Provider Information Sessions
Welcome
Michelle Nicholls
CAF Briefing
Making CAF user friendly for
services
Common Assessment
Framework - CAF
Everyone who works with children, young
people and families want them to achieve
the best outcomes.
Common Approach
Assessment of needs and strengths
Framework for working together
CAF in Leicestershire
• CAF is being used across
Leicestershire, it seems to be working
• CAF is not as bureaucratic as once
thought; it is a way of thinking about
families that we know
• The CAF thinking can be used as a
brainstorm or to work collaboratively
with a parent or young person to better
understand their situation
CAF in Leicestershire
• Since April 2009 Dedicated CAF Team
• 7 CAF Coordinators –each locality
covered by 1 or 2 workers
• 2 Strategy Managers with a locality
focus
• More flexible approach – listening to
practitioners and making improvements
to engage families early
The CAF team will:
• advise and support regarding who is involved
• check for existing tier 3 or 4 involvement
• start to help you and the family put together an
action plan as soon as the CAF assessment is
received
• make referrals on your behalf where the CAF
can be used
• in discussion with you and other services decide
whether a Team Around the Family (TAF) is
needed or other approach
• support the Lead Professional
• review and monitor.
The benefits
• whole family, flexible and bespoke
approach once assessment completed
• reduces stigma and more equitable
• family involvement is central and betters
the chances of improved outcomes
• improved communication and workers
feeling part of multi-agency team.
Leicestershire’s
Children and Young
People’s Service
‘Voice, Choice, Safety and
Fulfillment’
Children's Services
The Pathway to Services document has
been produced to help clarify the roles
and responsibilities of Specialist
Services and early help services, aiming
to encourage appropriate referral
according to identification of need and
service thresholds.
The paper was developed to clarify and
aid understanding of social care
thresholds for intervention.
Pathways to Services
The document highlights the move to the
language of priorities, emphasising the
relative urgency of the response required by
any given situation.
Therefore a Priority 1 concern indicates that a
child or young person is at imminent risk of
significant harm requiring an immediate
response from specialist services, whereas a
Priority 4 referral is low-risk and needs are
likely to be met through universal provision.
Pathways to Services
This change in language enables Specialist
Services to define more closely when it is
appropriate for them to be involved and support
partner agencies in recognising child protection
concerns but also enables all agencies in
considering alternative responses where the
level of risk is less.
The document provides guidance around
appropriate use of the Common Assessment
Framework (CAF) and gives some indication of
other services which may be available to support
a child, young person or family with unmet
needs.
Pathways to Services
The document highlights the move to the
language of priorities, emphasising the
relative urgency of the response required by
any given situation.
Therefore a Priority 1 concern indicates that a
child or young person is at imminent risk of
significant harm requiring an immediate
response from specialist services, whereas a
Priority 4 referral is low-risk and needs are
likely to be met through universal provision.
Sure Start
Children’s Centre Programme
Blaby, Oadby and Wigston
Key contacts:
Locality Partnership Group
John Adsley/Tim Brooke
Locality Partnership Co-ordinators
Louise Rossol
Children’s Centre Co-ordinator
Kate Gregg
Senior Family Outreach Worker
Family Outreach Team
Claire Regan
Sally Whitehouse
Kerry Brooke
Rachel Bower
Huncote CC
Braunstone Town CC
Countesthorpe CC
Countesthorpe CC
Family Outreach Team
Becky Harrison
Chrissy Gent
Abeda Valli
Charles)
Wigston Magna CC
South Wigston CC
Oadby (Walter
Business Support Team – 0116 2750246
Based at Huncote Children’s Centre
Ethos of programme
• prevention
• early intervention
• reach into socially excluded
/vulnerable communities not
accessing mainstream services
• additionality
Core offer
• child and family health services, ranging from ante natal
support, breastfeeding support to advice on weaning,
hygiene, teething, child development
• appropriate support and outreach services to parents and
carers, and children who have been identified as in need of
them
• advice and guidance on a range of subjects, such as
parenting, local childcare options and access to specialist
services for families like speech therapy, healthy eating
advice or help with managing money
• help for parents to find work or training opportunities, using
links to local Jobcentre Plus offices and training providers
• support to Childminders (a base for a childminder network)
Core offer
The 6 locality programmes across
Leicestershire were developed based on
local needs, but there are some similarities,
for example:
• breastfeeding Support
• partnership with Health Visiting teams
• speech and Language input
• work with teenage parents
• MIMs
• Change4Life
Vulnerable or disadvantaged groups
A key principle of this programme is to target services
on those in most need:
Government/Core Offer/
National targets:
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teenage parents
pregnant teenagers
lone parents
children in workless
households
children in black and minority
ethnic groups
disabled children
children with disabled parents
fathers
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Examples of Locality needs:
children identified as ‘not ready
for school’
children affected by DV
children whose parents have
mental ill health
children and parents/carers who
live in isolated areas
children who have erratic and
inconsistent parenting
children affected by debt /
poverty / obesity
Levels of work balance
• Universal - Services anyone can attend –
very limited
• Targeted - aimed at specific groups/
addresses specific needs
• Outreach - vulnerable families requiring
support to access services
Hierarchy of needs
Higher level of
need
Family
Outreach
Targeted Group
Work
Co-work across agencies
Consultation & support for Practitioners
Open Access Groups and Activities to reduce isolation,
build confidence, make corrections, learn new skills
Information and Advice to Parents
Lowest level
of need
What we can do
• individual assessment of need when
referrals are made; each one is
considered on an individual basis
• work with families where a child is
subject to a Child Protection plan
• attend Case Conferences, Core
Groups, and inter-agency meetings
What we can do cont.
We are a tier 2 agency that is concerned
with:
• primary prevention – i.e. working with
universal colleagues to ensure problems
do not arise/develop in the first place.
• secondary prevention to tackle
emerging difficulties and problems at the
earliest point possible to get families
back on track.
What we do not do
• provide childcare
• work with families where there are
serious Child Protection concerns
• parenting assessments
• supervised contact
• provide services such as ‘Play & Stay’
that are already available in the locality
by other providers for all families.
Anticipated referrals
Parents who have additional stressors,
but who don’t meet Social Care criteria:
• relationship difficulties
• behaviour issues
• financial/Job stress (redundancy)
• parents who are facing stressors,
e.g. if a partner is in prison.
Examples of referrals Early Years
Settings may want to make…
• behaviour management
• SALT issues or language delay
• children that may have witnessed
domestic abuse of any nature
• housing issues
• children who may having eating issues
– fussy eaters or are over weight.
What you do next..
• ask the parents permission to make
contact with the Children’s Centre
Programme
• complete our Involvement Form
• send to Huncote Children’s Centre
(Hub), Sportsfield Drive, Huncote,
Leicestershire LE9 4BS.
Pathways to Services
Leicestershire’s Children and Young
People’s Service ‘Pathway to
Services’ document can be accessed
via:
http://llrchildcare.proceduresonline.co
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Academies & Early Years
A guide for settings
on school/college based premises
Academies
• What is an academy?
– Publicly funded independent schools that provide a first class education
• What is different about academies?
– Greater freedoms to innovate and raise standards
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Freedom from local authority control
The ability to set their own pay and conditions for staff
Freedoms around the delivery of the curriculum
The ability to change the lengths of terms and school days
• How are they funded?
– Directly by the Young People’s Learning Agency (YPLA)
Academies and Childcare
Who is the
Registered Person?
Private, Voluntary,
Independent (PVI)
The school governors
Becoming an Academy
conversion process
Registration
The school governors
Private, Voluntary,
Independent (PVI)
Parents, staff, & other interested parties
receive a letter of consultation.
Parents, staff, & other interested parties
receive a letter of consultation.
Q: Does the consultation outline the
future of the setting?
Action: Feedback if necessary on the
consultation.
Q: Does the consultation outline the
future of the setting? Q: Is there a premises
agreement? Action: Feedback if necessary
on the consultation
Application to convert/pre-approval checks
The school governors
Governing body starts the TUPE
Process to transfer staff to the academy.
Following Academy Order
Decision to register setting as a
separate legal entity. Application to Ofsted
for registration of setting if under 3’s.
Achieve Funding Agreement
The school governors
Private, Voluntary,
Independent (PVI)
TUPE process completed.
Premises agreement will be carried forward
to the Academy.
Academy registered at Companies House
(Company limited by guarantee)
Academy registered at Companies House
(Company limited by guarantee)
Academies - Company Limited by Guarantee
Pre-opening - Opening
The school governors
Action:
LCC must be informed of the new bank
account and the new Ofsted registration.
A new FEEE contract will be issued for
the new company.
Private, Voluntary,
Independent (PVI)
Action:
Review terms of the premises
agreement for renewal purposes.
Checklist of milestones & actions
The school governors
Action: Does the consultation outline the
future of the setting? Feedback on the
consultation if required.
Governing body starts the TUPE
Process to transfer staff to the academy.
Following Academy Order decide if
setting is to be a separate legal entity.
Action: Notify Ofsted of change to
setting’s registration.
TUPE process completed. Academy
(and setting if required) registered
at Companies House – Company limited
by guarantee
Action: Inform LCC of the new bank
account details and the new Ofsted
registration.
Action: Sign and return the new FEEE
contract.
Private, Voluntary,
Independent (PVI)
Action: Does the consultation outline the
future of the setting?
Action: Is there a premises agreement?
Action: Feedback on the consultation if
required
Premises agreement will be carried forward
to the Academy.
Academy registered at Companies House
(Company limited by guarantee)
Action:
Review terms of the premises agreement for
renewal purposes.
Further information or guidance?
Contact the Business Development Advisers
Gordon Beck
Praksha Bathia
0116 305 6816
0116 305 8048
gordon.beck@leics.gov.uk
praksha.bathia@leics.gov.uk
Free Early Education
Entitlement – New Guidance
Jane Norman – Business
Support Team Manager
Leicestershire’s Free Early Education
Entitlement (FEEE) Guidance, (previously
known as Nursery Education Funding) is
now available on website and is based on
the newly revised Code of Practice.
Provider Agreement’s have now been sent
out to all settings, based on the new
guidance - hopefully a good many will have
been signed and returned to us by now.
Central Government intended its new guidance
to be less burdensome.
The new Code of Practice was written to assist
local authorities, providers and parents by
making it clear:
• what outcomes different measures are seeking to
achieve
• what the legal duties are required by legislation
• what local authorities should do to fulfill their
statutory responsibility and ensure effective
delivery.
The new Code of Practice does not:
• prescribe what is down to local
authorities to determine or
• provide guidance on how settings
operate their private businesses,
including charges for provision over
and above the free entitlement.
We have used the same format on the website
for our guidance as feedback via our Monitoring
Support Officers, has been very positive.
The format we have used is outcome based,
the same as the Code of Practice and is:
• user friendly
• Interactive - you can click on whichever section you
want to see which should give you immediate access
• linked to other related documents such as the Inverse
Proportion document, Provider Agreement and the
many sample documents such as the Parental
Statement Of Undertaking.
Briefly, the Outcomes are:
Part A.
1) The Free Entitlement – that all eligible children
are able to take up high quality early education
regardless of their parent’s ability to pay
2) Flexibility – that children can take up their FEEE
at times that best support their learning and fits the
needs of their parents/carers.
3) Quality – that all children are able to take up their
FEEE in a high quality setting.
4) Funding the FEEE – that funding is fair and
transparent and supports a diverse range of
providers, enabling parents to choose a
provider that best meets the needs of their
child.
5) Delivery in Partnership – that LA’s and
providers work effectively together to ensure
children can access the FEEE in a variety of
settings that meet the needs of their family
Part B.
6) Securing Sufficient Childcare – that parents are
able to work because childcare places are
available, accessible and affordable, delivered
flexibility at a range of high quality settings.
Part C.
7) Information for Parents/Carers – that
comprehensive information is available for parents
about their child’s entitlement to FEEE and what
options are available in their area that meets their
needs
The main changes in our new FEEE
guidance are:
Flexibility
• No session should be longer than 10 hours
• No session should be shorter than 2.5 hours
• Not before 7.00 am or after 7.00 pm
• For those settings such as independents who
only open for 35 weeks, parents can now use
their remaining weeks elsewhere.
Quality
Inverse proportional support has changed to
reflect:
• settings receiving a grading of Ofsted Inadequate
or Quality Category (QC) of 4, will need to
achieve a QC of 3b or higher when re-assessed
after receiving 18 hours of support over a period
of 12 working weeks
• those settings identified as Satisfactory ie 3a, b or
c, will also need to achieve a QC of 2c or higher
after receiving 18 hours of support over a period
of 24 working weeks.
Quality cont/d…
For settings who don’t achieve these grades,
they will invoke Stage 1 of the de-validation
process and will receive a further 18 hours of
support over a further 12 working weeks,
after which if they haven’t achieved the
desired grade, they will loose their funding.
Funding the Free Entitlement
• The Early Years Single Funding Formula
continues through the autumn 2012 and spring
2013 terms using the deprivation supplement
based on where the setting is situated.
• The new guidance states that from summer
term 2013, this will change to the address of the
child. This is a mandatory requirement by
central government.
Funding the FEEE cont/d…
• The funded hours should always be shown as
free hours on parent invoices. The rate we pay
to providers is for you to deliver a service and
is not intended to be ‘passed on’ to
parents/carers.
• Any childminder applying to be validated to offer
FEEE, can now do so with a quality category of
a minimum of 3a, the same as settings offering
full day care and pre-school groups.
Delivery in Partnership
• Sharing the Learning Journey and Transition
Progress Summary with the child’s school is
particularly important.
• The new FEEE Guidance makes particular
reference to the Mind the Gap documents,
where there are six booklets giving top tips in
each, to support practitioners in helping children
to have a smooth transition to school.
Any Questions?
2 Year Old Funding
Jo M Fisher
2 Year Old Funding
• Statutory requirement from Sept. 2013
• 1,100 places. 20% most disadvantaged
• Guidance due out in September
• Funding allocated around Feb. 2013
Pilot to start in April 2013
in two districts
• North West Leicestershire
• Charnwood
• Capacity building for the roll out in
September
• Still limited places available for other
districts
NWL
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Wards
Number of children
Number of providers
Outstanding
Good
Satisfactory
Inadequate
Other
18
94
60
10
35
10
1
4
Charnwood
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Wards
Number of children
Number of providers
Outstanding
Good
Satisfactory
Other
23
131
80
10
56
9
5
Criteria: Entitlement to free school meals
• Income Support
• Income-based Job Seekers' Allowance
• Income-related Employment and Support
Allowance
• Support under Part VI of the Immigration and
Asylum Act 1999
• The Guaranteed element of State Pension Credit
• Child Tax Credit, provided they are not also
entitled to Working Tax Credit and have an annual
gross income of no more than £16,190, as
assessed by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs
• Looked after children and local conditions
Referral Process
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Children centres
Settings
Health visitors
Parents
We are working on the process and
procedures.
Consultation on process
• 9th October
NWL
• 10TH October Charnwood
Everyone is welcome.
• Initially contacting providers in NWL and
Charnwood
• Questionnaire via Inform
• Map out and identify gaps
• Prioritising training to settings in the pilot
areas
• Email Jo.fisher @ leics.gov.uk
Questions?