STRATEGIC STAKEHOLDER GROUP6th November 2008

Hertfordshire Children’s Trust Partnership

STRATEGIC STAKEHOLDER GROUP6th November 2008

WelcomeJane Pitman - Chairman

Lead Member for Children’s Services

Hertfordshire Children’s Trust Partnership

STRATEGIC STAKEHOLDER GROUP6th November 2008

IntroductionSally Withington (Facilitator)

Children First

Setting the Scene

John Harris (Chair – HCTP Executive Group)

Director of Children’s Services

Setting the Scene

That Was Then…This Is Now

Partnership with Impact

A Simple Plan

On The Horizon –National and Local Challenges

Joint Area Review 2007• Outcomes for children adequate and

improving…BUT• Arrangements to ensure that all children

and young people are safe are inadequate• Overall performance rating for Children’s

Services reduced from good to adequate• Strong service leadership and good

capacity to improve• External support and challenge to

accelerate improvement in social care performance

• Strengthen performance management and impact of key partnerships

Progress…One Year OnProgress…One Year OnGood progress in response to key issues from inspection - ‘safe staffing’, now secure

Improvement in safeguarding and the outcomes for children looked after – ‘Staying Safe’ is now at least ‘adequate’.

Performance management improved significantly - ‘Service Management’ is now ‘good’.

Strong ‘direction of travel’ over past twelve months - ‘adequate’ to ‘good’?

APA to confirm progress

Repositioning HCTP (1)

• review and re-affirm vision• commitment to ‘whole system’

change and integrated practice• fit for purpose partnership

structures with fewer layers and streamlined business processes

• clarity of function: executive, stakeholder engagement, and scrutiny

Repositioning HCTP (2)

• CYPP with fewer priorities and sharper targets

• a ‘golden thread’ from strategy to delivery

• compacts between partners and HCTP/HSCB

• a performance culture with accountability

• a more strategic stakeholder engagement

HCTP Strategic Stakeholder Group

HCTP Executive HertfordshireSafeguarding Children Board

HCC Scrutiny Committee

Herts Forward

Young People’s Board

Crime and Disorder Reduction agenda

County Children and Young Peoples Plan (CYPP) Priorities District CYPPs

Version 7.0

Themes in bold cut across all five ECM outcomes but are placed under one outcome for accountability purposes

Staying safe

Being healthy

Enjoying and

achieving

Making a positive

contribution

Achieving economic wellbeing

District Children’s

Trust Partnerships

Service Management

(Business Support)

C.L.A and Care Leavers

• Bullying

• Childrenwith a Disability

• Emotional Wellbeing & Mental Health

• Healthy Lifestyles

• Standards & School Support

• Early Years

• B.M.E

• CC & ES

• Parenting

• SSOSHL

• 14-19 Strategy

• Childcare Sufficiency

• Child Poverty

• Integrated Youth Support

• Teenage Pregnancy

• Youth Justice

• Substance Misuse

• Workforce

• Performance

• Planning & Commissioning

• Participation

• Budgets

• Communication

• Needs Analysis

• District Plans

CC & ES = Children’s Centres and Extended Schools SSOSHL = Study Support and Out of School Hours Learning

MAST= Multi-Agency Support Team MAT= Multi-Agency Team

Integrated Practice

• CAF

• Lead Professional Arrangements

• MASTs &

MATs

•Contact Point ICS

Outcome Lead for each of Five Outcomes and CYPP priorities

Young People’s Voice

Linked with key partnerships

Holds HCTP to account for its impact in improving safeguarding

Strategic Challenge

Support and Engagement

Golden Thread to CYPP

Top to bottom leadership for

Integrated Practice

CYPP is single, overarching strategy for all children and young people in Hertfordshire

Presents HCTP’s combined vision and aims for all children and young people in Hertfordshire

Children and Young People’s Plan

Children and Young People’s Plan

Shorter and easier to understand

Focused on outcomes for children, not services

Clear accountable actions, leads and timescales

Led and championed by Outcome Leads

Fewer performance indicators

Children and Young People’s Plan

Safeguarding Children and Young People

Narrowing the Gap between Vulnerable and All Children

Service Management

• Happy and Healthy – stronger joint working between NHS and LA, with children’s health a focus for all partners

• Safe and Sound – Staying Safe Action Plan• Excellence and Equity – ‘Narrowing the Gap’ and connecting

schools directly with Children’s Trust and multi-agency working• Leadership and Collaboration – workforce development,

commissioning services that remove barriers to learning• Staying On – 14-19 education and training offer• On the Right Track – Targeted Youth Support• Action on Child Poverty• Youth Crime Action Plan

Children’s Plan sets an agenda for focus of Local Authorities and Partners

‘the new guidance places greater emphasis on driving improved outcomes and promoting cultural change, as the main structural changes should now be substantially in place’

Legislative options under consideration for schools and GPs

Strengthening of Children’s Trusts

• the key change proposition: a systematic framework of preventative and targeted services, through integrated practice

• 38 multi-agency teams around the child linked to Children’s Centres and extended schools consortia

• integrated Youth Support Services, included core teams for targeted youth support

• promoting a shared culture of prevention and early intervention across all agencies

Working differently with Children and Families

Beyond the JAR: Innovation, Development, Ambition

• Top performing Youth Offending Team• Innovative commissioning framework for our 82

Children’s Centres• Youth Connexions Service ‘leading edge’ (TDA)• Pennsylvania Resilience Programme• BSF and Academies• DCSF Pathfinder Projects• Channel MOGO• Child Poverty Target in LAA 2 – led by HCTP