APPENDIX 2 - SAMPLE
FLYING START CATCHMENT AREA CORE ENTITLEMENT FORM
Funding Year
Local Authority Partnership
Name and Address of School
LSOA – Llay 3
2006-08
Wrexham
Park Infants School, Llay,
Wrexham, LL12 0TR
1. Describe plans for this catchment for delivery of the following core
services, including details of partnerships, caseloads etc. in no more
than 300 words per heading
Health Visiting
A multi agency team with a community focus, will be centrally based to serve
the area/s, working to engage hard-to-reach parents and children who
traditionally do not engage, or engage with health services at a much later
stage than is advised, resulting in better outcomes for the child, measured
through developmental screening.
Enhancement to universal services to offer early intervention through
intensive support to the most vulnerable families via an holistic assessment
of need at ante-natal stage with more appropriate support to meet those
needs.
Health visitors with a reduced caseload of approx 1:110, and access to other
services eg speech therapy so that children do not have to wait unduly for an
assessment.
Empowering and supporting families to access services appropriate to their
needs and working more closely with other services providers.
The Multi-Agency Team will undertake an holistic assessment of family needs
which identifies factors that can impact on the child’s health and well-being,
using the Common Assessment Framework (CAF) tool. More intensive
support will be given where needs are identified either in the home or through
group work.
There are links between Health Visiting, Basic Skills and Parenting Skills (see
following sections) which includes linking into preventative programmes via
the Speech and Language service.
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Parenting Skills
Starting at ante-natal stage, all parenting skills provision will be over and
above universal entitlement, with those reluctant to engage being sensitively
supported to access services.
Health Visitors will undertake a detailed holistic assessment of need and
devise an individual package of support to meet those needs.
Using semi-structured interviews, Health Visitors will consult with eligible
parents in the area who have a child or children aged 0-3 years. This will
introduce them to the menu of services to be made available under Flying
Start and seek their views upon each aspect to inform our planning. They will
also be asked to give permission for their details to be shared.
A full assessment of parenting capacity will be undertaken using the Common
Assessment Framework, at relevant intervals, including ante-natal stage.
Following this a support plan will be drawn up with parents and lead
professionals.
Within the multi-agency team a person will be identified as a champion for
practice in reaching and engaging families, and will work to support the team
in engaging hard to reach families in the target areas.
We will ensure that all parenting programmes are co-ordinated across the
catchment area/s, including building on the multi-agency trained Incredible
Years personnel who will be working with parents in this catchment area as
required.
Initial work to develop self-confidence of parents to be able to access
parenting skills will be undertaken where necessary. Support will be offered in
the home or in group settings, with transport and crèches provided where
necessary.
We will link with existing parenting support services and organisations( for
example Sure Start, Portage, Dean Road Family Centre, Homestart) to bend,
enhance, re-configure or develop services to meet the needs of parents in
this area. Where effective parenting services are not currently operating in
the catchment area, we will replicate or develop high quality services to meet
the needs of parents eg. The Community Parents model could be introduced
as a pilot in the future to capitalise upon the skills of local parents who can act
as mentors to others.
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Childcare
Currently there are a limited number of settings within this area able to offer
the required amount of quality childcare. We will enable settings to provide
the entitlement through enhancement of existing services, within or just
outside the area.
Where there is no setting currently available we will create new provision, as
we are aiming to eventually provide a mixed economy of quality childcare,
across each of the areas.
We will link into the Genesis project and encourage parents who are
considering work or training to access this service with the support of the
Genesis Parent Advisor.
We will ensure that beneficiaries wanting to pursue a career in childcare are
supported through Flying Start where necessary.
Where high needs are identified we will refer children and families to the
relevant organisations.
Families requiring extra daily support to establish routines will be referred back
to the multi-agency team, who will act as lead professionals and will use the
Team around the Child Model where there are concerns.
Early Education will facilitate the training, support and monitoring of the
learning programme in the 2 year old settings.
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Basic Skills
The multi-agency team will use the following resources to enhance basic skills,
which are to be used in the home and other settings such as ICC’s, community
groups and by the Early Years Librarians.
There will be a focus upon early language development throughout all Basic
Skills programmes.
Bookstart /TWF– In addition to the universal entitlement which Health
Visitors distribute at 8 months and 2 years, there will be a third Bookstart pack
in Flying Start areas (TBC). Health Visitors will work through all the packs
with parents to ensure they are fully utilised.
Weekly Story Times- The aim of such sessions is to encourage speech and
language skills, develop early literacy and encourage families to read with
their children. Cymorth funded Early Years Librarians will undertake sessions
within all Flying Start areas, and will base these at accessible locations within
communities.
Fun with Numbers- The aim of this pack, which consists of a pack of songs,
rhymes and a booklet on tape or CD, (produced by Wrexham’s Pre-School
Basic Skills group,) is to develop early numeracy and speech and language
skills. It will be available to all children in Flying Start areas, and parents will
be supported to use it.
LAP/NAP-The team delivers the two programmes across a variety of settings,
and trains staff from other agencies to roll out the programmes, eg Health
Visitors. In Flying Start areas trained staff will support parents to use both
programmes on a one-to-one basis if necessary in the home, as well as in
small group settings.
Daisy Duck- Consists of a pack for practitioners working with pre-school
children to encourage the personal, social, listening, speaking and mark
making skills of this group of children. All practitioners in Flying Start areas
will receive a pack.
Let’s Play
A new pack will be developed called ‘Let’s Play’ for every child in the target
areas. The aim of the pack is to enhance the skills of hard to reach parents
and carers, in order to encourage early play skills with their children. The pack
will also develop early personal, social and language skills
Speech therapy will be enhanced to enable support and training to be given to
practitioners, which will lead to earlier input and identification of need amongst
children in this area.
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2. What steps will you take within this catchment to ensure that the
hardest to reach children are engaged and supported?
Taking into account parental views, we will evaluate and enhance existing
good practice and deliver services to engage hard to reach children, where
there are gaps.
Health Visitors are undertaking consultation with parents in this area, and will
conduct an intensive 1:1 interview to determine what obstacles prevent
engagement and what solutions would ensure engagement with Flying Start.
The responses received will inform our planning so that a safe, secure
services for the child is offered at a convenient time and within a stimulating
community environment.
The multi-agency team will ensure that all information is shared and
communicated amongst team members using a common Information Sharing
Protocol.
Within the multi-agency team a person will be identified as a champion for
practice in reaching and engaging families, and will work to support the team
in engaging hard to reach families in the target areas.
By working collaboratively, with existing service providers and links within the
community we would identify and actively target the hardest to reach children
and their families, eg Health Visiting, Dean Road Family Centre, AVOW, etc.
The wider multi-agency team will have the expertise to engage hard to reach
children and families and have established networks in the area. A menu of
services available to all the targeted families, would be provided for all levels
of engagement.
Robust monitoring and evaluation will be in place, with a Development Officer
to oversee this as the service progresses.
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