London Borough of Waltham Forest
NHS North East London and the City
Waltham Forest Clinical Commissioning Group
Waltham Forest
Joint Children and
Young People
Commissioning
Strategy
“Best Start in Life”
Consultation
Questionnaire
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VISION
The strategy outlines our vision for:
‘A Waltham Forest where our children and young people will have the best start in
life, building resilience to take control for safe, healthy and fulfilling lives and to reach
their full potential’.
1. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this vision?
Definitely
agree
Tend to agree Tend to
disagree
Definitely
disagree
Don’t know
If you would like to comment further, please do so below. If you disagree please tell
us why.
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THEMES
To achieve this vision we have identified 5 themes that cover ALL children and
families in the borough. The 5 themes are explained in detail in the strategy.
2. To what extent do you agree or disagree with the proposed 5 themes?
Theme
Definitely
agree
Tend to
agree
Tend to
disagree
Definitely
disagree
Don’t know
Prevention
Laying the
Foundations
Prioritising
the Early
Years
Developing
Skills for
Life
Early Help
For each of these themes we have specified the areas that work will focus on to
show what we are trying to achieve.
3. To what extent do you agree or disagree with the proposed focus for work
for these themes?
a. Prevention
Focus:
 Make every contact with front line services count as part of wider work to promote
health.
 Embed joint working across services for children and young people.
 Tackle health inequalities with focus on infant mortality, safeguarding, teenage
pregnancy, educational attainment, gang culture and child poverty.
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Definitely
agree
Tend to agree Tend to
disagree
Definitely
disagree
Don’t know
b. Laying the Foundations
Focus:
 Build on work to embed health within the Local Development Framework
 Improve the access housing support for vulnerable families and young people.
Definitely
agree
Tend to agree Tend to
disagree
Definitely
disagree
Don’t know
c. Prioritising the Early Years
Focus:
 Refocus the work of Children Centres to deliver sustainable and effective services
based on need.
 Embed best practice identified through Best Start in Life pilots across all Children
Centres.
Definitely
agree
Tend to agree Tend to
disagree
Definitely
disagree
Don’t know
d. Developing Skills for Life
Focus:
 Maximise opportunities for improving educational attainment and support to
employment
Definitely
agree
Tend to agree Tend to
disagree
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disagree
Don’t know
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e. Early Help
Focus:
 Embed early help (intervention) into all services for children and their families.
 Re-focus services to support children during key lifecourse transitions such as
educational changes, and onto to adulthood.
 Develop needs based prioritisation for the troubled families initiative.
Definitely
agree
Tend to agree Tend to
disagree
Definitely
disagree
Don’t know
ADDITIONAL NEEDS THEMES
Further to these core 5 themes, it is important that the strategy meets the needs for
children and families with additional needs. The types of additional need can be
highly varied. As such we have identified a further 6 themes that cover those with
additional needs. For each of these themes we have specified the areas that work
will focus on to show what we are trying to achieve.
These 6 themes are explained in detail in the strategy.
4. To what extent do you agree or disagree with the proposed 6 Additional
Needs themes?
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Theme
Definitely Tend to
agree
agree
Tend to
disagree
Definitely
disagree
Don’t know
Accommodation
for Families and
Young People
Children in Care
/ Looked After
Children
Disabled
Children and
Young People
including children
with special
needs and other
complex needs
Young People in
Transition
Young People’s
Mental Health
Young Carers
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5. To what extent do you agree or disagree with the proposed focus for work
for the themes concerning those with additional needs?
a. Accommodation for Families and Young People
Focus:
 Partnership working between Housing and Children Services with focus on
families with children who have no recourse to public funds, and young people at
risk of homelessness
Definitely
agree
Tend to agree Tend to
disagree
Definitely
disagree
Don’t know
b. Children in Care / Looked After Children
Focus:
 Re-focus on health outcomes for looked after children to improve compliance with
initial health assessments, and plans.
 Increase local foster care provision and use of local alternatives to residential
care.
 Improve planning and decision making processes.
 Maximise and improve educational attainment and support to employment for
Children in Care and Care Leavers
Definitely
agree
Tend to agree Tend to
disagree
Definitely
disagree
Don’t know
c. Disabled Children and Young People including children with special
needs and other complex needs
Focus:
 Access to health and social care services for those with the greatest need.
 Improve data collection and utilisation
 Extend and promote direct payments and personal budgets
Definitely
agree
Tend to agree Tend to
disagree
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d. Young People in Transition
Focus:
 Re-focus on robust transition planning processes, and infrastructure.
 Build capacity and supply of local educational and life skill support services to
operate alongside local placements.
Definitely
agree
Tend to agree Tend to
disagree
Definitely
disagree
Don’t know
e. Young People’s Mental Health
Focus:
 Joint commissioning informed by NHS strategic review of CAMHS
 Joint commissioning of therapeutic placements for Looked After Children.
 Framework for response to young people with sexually harmful behaviours
Definitely
agree
Tend to agree Tend to
disagree
Definitely
disagree
Don’t know
f. Young Carers
Focus:
 Evaluate the young carers services.
 Improve identification of young carers through awareness-raising with Adult Social
Care, Schools and Health.
Definitely
agree
Tend to agree Tend to
disagree
Definitely
disagree
Don’t know
OTHER COMMENTS
6. Is there anything that is currently not covered by the strategy that you think
should be?
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7. Do you have any additional comments about our proposals that aren’t
covered elsewhere?
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ABOUT YOU
Why do we ask these questions?
Asking personal questions helps us know that the consultation findings are truly
representative of the Waltham Forest’s diverse population. The following questions
will help us monitor what different groups of people think about the different aspects
of this strategy.
All information you provide is completely confidential under data protection
legislation; your information is not passed onto anyone else; it’s not used to check
nationality or citizenship status; and you’re not obliged to provide information. If you
don’t want to answer a question just leave it blank.
Which, if any, of the following descriptions most closely matches your role in
responding to the survey? Please tick one only
Parent or Guardian
Carer
Childcare / Young People Professional
Education Professional (eg. School teacher)
Voluntary or community organisation
Other – please specify …………………………………………………………………
If you are commenting on behalf of an organisation please tell us which organisation.
…………………………………………………………………………………………….
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Please tell us the first part of your postcode (eg. E17 or
E4)…………………………………………
Are you?
Male
Female
Transgender
What is your age group?
16-29
30-44
45-64
65+
Are you a parent of a child or young person under the age 19? Please tick all
that apply
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Yes – 0-3 years old
Yes – 4-7 years old
Yes – 8-11 years old
Yes – 12-14 years old
Yes – 15-18 years old
No
The Disability Discrimination Act defines a disability as a physical or mental
impairment which has a substantial and long-term adverse effect on a
person’s ability to carry out normal day-today activities. Do you consider
yourself to be a disabled person, or does anyone else in your household?
Yes I do
Yes another member of my household
No
Which of the following best describes you. Are you …?
Working – full time (30+ hours)
Working – part time (8-29 hours)
Registered unemployed (Job seeker’s allowance)
Unemployed, not registered – seeking work
Not working – not seeking work
Retired
At home/looking after family
Permanently sick/disabled
Full-time student
Other
What is your household income?
£0 - £10,000
£10,000 - £25,000
£25,000 - £40,000
£40,000 - £55,000
£55,000+7
To which ethnic group do you consider that you belong?
White:
British
Irish
Eastern European
Western European
Any other White background - Please write in……………………………
Mixed:
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White and Black Caribbean
White and Black African
White and Asian
Any other mixed background - Please write in……………………………
Asian or Asian British:
Indian
Pakistani
Bangladeshi
Any other Asian background - Please write in……………………………
Black or Black British:
Caribbean
African
Any other Black background - Please write in……………………………
Other ethnic group
Arab
Chinese
Any other background - Please write in……………………………
Further Information
If you have any further questions about this strategy, please contact:
John Dunning, john.dunning@walthamforest.gov.uk, 020 8496 3699
Thank you for your comments.
If are return your feedback by post, please return the completed questionnaire to the
FREEPOST address at the back of this booklet, no stamp is required.
All responses must be received by 14th August 2012.
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