The Children’s Fund
Salford’s
Final
Plan
- Draft
Salford Children’s Services Planning Forum
28 June 2001
Our Commitment
The partners listed below have signed up to the long term aims of the Children’s Fund
and are committed to achieving the outcomes and targets that the Forum has set to
secure the best life chances for Salford’s children and young people.
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CONTENTS PAGE
1. Basic Information
 The partnership
 Accountable Body
 Main Contact for the Partnership
2. Summary
3. Target Areas and Target Groups
4. Activities and Services
 Parenting
 Involving Vulnerable Children
Young People and their Families in
Service Design and Delivery
 Interagency Information System
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Developing Preventative Work in
Schools
 Baseline satisfaction Survey
 Prevention of Offending Behaviour
 Ensuring Children are Free from
the Risk of Harm
5. Identification and Referral
Mechanisms
6. Dialogue with and Involvement of
Children, Young People and Families
7. Objectives, Targets, Milestones and
Outcomes
8. Structure and Management of the
Programme
 The Children’s Services Planning
Forum
 Sub-Groups
 Community Committees
 Children’s Fund Co-ordinator
9. Monitoring
10. Evaluation
11. Communication
12. Money
13. Equal Opportunities
14. Protecting Children from Harm
Appendices
Appendix 1 – Forum Terms of Reference
Appendix 2 – Membership of Forum
Appendix 3 – Mapping of Services
Appendix 4 – Baseline Statistics
Appendix 5 – Prevention Strategy
Appendix 6 – Spending Profile 2001/02
Appendix 7 – Letters of Commitment
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BASIC INFORMATION
The Partnership
The Children’s Services Planning Forum in Salford was originally established to develop
and implement the Children’s Service’s Plan for the City. It is identified in Salford
Partnership’s (Salford’s LSP) Community Plan as the key Partnership for developing
strategies and addressing issues relating to children and young people. We, the Forum,
have agreed to be the Partnership responsible for overseeing the development and
delivery of the Children’s Fund in Salford. The Lead Agency for the Partnership is
Salford City Council.
Chair of the Partnership:
John Willis
Chief Executive,
Salford City Council,
Civic Centre, Chorley Road,
Swinton, Salford M27 5FJ
Tel: 0161-793-3400
FAX: 0161- 793-3435
Email: john.willis@salford.gov.uk
The terms of reference for the Forum have been agreed (see Appendix 1) and the Chair
of the Forum will be appointed on an annual basis. We anticipate that the Chair of the
Partnership will change over time to reflect the work being undertaken by the Forum.
Details of current Partnership members can be found at Appendix 2. Membership of the
Forum is not yet complete. The following members will join the Forum shortly:
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Voluntary Organisations have decided that they want to maintain their own subgroup, which would be a basis for general communication by their representatives
on the Children’s Services Planning Forum. The second meeting of this group will
be held within the next six weeks. Organisations have been asked to put
themselves forward, in writing, if they are interested in representing the
voluntary sector on the Forum. The sub-group will decide who will represent
them on the Forum at their next meeting.
The SACRE are considering their role in the Forum and will determine their
nomination at their next meeting to be held at the end of June.
We have asked the Chairs and Deputy Chairs of our 9 Community Committees to
make two nominations to the Forum and hope to have identified them by August.
Lead on participation and dialogue with children and young people:
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Lyndon Jones, Community and Social Services Directorate, Salford City Council
Person responsible for monitoring and evaluation:
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Prevention Strategy Co-ordinator when appointed. In the interim Sue Ford will
be responsible (for contact details see below).
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Accountable Body
Salford City Council
Legal Status - Local Authority
Paul Hindle,
Assistant Group Accountant,
Chief Executive Directorate,
Salford City Council,
Civic Centre, Chorley Road,
Swinton,
Salford, M27 5FJ
Tel: 0161-793-2584
FAX: 0161-793-2931
Email: paul.hindle@salford.gov.uk
Main Contact for the Partnership - For the short term this will be:
Sue Ford
Chief Executive Directorate
Salford City Council
Civic Centre, Chorley Road,
Swinton, Salford M27 5FJ
Tel: 0161-793-3421
FAX: 0161-793-2931
Email: sue.ford@salford.gov.uk
In the longer term the Children’s Fund Co-ordinator will be the main contact. The Job
Description and Person Specification is in place and the post is currently being
advertised.
SUMMARY
TO BE ADDED
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TARGET AREA AND TARGET GROUPS
Basic Data
Total Population
Data
224,800
Total Population of children
0-19 years
Total Population of 5-13’s
(explain the method used in
the data column)
58,760
Breakdown 5-14’s by ethnic
group *See Note 1.
White
26,182
Black
199
Asian
535
Chinese or Other 292
Male
Female
Breakdown according to age
bands:
5-9 years
10-13 years
Basic Data (cont.)
Wards within which
Children’s fund investment
is to be made
Postcodes covered by the
Children’s Fund
Numbers of school
truancies/non-attendances
in schools where majority
of 5-13’s attend
Authorised Absence
25,282 children on the
school roll
7,308
5,602
Data
All Wards
6,961
5,417
Sources Used
1999 mid year population
estimates (OPCS)
1999 mid year population
estimates (OPCS)
Annual School Census
January 2001 (NB OPCS
1998 mid year estimates
only give 5-14 breakdown =
30,448)
1991 Census – no other
breakdown available. We
believe this population has
grown since the census.
Annual School Census
January 2001 (NB mid year
estimates only give 5-14
breakdown = 30,448)
Sources Used
All Salford Postcodes
Primary
Schools
Secondary
Schools
5.98%
9.33%
1999/00 School based
statistics
Unauthorised Absence
0.61%
1.24%
*Note 1. Salford has traditionally had a very low ethnic minority population. There is a
small Yemini population in the Eccles/Barton area of the City and a small Asian
community in Broughton close to a much larger Asian community in adjoining wards within
Manchester. These are the main populations identified by the 1991 Census. We do not
have any reliable data to update the 1991 count. However, anecdotal evidence suggests
that the ethnic population has grown. Schools have reported an increase in children from
ethnic minority backgrounds for example, a school in Broughton reports a recent influx
of children from Nigerian families. There is also a small Asian community in the Irlams
O’th Height area. At the moment there is no reliable data from schools to quantify the
numbers of children from ethnic backgrounds and we acknowledge that this needs to be
addressed through our Prevention Strategy work.
We have held three one-day Stakeholder Seminars for organisations from the statutory
and voluntary sectors. These seminars have played a key role in developing the Strategy
and our Children’s Fund proposals over the last three months.
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10th April seminar determined the vision for the Prevention Strategy.
23rd April seminar was key in determining the groups of vulnerable children
and young people that we should target under the Children’s Fund in Salford.
11th June seminar looked at the completed mapping exercise that has been
undertaken for the Prevention Strategy and the Children’s Fund and assisted in
determining the priorities for action under the Prevention Strategy and the
Children’s Fund.
We have undertaken a comprehensive mapping of services and have gathered the views
of organisations about the gaps in provision of services. The mapping covers the 0-18
year age range in order to assist in the development of the wider Prevention Strategy
for Children and Young People. The summary mapping is attached at Appendix 3. The
summary was prepared following the determination of target groups of vulnerable
children and young people at the second seminar. The mapping shows the spread of
restorative, heavy, early and universal intervention activity both Citywide and within
specific service delivery areas of the City. However this is supported by information on
other services that impact on wider the prevention agenda across the City. As part of
the mapping exercise information was gathered on the linkages between projects and on
the perceived gaps in prevention services and interventions.
In the determination of our priorities for intervention through the Children’s Fund we
have also mapped baseline data across the City, which is attached at Appendix 4.
The Children’s Fund Programme in Salford will target vulnerable groups of children and
Young People. We will be not focussing on one specific geographical area within the City
as the baseline data indicates that:
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DETR measures used to determine Neighbourhood Renewal Fund eligibility, shows
that there is significant deprivation across the City, with rankings within the top 30
of the most deprived local authority areas in across England and Wales, on a number
of different criteria.
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Employment rank, the measure that looks at number of people who are
employment deprived, 31st.
Income rank, the measure that looks at number of people who are income
deprived, 29th.
Average ward scores, the measure that describes the district as a whole, but
takes more account of extreme areas of deprivation. 21st.
Average ward ranks, the measure that summarises the district as a whole, 28 th.
Extent rank, that identifies the proportion of the population living in the most
deprived 10% of wards in the country, 27th.
Local concentration, which looks at the intensity of deprivation, 30th.
There are significant areas of need within vulnerable groups, which are not confined
to specific geographical areas of the City, as shown by the following information.
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During the past five years, the number of children and young people who are
looked after has increased by 100%, with over 600 children now in the care of
the local authority (see Appendix 4). This is the second highest rise in the whole
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country of children who are looked after. The highest numbers of these children
are in the target age range of the Children’s Fund.
There are an increasing number of children who are not able to access
mainstream educational provision, who are either chronic truants or who have
been excluded from provision (see Appendix 4). There are currently over 100
children in the city who do not have educational provision.
The level of youth crime and instances of disorder caused by youths within the
City are the highest within Greater Manchester, after the City of Manchester.
There are very few areas of the City that do not experience the effect of youth
crime (see Appendix 4).
For these reasons, which are supported by our mapping and baseline data, Salford’s
Children’s Fund prevention interventions will be targeted at:
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Children and
Children and
potential.
Children and
Children and
young people who are at risk of family breakdown.
young people who are at risk of not fulfilling their educational
young people who are at risk of harm.
young people who are at risk of becoming involved in offending.
The stakeholder seminars raised the issue of common trigger points for intervention
with children, young people and families to prevent social exclusion. The principal
triggers identified were:
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Highly mobile families
Parent going in to prison
Bereavement
Bullying
Transition primary to secondary school
Domestic violence
Family conflict
On-going neglect
Unemployment
Caring responsibilities
Parent using alcohol/drugs
Racist incidents
Education issues eg ADD/ADHD
Whilst our aim is to prevent children coming in to care, reduce offending behaviour,
improve educational attainment and reduce the number of children being harmed, we do
not plan to use Children’s Fund money to focus on children and young people who feature
at level 4 and receive support through Social Services and Quality Protects.
An underpinning principle of the work that will be targeted at these groups will be the
engagement of their parents and families with the interventions and supports that are
put in place to address the known risk factors.
It is intended that specific interventions will be piloted within certain geographical
areas, with a view to extending to other areas of the City.
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ACTIVITIES/SERVICES
The Children’s Services Planning Forum has approved the Prevention Strategy for
Children and Young People aged 0-19 years (see Appendix 5). This Strategy has provided
the framework for developing our proposals for the Children’s Fund.
The Children’s Fund cannot tackle this issue in isolation in Salford. The Community Plan
for the City identifies children and young people as a key theme for action. We are
linking into the activity being developed through the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund and
the Crime and Disorder Strategy, which both have children and young people as key
priorities. Similarly, children and young people are a key focus for our area based
regeneration programmes funded through SRB and New Deal for Communities. The
success of our programme in Salford will depend as much on the integration of work
across these programmes as with the integration of Children’s Fund work with
mainstream activity.
We have built our programme for activities and services around the outcomes of our
mapping and baseline information and our stakeholder consultation. It is important to
note that even on the completion of the final plan the partnership is on an outward
journey, which needs to be reflected by the continual mapping of service provision
throughout and beyond the life of the project.
Four key principles have emerged for promoting:
 Independence in young people;
 A sense of belonging and stability in, for example, a community or school;
 Participation and shared learning; and
 Mutual help enabling people and communities to help each other
These principles will be built in to the development of all our proposals under the
Prevention Strategy and the Children’s Fund.
Activities targeted at children under 10 will be more family focussed to reflect the main
influence in the child’s life. For those aged 10-13 years activities will focus on the
children themselves whose sphere of influence then moves away from their family to
their peers, as they become more independent.
The activities and services prioritised for action in the first year under the
Children’s Fund are as follows:
Parenting
One of the most pressing issues identified for Salford is poor parenting. The level of
and recent rise in numbers of Looked After Children, children “At Risk” and numbers of
young people offending/causing nuisance, all point to the lack of adequate parenting in
the City. This was also borne out at the stakeholder seminars by agencies such as the
YOT. Current provision is often ad hoc, sporadic and universal. Provision needs to be
timely, appropriate, accessible and meet the needs of the individual families including
those from ethnic minority and faith communities. A number of agencies from both the
statutory and voluntary sectors undertake various and differing models of Parenting
Courses often with little knowledge of what is being provided by others.
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The co-ordination, development and integration of parenting initiatives across the City
needs to be addressed as a priority. We will appoint an agency, preferably from the
voluntary sector, to undertake this work on behalf of the Forum over the next 2½ years
commencing in October 2001.
The work will involve the identification of the type, frequency and duration of the
various parenting support around the City. A piece of work, which will need to be
considered, was undertaken on this a couple of years ago by the Institute of Public
Health Research and Policy at Salford University which highlighted the diversity of such
support across much of Greater Manchester.
There has been little evaluation of the impact that individual parenting support has had
in the City to date. Best practice and innovation in terms of parenting around the
country also needs to be considered in the Salford context. This evaluation will need to
be undertaken in order to inform a strategy for parenting support across the City. The
development and implementation of the strategy through a multi-agency approach will be
a key element of the work and will be facilitated by the Children’s Fund. Years 2 and 3
will see new programmes of parenting support develop.
Involving vulnerable children, young people and their families in service design and
delivery
It is the aim of the Forum to ensure service users can influence service delivery over
the life of the fund and beyond. It is essential that specific work is developed around
the field of participation and capacity building not only to improve access or uptake but
also to enable the community to open channels of communication between service
providers and young service users.
This will be a key element of the Prevention teams work in the first year of the
programme.
Interagency Information System
Partners from all agencies have indicated the difficulties in the sharing of information
on individual cases. There is also difficulty in ensuring that statistical information is
suitable for use by other partners, for example some agencies collect information by
postcode and others need it providing by ward. This coupled with the disaffection
reported by children, young people and families who often have to repeat the same
information to a series of agencies make it essential for the forum to develop an
interagency minimum information standard which can be shared by all agencies. This will
lead to improved service delivery for service users. The development of a computerised
information system, which can be shared with partners, will be a priority in the first
year. We are aware that this will not be a easy piece of work to undertake and will
involve partners in developing protocols around information sharing on individual clients.
It will be the responsibility of the Prevention Team to co-ordinate this work. This
system will also need to enable the Prevention Team to track the progress of individual
children and families through the pathways of support.
The maintenance and regular updating of the service mapping will enhance the
Information system. This will be a key tool in informing our families of what and where
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services are available. This information will also be shared with Salford Children’s
Information Service.
Developing Preventative Work based around Schools
The mapping exercise identified that key access points for intervention with families
were schools. Condoned absence is also an identified issue in Salford and has obvious
implications on educational achievement. Teachers often identify the early signs of antisocial behaviour and low aspiration in children and parents see primary schools as a nonthreatening, accessible environment. There are good examples of prevention work in
Salford schools through home school links including the Eccles Project at 2 primary
schools funded through the HAZ an EAZ. The Albion High School and its feeder
primaries, which have recently received mini-EAZ status, are also starting to look at how
they work with families better. These initiatives have acknowledged that primary
schools are well placed to pick up the early signs of exclusion but are currently not
equipped intervene quickly and work with families.
In the first year of the programme we plan to work with schools in Salford to
investigate the most appropriate method of ensuring they are able to establish good
links between school and home. Many primary schools in Salford already have access to
Excellence in Cities, Standards Fund and New Opportunities Funding (NOF) for out of
school learning and for out of school childcare, and consideration needs to be given to
this in the development of proposals. The Prevention Team will research national best
practice and look at innovative ways of delivering this activity. We plan to pilot this in a
specific area of the City in years 2 and 3 although at this stage we have not identified
the exact location.
This action is further supported by statistical evidence in the city demonstrates a clear
picture that at key stage 2 (Age 11) levels of attainment and attendance are above or
close to national targets even in our most deprived communities. However, the picture
for key stage 3 (age 13/14) indicates that the position for the city has worsened to
large areas now under the national average performance levels.
It is apparent that many of the cities young people have difficulty in retaining the
academic standards and the transition from primary to high school is a key target area.
Baseline Satisfaction Survey
The Prevention Team will conduct a sample survey of children, young people and families
who use prevention services to ascertain their views on quality, access and uptake of
available services. This information will be used to baseline levels of satisfaction and
enable the Forum to measure improvements in satisfaction over the next two years. The
survey will be undertaken during the winter period.
For the second and third years we will be developing proposals around:
Prevention of Offending Behaviour
The mapping demonstrates that there is little activity directed principally at the
prevention of offending behaviour in children and younger people. However, the
statistical evidence demonstrates that juvenile nuisance and offending is a problem
across Salford for the 10+ age group. It is widely understood that this offending
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behaviour begins at an earlier age. We plan to develop proposals to tackle this issue in
years 2 and 3 of the programme and the Prevention Team will be working closely with,
the voluntary sector, Social Services, Education, the Police and the YOT in determining
appropriate interventions to tackle this issue in both the 5-9 and 10-13 year age groups.
Ensuring Children are Free from the Risk of Harm
The increase in Looked After Children and high numbers of children on the At Risk
register is a cause for concern for all organisations consulted in the City. Our
stakeholder conference identified this as an area for early preventative action.
Our mapping exercise indicates that much of the prevention work currently underway is
carried out by the voluntary sector in Salford. However, voluntary organisations have
indicated that their services do not currently have the capacity to deal with the scale of
Salford’s problems, nor do they always have the long term stability to make a great
enough impact.
There will be close working with the voluntary sector over years 2 and 3 to build their
capacity in this area of work, looking at what works and improving service delivery to
ensure children are free from the risk of harm.
IDENTIFICATION AND REFERRAL MECHANISMS
The process of identification begins with our analysis of needs across the City for,
although we do not intend to focus delivery of the Plan on specific areas, decisions about
what is provided in different parts of the City will reflect the issues in the area. Our
principal sources of information for this will be the mapping exercise, the demographic
information we have collected, our work on risk factors and information included in local
Community Action Plans. We aim to encourage open access to and self-referral by
appropriate children and families and think that location is an important step in achieving
this. For example, we might locate a project addressing school attendance and
educational attainment with a school serving an area where these issues particularly
feature.
Secondly, we do take the view that targeting is necessary, particularly to ensure that
children who are very vulnerable benefit from Heavy-End Prevention services. For this
reason we are developing our "Vulnerable Families" model which will allow those who are
concerned about particular children - health visitors, teachers or police officers for
example, to refer children to appropriate preventative services. This provision will also
be directly available to children and families. We see this model as important for the
delivery of our whole preventative strategy including the Children's Fund initiative.
The Model will be supported by the Prevention Strategy Coordinator and Team who will
act as a referral point for those with concerns and will be in a position to provide
information about appropriate services, drawing on the information system described
elsewhere in the Plan.
We aim to fund an area coordinator from the Children's Fund grant, under management
costs, and to link to other funding sources to provide a second post. By working in areas
it would be possible for these two workers to build up good local knowledge and also link
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into the local Community Committee structures to ensure a good information flow
contributing to future Community Action Plans as well as the work of the Children's
Services Planning Forum.
We do not intend that services provided, as part of the Preventative Strategy would be
subject to eligibility criteria. However, we will work with those providing services to
ensure how we address the three sides of the triangle of the National Assessment
Framework.
DIALOGUE WITH AND INVOLVEMENT OF CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND
THEIR FAMILIES
Salford’s Children’s Services Planning Forum has given priority to ensuring that all those
who work with and support vulnerable children and their families develop a way of
working that routinely elicits their views about the services they have received and
whether they have addressed their needs. This approach will enable service evaluation
and development that builds on the actual experience of children and their families.
There are already good examples of how their views are sought:
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All young offenders are interviewed after the end of their involvement with the
Youth Offending Team on the effectiveness of the interventions that have
taken place.
Parents involved in parent support programmes with the Social Services
Department, Family Support Services, and with the Youth Offending Team, are
asked about the effectiveness of the programme.
Parents who receive support through a programme run in partnership between
the Social Services Department and local primary schools are asked for
feedback on the help that they have received.
There are specific initiatives in the City with the primary purpose of involving
children and local residents in service development.
The existing communication involving young persons in the city is based around the
community committee structure and the locally based Community Action Plans. This will
provide the Forum with a baseline to build on as it develops its own consultation
processes as key area of work in the first year of the programme. Positive examples
that have been developed in both NDC and SRB areas, through participatory appraisal,
will also provide useful information for the Forum to create better levels of engagement
and influence.
Vulnerable children and their families occupy major parts of our deprived communities
where much of the on going good practice is taking place. The Forum does not see the
need to reinvent the wheel in those areas but rather it will create further opportunities
to widen the consultation base using diverse methods of sport and arts and ICT as well
as traditional methods of consultation and participation.
There are other existing consultation processes available to the target groups such as:
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The involvement of young people in contact with the after-care service on the
appointments panels for staff.
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The consultation with parents about the arrangements for and the content of
parent support programmes offered by the Community & Social Services
Directorate. This led directly to the appointment of an out-of hours support
worker for families.
Feedback from parents on the support service received from a primary schoolbased programme, a partnership between the Community & Social Services
Directorate and two primary schools. This measures the success of the
programme in addressing the needs of parents.
The routine involvement of young people in induction programmes for newly
appointed staff to work in children’s residential units.
The involvement of young people in ongoing multi-agency training on the
education of young people looked after.
In order that the views of children and young people influence the development of the
preventative strategy and decisions in relation to the Children’s Fund, the following
further consultations are planned:
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With young people who are looked after.
With young people involved in personal development programmes, provided by
Fairbridge and commissioned by the Youth Offending Team.
With young people who have been disengaged from mainstream school and attend
the Pupil Referral Units.
With young people in contact with the Youth Offending Team.
With young people who contribute to the work of local community committees.
Salford Children’s Services Planning Forum’s longer term strategy for involving young
people and their families will be based on ensuring that all those who work with and
support vulnerable children and their families develop a way of working that routinely
incorporates their views into service development.
In order to take forward this work, the Partnership will commission work with a major
voluntary organisation to develop practice within the City, including a training programme
with front-line staff. We will build on the examples of good practice already established
in the city, ensure that good practice is shared and establish systems for monitoring
feedback and consultation with service users.
Local Community Committees will be at the heart of the participation work undertaken
by the Partnership. A programme of regular consultation will then be built in on the
development of prevention services in localities.
The Partnership sees all these activities as an opportunity to build on and develop
further the way that we consult with children and their families, learning from best
practice. They will form part of the communication strategy that we will develop as part
of our overall preventative strategy on which our budget decisions in respect of the
Children’s Fund will be based.
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OBJECTIVES, TARGETS, MILESTONES AND OUTCOMES
Key Objectives
Objective
One: To achieve an
effective working
partnership with
active membership
Two: To achieve
effective multidisciplinary working in
the delivery of
services
Milestone June- Sept
Forum established and
membership reviewed.
Terms of Reference agreed
Milestone Oct – Dec
Forum Quarterly meeting.
Identify training needs of
Forum members
Milestone Jan-Mar
Forum Quarterly meeting.
Training programme
established.
Annual Progress
Annual monitoring progress
noted and Year 2 delivery
plan agreed.
Recruitment and
appointment of the Coordinator
Co-ordination Team recruited
Measurement of outcomes
of Y1 activity and influence
on Y2 Delivery Plan
preparation.
Three: To ensure
that children and
young people at risk
of social exclusion
receive services they
need and accept
Mapping exercise completed
Training programme for front
line staff on participation
developed.
Development of Interagency
Information System
Delivery of year 1 programme
commences.
Commencement of Y1 activity
with voluntary sector leading
on key areas of capacity
building and participation.
Baseline satisfaction survey
undertaken.
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Barriers to access
identified
Progress Against Sub-Objectives 1-7
Sub-objective 1: To promote attendance at schools attended by the majority of the 5-13 year olds living in the area.
Target
Baseline Data
Milestone Summer
Milestone Autumn
Milestone Spring
Term
Term
Term
To Reduce Levels of unauthorised
Unauthorised
Dialogue with
Programme of
absence within the City to below
Absence - Primary
schools commences
interventions
the national average
Schools –0.61%
on home- school
commences.
links.
Secondary Schools
– 1.24%
Programme of
interventions on
home –school links
developed.
Annual Progress
To review progress
and developed for
Y2 Delivery Plan.
Sub-objective 2: To achieve overall improved educational performance among children and young people aged 5-13
Target
Baseline Data
To improve SAT’s performance at
Key Stage 3 in schools where
performance is in the lowest 2025% of results.
Key Stage 2 –
English 75%
Maths 72%
Science 84%
Key Stage 3English 52%
Maths 57%
Science 50%
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Milestone Summer
Term
Milestone Autumn
Term
Establish Links with
City-wide NOF out
of School Learning
Programme to
identify common
areas of activity for
improving academic
performance
Milestone Spring
Term
Compare SAT’s
results for 2001
against 2000
baseline.
Identify areas of
success to continue
process and areas of
need for further
intervention
Annual Progress
To monitor against
initial baseline
information (Ward
by Ward).
Identify Schools
needing most
support.
Y2 Programme
developed.
Sub-objective 3: To ensure that fewer young people aged between 10 and 13 commit crime and fewer children between 5 and 13 are victims
of crime
Target
Baseline Data
Target needed
No. of convictions,
reprimands and
final warnings
given to 10-14
year olds per 1000
Milestone June Sept
Milestone Oct- Dec
Milestone Jan –
Mar
Discussions around
Y2 detailed
interventions
commences.
Annual Progress
Y2 programme
developed
Sub-objective 4: To reduce child health inequalities among those children and young people aged 5 –13 who live within the area
Target
Baseline Data
Awaiting advice from the Children
and Young Peoples Unit
Awaiting advice
from the CYPUnit
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Milestone June Sept
Milestone Oct- Dec
Milestone Jan –
Mar
Annual Progress
Consider health
implications for Y2
Delivery Plan.
Sub-objective 5: To ensure that children, young people, their families and local people feel that preventative services being developed
through partnerships are accessible
Target
Baseline Data
To improve level of referrals to
prevention services in deprived
communities.
No. self referrals
No. Professional
Referrals – to be
assessed
Milestone June Sept
Milestone Oct- Dec
Assess level of self
and professional
referrals to existing
services
Referral process
developed and in
place following the
Family Need Model
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Milestone Jan –
Mar
Referrals process in
place
Annual Progress
Review levels of
referrals to
services.
Participation
Programme
developed for
implementation in
year 2
Sub-objective 6: To develop services which are experienced as effective by individual and clusters of children, young people and families
commonly excluded from gaining the benefits of public services that are intended to support children and young people at risk of social
exclusion from achieving their potential
Target
Baseline Data
Milestone June Milestone Oct- Dec Milestone Jan –
Annual Progress
Sept
Mar
To raise satisfaction levels and
Ratio of the
Assess numbers of
Training programme
Monitoring of
awareness of services available to
proportion who
children from ethnic on raising awareness database
vulnerable communities.
use preventative
minorities who are
and participation
information to
services that were
accessing current
developed for
inform Y2 and Y3
from ethnic
prevention services.
target areas.
Delivery Plans and
minorities to the
mainstream service
proportion of
Database of
Baseline
emphasis.
children in the
referrals to
Satisfaction Survey
local population
children’s services
undertaken.
that were from
and tracking of
ethnic minorities
children developed.
- to be assessed
Specific analysis of
Survey on
ethnic and non
satisfaction of
Christian faith
those using
groups accessing
services – to be
services.
undertaken
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Sub-objective 7: To involve families in building the community’s capacity to sustain the programme and thereby create pathways out of
poverty
Target
Baseline Data
Milestone June Milestone Oct- Dec Milestone Jan Annual Progress
Sept
Mar
To raise levels of participation in
No. local
Assessment of the
Develop ment of
the delivery of prevention services. people/service
level of users who
proposals to increase
users who
participate in the
levels of user
contribute
delivery of current
involvement in
directly to the
prevention services.
mainstream services
delivery of
delivery ( March
prevention
2002)
services - to be
assessed
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STRUCTURE AND MANAGEMENT OF THE PROGRAMME
The Children’s Services Planning Forum
SALFORD PARTNERSHIP
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PREVENTION
SERVICES
DIALOGUE WITH CHILDREN,
YOUNG PEOPLE AND FAMILIES
THROUGH PREVENTION SERVICES
The Forum was established to develop and co-ordinate the Children’s Services Plan in
Salford and will be the Partnership body for the Children’s Fund. It is also the body that
is developing the Children and Young People’s Prevention Strategy, which will set our
priorities in ensuring our children and young people do not become socially excluded. The
Forum is responsible for overseeing the development, implementation and management of
the Children’s Fund. Once the Prevention Strategy and Children’s Fund programme are
established we envisage that the Forum will meet on a quarterly basis, it is currently
meeting on a monthly basis.
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The original Forum membership was quickly reviewed in order to include other
organisations that had a role to play in developing the Prevention Strategy and the
Children’s Fund programme (see Appendix 2).

Salford already has a well-established community committee structure to enable
consultation with local communities on the delivery of services and regeneration
of their areas. This is being further developed and committees now have their
own small budgets with which to purchase additional services for the area. We
have asked the network of committees to nominate two representatives to the
Forum and hope to have identified them by August.

We have identified the main voluntary sector organisations that operate in
Salford and have asked them to select two representatives. These organisations
have attended our stakeholder seminars and have contributed to the work on our
Prevention Strategy. They have indicated that they wish to maintain a working
relationship with the Prevention Team and a sub-group for the voluntary sector
will continue to meet and inform the work of the Forum, initially on the
Prevention Strategy and Children’s Fund, but on the wider remit of the Forum in
the longer term.

The Jewish community in Salford is the largest non-Christian faith group in the
City and is represented on the Forum by the Manchester Jewish Federation. The
Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education (SACRE) has been asked to
nominate a member to represent the other faith groups in the City. We hope
they will have made a nomination by the end of June.

In terms of ethnic minority representation the Forum have asked the Salford
Link project to become a member and are awaiting a response. Salford Link is
the recognised voluntary organisation in the City for consulting with ethnic
communities.
The Forum has held three stakeholder seminars to discuss the Prevention Strategy,
which provides the framework for the development of Children’s Fund Services. The
first was for Forum members to establish the basic structure of the Prevention
Strategy. The second and third were attended by over 40 organisations from the public
and voluntary sectors and discussed the key elements to include in the Prevention
Strategy and Children’s Fund Plan. The output from these seminars has been used in
developing this Plan.
We anticipate that further stakeholder consultation will be undertaken as appropriate
to develop areas of work under the Prevention Strategy and the Children’s Fund Plan.
Sub-Groups
We have already given a commitment to set up sub-groups for the voluntary sector and
for identification and referral of children and young people. Sub-groups will also be
established to further develop proposals for:
 Parenting support
 Inter-agency information system
 Developing work around schools
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Prevention of offending behaviour and
Ensuring children are free from the risk of harm
There is also a small core group of officers established to carry out the work on the
Prevention Strategy and the Children’s Fund programme. Whilst the membership of this
group may change there will be a need for a small multi-agency group to support the
Children’s Fund Co-ordinator in managing and implementing the Strategy and Children’s
Fund programme.
Community Committees
Salford has an established Community Committee structure with 9 community
committees covering our 9 service delivery areas. These committees are made up of
members of the community, councillors and other appropriate agencies, Each committee
has a series of task groups attached and all committees have youth task groups. Each
area develops an annual Community Action Plan which outlines the priorities for action
for each task group for the year ahead. The priorities of the youth task groups have
been considered in developing this plan. The involvement of youth task groups in the
developing our proposals will remain a key element of our strategy. Where proposals
impact on the work of individual community committees the Prevention Team will have a
key role in working with that committee.
Children’s Fund Co-ordinator
Recruitment of the Co-ordinator is now underway and we anticipate the postholder will
be in place by the end of September 2001.
The Co-ordinator will be employed by the City Council but be responsible to the
Children’s Services Planning Forum. It will be the responsibility of the Co-ordinator to
undertake regular monitoring of the programme and report on progress of the Children’s
Fund and the Prevention Strategy to the Forum.
MONITORING
The Co-ordinator will be responsible for establishing appropriate monitoring systems to
manage the Children’s Fund Programme. Each area of work funded by the Children’s Fund
will have an identified project manager. Monitoring returns will be issued by the Coordinator and completed by project managers on a quarterly basis to identify progress
against financial targets, milestones and outcomes. The Co-ordinator will then be
responsible for drawing together quarterly reports on the progress of the whole
programme. This will allow the Forum to identify where progress is slow or projects are
not being effective and allow them to recommend remedial action.
A database of children being referred to prevention services will also be developed in
order to track them through the system and ensure that appropriate services are
provided when needed. The database will also highlight areas where prevention services
are absent or inadequate.
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EVALUATION
We plan to commission an independent agency to undertake ongoing evaluation of the
Children’s fund Programme. As a first step we are talking to the Institute of Public
Health Research and Policy at Salford University who are undertaking the local
evaluation on Salford’s two Sure Start programmes. The Forum will be considering
detailed proposals for evaluation in the autumn.
COMMUNICATION
The Forum will look to develop a communications strategy around the following issues;  Public information

Consultation
 Media relations
 Internal communication
Prior to the development of the strategy stakeholders/users will be consulted to ensure
that enough information is available to allow them to access services, which are available.
It is recognised that a lack of information reduces service uptake. The Forum will
endeavour to ensure that children young people and their families are made fully aware
of service provision in all sectors
Existing Regeneration initiatives in the City have developed specific communications
strategies that could be extended to include this project.
We will specifically target children, young people and their families through existing
information channels, including
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Salford Children’s Information Service
Existing newsletters in Regeneration areas.
Monthly e-mail bulletin on city-wide regeneration issues
Regular updates on partners websites
Salford People articles - city wide distribution
Contributions to health authority newsletters
Press releases where appropriate
Provision of in-depth features
Advice / assistance with events, campaigns etc.
Fielding of Press queries
Specific targeting of children, young people and their families may be carried out using:
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Schools
Youth groups
Sporting and leisure facilities
Other youth organisations
Links with HAZ and EAZ
This may be through leaflets, a newsletter or other means, now under discussion
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MONEY
The level of expenditure on current prevention activity in the City is estimated to be as
follows:
TO BE DETERMINED
Our Funding profile for Children’s Fund money is estimated to be:
2001/02
2002/03
£’000
£’000
300
1,490
Total Years 1-3
2003/04
£’000
1,510
3,300
2004/05
£’000
1,300
2005/06
£’000
1,100
2006/07
£’000
650,000
Total
£’000
6,350
Inflation has been built into the programme at 2.5%pa. The level of funding allocated to
evaluation over the first three years of the programme is 3% and management costs
total 12.5% of the programme costs. Capital costs will not exceed 2%. We believe this
level of funding will allow us to have the impact on influencing the service changes
necessary to prevent the levels of social exclusion, which currently exist within our
population of children and young people.
Our first year spending profile is attached at Appendix 6.
The City Council will ensure that the appropriate financial controls are in place. Funding
will only be released to projects that have been approved by the Partnership. Claims for
funding will be dealt with quarterly and will be submitted to the City Council via the
Prevention Strategy Co-ordinator. Agencies will need to substantiate their claims for
funding and provide appropriate documentation. The City Council will provide regular
financial reports to the Co-ordinator and to the Children’s services Planning Forum.
Letters of approval of projects will be issued by the Co-ordinator on behalf of the
Forum. These will outline the conditions under which grant is made. The projectmanaging agency must agree to the conditions of grant in writing.
The City Council’s Finance division will provide internal audit.
We, the Forum and the City Council, confirm that we will comply with all the financial
regulations as set out in the Children’s Fund Financial Guidance.
Letters of commitment from relevant agencies to the core concept of financial
mainstreaming are attached at Appendix 7. We will build the review of financial
mainstreaming in to the core business of the Co-ordination Team and the Forum in Year
2.
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EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
The Children’s Services Planning Forum is committed to ensuring that Prevention
Services are accessible to all children, young people and their families and is provided in
a fair and equitable manner. It is the responsibility of all Forum members, Children’s
Fund project staff and volunteers to adopt and observe the following principles, to
ensure equality of opportunity for all children, young people and families.

The development and design of services should be sensitive to the requirements
of the children, young people and families that they serve.

All children, young people and families referred to Children’s Fund Prevention
Services should have access to the full range of services available regardless of
disability, religion, ethnic origin, gender or sexuality.

All children and young people are of equal value and the delivery of Children’s
Fund services should not be constrained by stereotypes of class, culture, race,
gender, disability, history of offending or special educational needs.
This framework gives a clear identification of the overall aims and objectives of equal
opportunity as reflected at a strategic level of the partnership. It is more important to
the Forum that this policy is reflected daily in the service delivery and is seen as a
proactive tool of service delivery to address issues around the removal of barriers to
access, capacity building and participation.
Activities and Services will need to clearly demonstrate how they will positively promote
equal opportunities and the outcomes that will be achieved to address this cross cutting
policy.
The Forum will not accept “head counting” alone as a sufficient measure of equal
participation. Service deliverers will be required to demonstrate how the individual
projects actively promote the use of diverse and where possible innovative methods that
will have an impact on the culture of their organisations, taking in to account the express
wishes and desires of the service user.
It is essential that local issues of culture, ethnic and religious diversity are promoted in
a positive manner and that diversity is celebrated. In discreet pockets of the City where
these issues are most prevalent this may lead to the adoption of new organisational
processes to meet specialist needs of equal opportunity.
The Forum will, by using its appraisal, monitoring and evaluation processes, look to
achieve key outcomes in this field, some will relate to numbers or different population
groups using and accessing services. The emphasis may also focus on softer more
community based targets around the perceptions of the users (potential to use things
like customer satisfaction cards etc) to draw out the new targets in equal opportunity
that will be developed using the Children’s Fund as catalyst.
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PROTECTING CHILDREN FROM HARM
All of the constituent agencies within the Forum recognise that they have a duty to
ensure the safety of children as well as promoting their welfare. This duty demands
that all relevant staff have both a knowledge and understanding of the law and
associated government guidance and are familiar with locally agreed inter-agency
procedures.
All service providers will therefore be required to follow safe recruitment practices and
to ensure that staff and volunteers receive appropriate training in how to recognise and
respond to concerns about a child’s welfare.
Service providers will each be required to have in place a written policy statement which
affirms the agency’s commitment to the principles upon which the initiative is founded
and agrees to be bound by the policies and procedures set out in Salford Area Child
Protection Committees Child Protection Handbook.
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CHILDREN’S SERVICES PLANNING FORUM MEMBERSHIP
Appendix 2
Name
Title
Organisation/Interest
John Willis
Chief Executive
Salford City Council
Councillor John
Lead Member Children and
Salford City Council
Warmisham
Young People
Alan Higgins
Public Health Specialist
Salford & Trafford Health
Authority
Chrissie Verduyn
Child and Adolescent Mental
Health Trust
Sue Carr
Director of Business
Salford Primary Care Trust
Development
Karen Phillips
Manager
Manchester Jewish Federation
Chris Wells
Chief Superintendent
Salford Division, Greater
Manchester Police
To be identified (see
Two members of Community
page 3)
Committees
To be identified (see
Salford SACRE (Standing
page 3)
Advisory Council for Religious
Education)
To be identified (see
Two Voluntary Organisations
page 3)
To be identified (see
Primary School Headteacher
page 3)
Mark Carriline
Director of Education and
Salford City Council
Leisure
Paul Woltman
Asst. Director Community
Salford City Council
and Social Services
(Children’s Services)
Tom McDonald
Manager
Salford Youth Offending Team
Susan Slater
Co-ordinator
Sure Start Salford
Les Ware
Salford Area Manager
Careers Partnership
Helen Hayes
Manager
Salford Early Years
Development and Childcare
Partnership
Beth Jones
Chief Executive
Manchester, Salford and
Trafford Health Action Zone
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Children’s Fund – Salford Partnership Spending Profile 2001-02
Expenditure Categories
PERSONNEL
Salaries, pensions, travel and subsistence, Children’s Fund Grant
volunteer travel & subsistence (inc young Partnership Contribut’n
Other sources
people and community involvement)
Sub-Total
PREMISES
Rent, overhead costs capital costs
relating to premises
Children’s Fund Grant
Partnership Contribut’n
Other sources
Sub-Total
RUNNING COSTS
Phone, postage, stationery and
maintenance
Sub-Total
CAPITAL EXPENDITURE
Computer hardware, office equipment,
other programme/project activity-based
capital
Children’s Fund Grant
Partnership Contribut’n
Other sources
Children’s Fund Grant
Partnership Contribut’n
Other sources
Sub-Total
OTHER COSTS
Publicity, audit, accountancy, evaluation
and training
Children’s Fund Grant
Partnership Contribut’n
Other sources
Sub-Total
GRAND TOTAL
Central Costs
Incurred by
the
Partnership**
Appendix 6
Personal
Welfare
Services
Education and
Leisure
Crime and
Community
Safety
Health
Environmental
and Cultural
Services
£K
55,000
Interventions:
£K
20,000
Interventions:
£K
40,000
Interventions:
£K
Interventions:
£K
Interventions:
£K
10,000
£K
125,000
12,500
67,500
20,000
40,000
10,000
12,500
137,500
4,000
4,000
4,000
0
4,000
15,000
80,000
99,000
4,000
15,000
378,000*
458,000
378,000
477,000
22,000
4,000
26,000
22,000
4,000
26,000
18,000
2,000
28,000
46,000
2,000
20,000
28,000
117,500
67,000
*NRF – no breakdown between budget headings at present
**includes Management and Administration Costs, Integrated Information System and evaluation costs
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Total
4,000
48,000
498,000
0
0
10,000
692,500
Children’s Fund – Salford Partnership: Summary of
Children’s Fund Grant Only
Central Costs
Incurred by
the
Partnership**
Expenditure Categories
£K
55,000
PERSONNEL
4,000
PREMISES
4,000
RUNNING COSTS
22,000
CAPITAL EXPENDITURE
18,000
OTHER COSTS
GRAND TOTAL
103,000
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Spending Profile 2001/02
Appendix 6 (cont.)
Personal
Welfare
Services
Education and
Leisure
Crime and
Community
Safety
Health
Environmental
and Cultural
Services
Interventions:
£K
Interventions:
£K
Interventions:
£K
Interventions:
£K
Interventions:
£K
20,000
40,000
10,000
Total
£K
125,000
4,000
15,000
80,000
99,000
4,000
26,000
28,000
46,000
67,000
120,000
0
0
10,000
300,000