Children Education & Families
Redesign proposals
Early Intervention
Education
Children’s Social Care
March 2011
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National Agendas
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Changing Role of the Local Authority
Reduced funding – finding new ways of working
Schools and GPs as commissioners
The importance of evidence
Prevention and Early Intervention
Early Years
Family Focus – Families with multiple problems
Localism –and Big Society
The Importance of Teaching. Education Bill 2011
Child Poverty
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Budget Decisions 2011 - 2015
• Full Council 15th February
• £119m reductions in OCC budget with £54m in
year one – 2011/2012
• Directorate must make over £18m savings with
£10.3m savings in 2011/2012
• Any missed savings from 2010 must be added
• Significantly changed financial position –
ABG/Specific Grants – GONE
• Focus on delivering our Statutory
Responsibilities
• Continued focus on Prevention & Early
Intervention
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Grants: ABG & Specific
EIG
£26.069m
Connexions
Think
Family
AHDC
Sure
Start
Contact
Point
Social
Care
Workforce
2 Year
old EY
YOF
TAMHS
Play
Pathfinder
Cut in June
Early Intervention Grant
£21.329m
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Other Grants
£9.418m – (£4.585m)
Playing
for
Succes
Disabled
s
Access
Childcare
School
Travel
Advisers
School
Support
Staff
Training
Diploma
Development
Fund
Leaving
Asylum
Seekers
Probation/
YOI
Care
UAS
Designated
Teacher
Fund
Partnership
Funding
LA Standards Fund
Grants Due to End
2011 (Pre-May
2010)
School
Development
Grant
Extended
Schools Start-up
School
Improvement
Partners
Education Health
Partnerships
Choice Advisers
School
Intervention
Flexible 14-19
Partnership
Funding
ER to Free
Travel &
Sustainable
Travel
National
Strategies Grants
Primary &
Secondary
£160,000
(£4.585m)
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CYP&F Underpinning Principles
• Reviewing statutory responsibilities; and how we could
meet them differently.
• Removal of ring fences and grant reduction means not a
salami slice approach, but total service redesign with
built in flexibility to adapt to the shifting landscape.
• Prioritising support to our most vulnerable children.
• Multi-disciplinary: multi-agency, partners and community
working together, sharing assets and forming more
integrated teams.
• Investing in early intervention and prevention.
• Assessing impact on equalities.
• Avoiding unintended consequences.
• Using evidence to invest wisely.
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CAF & TAC/TAF
Childcare,
Nurseries, Schools,
Colleges, GPs,
Youth work,
Connexions
universal, Health
Visitors, Midwives,
School Nurses
Inclusion Services; behaviour,
attendance, EPs, Locality Coordinators & FACEIT, Targeted
Youth Support, Connexions
targeted, Children’s Centre
Outreach, Pre-court prevention
and diversion, PCAMHS.
Children’s Social Care,
Looked After Children,
Statutory SEN and EP
Work, CAMHS, YOS –
Court work, Special
Schools, Alternative
Provision
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Early Intervention Grant
• Not ring-fenced 3 items
highlighted that EIG
provides support for:
– Free early education
disadvantaged 2 yr olds
– Short breaks for disabled
children
– Sure start children’s
centres
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– Raising participation age to
18 by 2015
– Transitional arrangements
from IAG to all age careers
service
– Prevent yp taking part in
risky behaviours
– Support yp with LDD & MH
problems
– Improve outcomes for
families with multiple &
complex problems
– Link to community budgets
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Our Early Intervention Proposal
• Join separate services currently working and
contributing to intervene where children and
their families need additional support,
eliminating duplication
• Create one new simpler, streamlined cost
effective multi-disciplinary and multi-agency
Early Intervention Service.
• Deliver the new service locally using 7 existing
young people’s centre premises as hubs –
(capable of still delivering youth work in
evenings, weekends and school holidays)
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FACEIT
NEET = Not in Education,
Employment or Training
Youth
YOS
& FIP
FACEIT = Family & Child Early
Intervention Team
Inclusion =
Attendance
Behaviour
Inclusion
Educational
Psychologists
YOS = Youth Offending Service
Early Intervention Service
FIP = Family Intervention Project
Plus
smaller central countywide services
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Hub Locations
• Audit of family need
• Size and condition of accommodation and
parking arrangements, including recent
capital investment; maximising use of
buildings and minimising transport
• capable of operating as a centre for front
line workers and with family facing
facilities - Back on Track pay back
• Geographical spread
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Early
Intervention
Hubs based
in Young
Peoples
Centres
Banbury
Wood Green
Bicester
Courtyard
Witney
ANO
Central
Location
TBC
Abingdon Net
East Oxford Union St
Didcot
Vibe
Geography
• 3 Areas – as now co-terminus with
children’s social care
• 14 localities - corporate
• 7 hubs
• 26 school partnerships
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Raising Achievement and Attainment
- emphasis on readiness to learn
• Persistent absence
• Exclusions from school (fixed term and permanent)
• Number of young people Not in Employment, Education or Training
(NEET)
• Young people offending, including first time entrants to the criminal
justice system and re-offending
• Anti-social behaviour
• Child poverty
• Teenage pregnancy rates
• Substance misuse
• Young people admitted to hospital for non accidental injuries
indicating self harm
• Disadvantage as measured at Foundation Stage Profile
• Young Carers
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Hub Structure
Early Intervention
Manager
Hub Manager
Community Hub Team Leader (2)
Community Hub Worker (10)
Community Hub
Support Worker (7)
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Staffing of hubs
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How will other services
change?
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CAF TAC/TAF FACEIT
• Work further developed through EI service
delivered through hubs
• No reduction in resource – an actual
enhancement
• Lead professional availability
• 7 hubs rather than 3 bases – more local
and responsive
*CAF = Common Assessment Framework
TAC/TAF Team Around Child/Family
FACEIT – Family and Children Early Intervention Team
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Young People’s Centres Audit of Need
Banbury – all centres
Bicester, Kidlington
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Blackbird Leys, Rose Hill
East Oxford, Riverside
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Berinsfield
Witney, Eynsham, Abingdon
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Wolvercote, Saxon Centre, Cutteslowe, Barton
Carterton, Bampton, Standlake, Wheatley
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Didcot
Burford, Wood Farm
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Faringdon, Wantage
Chipping Norton, Wallingford, Henley, Woodcote
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Chiltern Edge, Thame, Cholsey, Chalgrove, Chinnor, Watlington
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Early
Intervention
Hubs
Satellites
School sites
Proposed for
community
led model
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New Look Countywide
Information Advice & Guidance
(currently provided by Connexions pending all age careers service)
• Schools and College resource allocation to continue for Information,
Advice and Guidance and statutory LDD assessments as before but
more focus on vulnerable groups, IAG workers to be based on
school/college sites - using current provider for 1 further year.
• Very small central integrated management team overseeing;
commissioning, and contract monitoring, single interactive web site,
performance, management information, youth QA and development,
co-ordination SEN/NEET.
• One city centre client facing centre – Gloucester Green
• Workers in the hubs focussing on NEET case work, vulnerable
groups and Post-16 NEET
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Youth Offending Service
• A centrally managed resource will remain to deliver
statutory court work, ISS (Intensive supervision and
surveillance), MAPPA (Multi-Agency Public Protection
Arrangements), resettlement etc.
• All YOS prevention resources will be allocated to
become part of the new early intervention teams in the
hubs. Children and young people at risk of offending will
be supported through the hubs. The FIP (Family
Intervention Project) will be delivered and managed
through the hubs. Current resource will move to hubs
from YOS budgets
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Inclusion Access & Engagement
(IAE)
• Much reduced central team carrying out only statutory
functions, commissioning and data analysis re EPS,
PRU (short stay school), Alternative Provision,
Attendance, EHE, Social Inclusion Officers
• EP team will be attached to SEN team to carry out
statutory assessments (as well as advice and guidance
in relation to SEN) as required; any discretionary
advisory work will need to be charged for
• All teams will contribute resource to teams running early
intervention from hubs – one EP attached to each hub
• Buy Back services developed for schools that wish to
have more resource offering specialist services to
support behaviour
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Children’s Centres, Parenting and Childcare
• Significant reductions in central management and
development stage functions; removing duplication
• Reduction in passported grants. The effect will be felt by
early years providers rather than children's centres as they
receive their funding through the funding formula. Early
years providers include pre-schools, day nurseries, out of
school childcare providers and childminders
• Children’s centres will provide a network of outreach bases
as spokes from the 7 early intervention hubs
• Children’s centres will continue to provide a range of
universal and targeted services in 2011-12
• During 2011 there will be a review of the impact of our
children’s centres alongside and related to the development
of the early intervention hubs This will include consultation
with service users and key stakeholders.
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Extended Services, locality work
and play
• Home School Link workers and ESCOs
will need to continue to play important role.
Extended services funding is all
passported to schools rather than being
held and distributed by LA
• Other work will be delivered in conjunction
with individual schools, school
partnerships and children’s centres
working closely with the hubs.
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Education
• Reduced funding
• Diversity of provision and freedoms
– Free schools
– Academies
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Pupil premium
Champion of vulnerable children
Behaviour and discipline
Raising age of participation
Accountability?
Market failure
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Deputy
Director
Education
& Early
Intervention
Early
Intervention
Manager
(North)
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Specialism
Early
Intervention
Manager
(Central)
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Specialism
Early
Intervention
Manager
South)
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Specialism
Children
With SEN
Manager
Educational
Transformation
Manager
Educational
Effectiveness
Manager
School
Organisation
&
Planning
Manager
Business
Skills
Manager
(with
E&E)
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SEN & Alternative Education
• No reduction in central SEN support to
schools in 2011-12; Awaiting SEN green
paper
• No reduction to PRU budget in 2011-12
pending review of provision and support
for behaviour and discipline – to Forum.
• Charging being recommended for some
additional behaviour support services
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The Challenge
To build a self improving and self sustaining
education system for Oxfordshire
Only good or outstanding schools
Available locally in every partnership
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Children’s Social Care
National patterns increasing referrals and CLA
• No reduction in staffing
• Protection of the front line
• Slight change in emphasis on management
responsibilities
• Clear lines of sight
• YOS court work
• Disabilities teams
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Children’s Social Care
Deputy
Director
Children’s
Social
Care
Policy,
Strategy &
Development
Manager
Safeguarding
Manager
Corporate
Parenting
Manager
YOS
Manager
Disabled
Children
Manager
Social
Care
Manager
(North)
Social
Care
Manager
(Central
Social
Care
Manager
(South)
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CYP&F- Implications for the Voluntary Sector
Autumn 2010
• Significant Challenges:
– There will be increased demands on the VCS and less funding at the
disposal of the public sector.
– Many activities provided by VCS are funded by grants from CYP&F –
future uncertain and when un-ring fenced competing priorities.
– Moving towards a greater commissioning approach, but will need to
build in more flexibility to re-negotiate contracts.
– Need for greater identification of risk and management of risk.
• Opportunities:
– The Government wants to build ‘Big Society’ and locally we have been
working on ideas for community self help.
– There will be greater opportunities for the Voluntary Sector to take
centre stage in shaping the future.
– There will be a need for all partners to work more closely to make the
most of combined resources.
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Implications March 2011
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Case work and working in partnership on direct provision
– Families and individuals
– Mentoring, counselling, diversionary activity
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Future of services delivering youth work
Reviews over 11-12 with proposals to reshape for 12-13
– Children’s centres under review in preparation for re-shaping and recommissioning
– Services supporting behaviour under review – potential commissioning approach.
– Future commissioning models – Localism bill
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Sharing
– Information sharing
– Capacity building – infrastructure organisations – Big Society
– sharing expertise and cross training
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Coordination
– Volunteering
– Big Society implications
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QA, evaluation, measuring progress
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