Development
  working with various voluntary and community
  youth groups
• Links with local development agency and resource
  centres
• East Riding College
• Local Schools
• Extended Schools co-ordinators
• Links with local health initiatives
• Some shared training between services
• Some shared resources and venues between services

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WE WORK WELL WITH ORGANISATIONS BOTH STATUTORY
AND VOLUNTARY AND HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP

• Barriers to further Development
• Accessibility of meetings time and location
• Different objectives within childrens services
• Time needed to monitor and evaluate outputs
• Lack of understanding of each others services
• Stereotypical image of voluntary services
• Lack of services and strategic support to work
  with disabled children and young people
• Clarity needed on which organisation provides
  which service and who to go to for what

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WE WORK WELL WITH OTHER CHILDRENS SERVICES TO
IMPROVE THINGS FOR THE FUTURE OF CHILDREN AND
YOUNG PEOPLE WITH REGARD TO THE EVERY CHILD
MATTERS OUTCOMES

• Strengths and Achievements
• East Riding (council for) Voluntary Youth
  Services
• The North Bank Forum
• Humber Wolds Rural Community Council
• Youth Governance Meetings and other Local
  Management Committees
• Children and Young Peoples Co-ordination Groups
• Work with the faith youth sector
• Work with disabled childrens services strategic
  forum
• Work with local town and parish councils
• Work with East Riding of Yorkshire local authority

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WE WORK WELL WITH OTHER CHILDRENS SERVICES TO
IMPROVE THINGS FOR THE FUTURE OF CHILDREN AND
YOUNG PEOPLE WITH REGARD TO THE EVERY CHILD
MATTERS OUTCOMES

• Barriers to further Development
• Accessibility of meetings time and location
• Lack of understanding of the diverse range of
  skills and resources within the voluntary youth
  sector
• Lack of volunteers interested in working with
  other services
• Lack of capacity and support to address the needs
  of the voluntary organisation to enable them to
  work in partnership
• Too much emphasis placed on the local
  Co-ordination Groups
• The time and energy needed to work in partnership
  with other services, we are volunteers after all!

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WE WORK WELL WITH VOLUNTARY UMBRELLA BODIES

• Strengths and Achievements
• Useful sources of information events,
  newsletters, e-bulletins
• Advice and support services
• Local Development Agency
• HEROS website (Hull East Riding Options)
• Partnership co-ordinators (Children, young people
  and families, Older people, carers and BME,
  Physical disabilities
• Rural Strategic Partnership and Rural Pathfinder
• Links with Local Authority and Health
• COMPACT
• Representation

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WE WORK WELL WITH VOLUNTARY UMBRELLA BODIES

• Barriers to Further Development
• Too many local development agencies
• Not enough clarity on who does what
• Information not always available to smaller
  groups
• Competition between organisations accessing
  funding, rather than working together on joint
  bids
• Lack of accessible meetings time and venue
• Not enough information and promotion of what they
  provide as a service

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GROUP EXERCISE

• In groups of five, please look at the
  following statements and think of one thing each
  you could note as a Strength Achievement and
  also as a Barrier. After 20 minutes well feed
  back.
• WE FIT IN WITH THE EVERY CHILD MATTERS OUTCOMES
• WE WORK WELL WITH ORGANISATIONS BOTH STATUTORY
  AND VOLUNTARY AND HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP
• WE WORK WELL WITH OTHER CHILDRENS SERVICES TO
  IMPROVE THINGS FOR THE FUTURE OF CHILDREN AND
  YOUNG PEOPLE WITH REGARD TO THE EVERY CHILD
  MATTERS OUTCOMES
• WE WORK WELL WITH VOLUNTARY UMBRELLA BODIES

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East Riding (council for) Voluntary Youth Services

• Detty Tyler
• ERCVYS
• Morleys House
• Morleys Yard
• Walkergate
• Beverley
• East Riding of Yorkshire
• HU17 9BY
• Tel [phone]
• Email detty_at_nbforum.org.uk