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Joint Children’s Trust Induction Working Together for all our Children

Joint Children’s Trust Induction Working Together for all our Children. Helen Jenner Corporate Director of Children’s Services. Joint Children’s Trust Induction Role of the Children's Trust and the Local Safeguarding Children’s Board.

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Joint Children’s Trust Induction Working Together for all our Children

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  1. Joint Children’s Trust InductionWorking Together for all our Children Helen JennerCorporate Director of Children’s Services

  2. Joint Children’s Trust InductionRole of the Children's Trust and the Local Safeguarding Children’s Board Meena KishinaniDivisional Director Strategic Commissioning, Safeguarding & Early Help

  3. The Children’s Trust - working together for all our children Helen Jenner Director for Children’s Services

  4. Children’s Trust Aims In Barking and Dagenham: Every child is valued, supported and challenged so that they develop the ambition, skills and resilience to succeed. Every child knows that they are a part of and have a responsibility to contribute to, building a strong, empowered and cohesive community.

  5. To make a bigger difference for our children, young people and families building achievement, community cohesion and empowerment. Why Think Family…?

  6. Effective parenting protects against the risks of: Growing up poor or in a deprived neighbourhood Likelihood of anti-social behaviour and crime Poor educational attainment Poor health outcomes Low emotional resilience We need to Support those parents who are struggling Challenge parents who are unable or unwilling to meet their responsibilities Effective parenting improves outcomes for children

  7. Family can also be a source of risk Parental drug misuse • Parental problem drug use associated with neglect, poverty, physical or emotional abuse, separation and exposure to criminal behaviour • 2-3% of children have a parent misusing Class A drugs • Alcohol misuse identified as a factor in 50% of all child protection cases • 1.3m children live with parents who misuse alcohol Alcohol misuse Domestic violence • 25% children witnessing domestic violence have serious social and behavioural problems • Estimates suggest at least 240,000 children exposed to DV • 63% of boys with convicted fathers go on to be convicted themselves • children of prisoners have 3 times the risk for mental health problems or delinquent behaviour compared to their peers • 162,000 children had a parent in prison (2005), 55% of female offenders have a child under 16hildr Parental offending

  8. Where do we need to get to? A integrated and appropriate service response to all families, including those at risk • Joinedup intensive provision sufficient to meet the needs of the most extreme families (whatever their combinations of problems) High • Changes in attitudes, culture and behaviour at local level and on the front line (achieved by ‘Think Family’, SAFEguarding systems, workforce reform and Children's Trusts)to identify and intervene early with all families at risk Medium • Community empowerment and early parenting and family support e.g. websites and helplines delivered through universal services Low

  9. Children’s Trust Themes • 5 themes • Keeping children safe • Ensuring children enjoy life and achieve well • Improve children’s health • Integrate our services for maximum impact • Tackle child poverty and reduce its impact on our children This years programme • 21 Jan (Priority 3 Health)- 2.00pm, • 4 March (Priority 5 Child Poverty theme)- 9.30am • 22 April (Priority 1 Safe theme)- 2.00pm • 3 June (Engagement theme)- 9.30am • 15 July (Priority 4 Integrating Services)- 9.30am • 9 Sep (Priority 1 Safe theme)- 2.00pm • 21 Oct (Priority 2 Enjoy & Achieve)- 9.30am • 2 Dec (Integrating Services)- 9.30am

  10. Children’s Services THE BIG FIVE • Workforce to transform social care • Integrated inclusive practice • Sufficient SUITABLE School Places • Effective Early Intervention Services • Plan, Programme and Project Manage The WISE Plan!

  11. Established in April 2006 Children’s Act 2004 Death of Victoria Climbié Requirement to have LA Lead – Chair Director of Children’s Services and an appointed Lead Member Agency Cooperation and Partnership Working The Children’s Trust

  12. Duty to cooperate laid out in s10 of Children Act 2004; duty on all local authorities in making arrangements to promote cooperation between the LA, relevant partners and other locally determined partners to improve the well-being of children in the area; “Relevant partners” must cooperate with improve children’s well-being; but there is now considerable flexibility in how local; partners implement Children's Trusts/Partnerships The Legal Duty to Cooperate

  13. The Legal Duty to Cooperate – what has changed • From 31 October 2010 • Heavily prescriptive statutory guidance on Children’s Trust was withdrawn; • Children and Young People’s Plan (CYPP) regulations were revoked by Coalition Government – Children's Trust no longer required to produce a statutory CYPP but may continue to do so where it makes sense locally; • Our Children's Trust has continued to produce a CYPP strategic plan, reviewed annually; and • Government planned to remove schools and colleges from duty to cooperate in 2011 – this did not happen and it is still statutory i.e. in s10 of Children’s Act 2004.

  14. Responsible for ensuring the delivery of Children and Young People’s Plan Identifies local needs and key priority areas for children’s services across the Borough Commissions services to meet needs Ensures resources across the partnership are used efficiently, in line with identified needs and avoids duplication Monitors and evaluates performance Scrutinising individual agencies, reshaping services where necessary What does the Children’s Trust do?

  15. Membership of the Children’s Trust

  16. Children and Young People’s Plan 2011 – 2016

  17. Ensure children & young people in our borough are safe Narrowing the gap - raise attainment & realise aspiration for every child Improve health & wellbeing, with a particular focus on tackling obesity and poor sexual health Improve support and fully integrate services for vulnerable children, young people and families (particularly children in care and children with disabilities) Challenging child poverty - preventing poor children becoming poor adults CYPP Priorities 2011-2016

  18. Children’s Trust Structure

  19. Delegated responsibility from the Trust to: Coordinate activity across the sector Achieve the agreed priorities in the CYPP Performance Management Challenge of current arrangements Commission and de-commission services Will report to the Trust quarterly Role of the Sub - Boards

  20. Integrated Working

  21. Integrated Strategy Integrated Processes Integrated Front-Line Delivery Families Community Outcomesfor children & young people Parents Making Cooperation Work in Practice Inter-Agency Governance • Children’s Trust • Common Assessment Framework and Joint Commissioning • Children and Young People’s Plan (CYPP) and Early Help Strategy • Multi agency team’s – Locality Structures

  22. Unity Through Diversity Unity through Diversity? Not Uniformity?

  23. Information Sharing along a Continuum

  24. The Prevention Funnel P – Primary Intervention S – Secondary Prevention T – Tertiary Prevention xxx xxx xxx P S T

  25. Locality Support Officer Social Worker Family Support Co-ordinator Integrated Early Help Evaluator Primary Mental Heath Worker Youth Worker Attendance Officer Inclusion Officer Targeted Personal Advisor Health representative Multi-Agency Panels (MAPs)

  26. Barking and Dagenham Safeguarding Children Board (BDSCB)

  27. Local Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB) • The responsibilities of BDSCB are complementary to those of the Children's Trust. The BDSCB is not a subordinate to, nor subsumed within the Children's Trust Board structures, maintaining a separate identity and independent voice.

  28. Local Governance Arrangements

  29. To hold agencies to account on their Safeguarding practice To ensure children of B&D are safeguarded Enhance community engagement in the agenda To promote co-operation to improve the wellbeing of children in the local area. Independent Chair Sarah Baker Role of the Local Safeguarding Children Board

  30. BDSCB Board Priorities 2013-14 During 2013-14 the BDSCB continued to embed the HM Government’s “Working Together to Safeguard Children (2013), focussing on a range of activities and initiatives to support the quality of early help that is available for children and families. These include: • Rollout of E-CAF assessment tool; • Taking forward the troubled families agenda; • Embedding the Multi Agency Safeguarding Hub (MASH); • Strengthening joint working between Adult and Children’s services; and

  31. Cont….. • Embed Quality Assurance through learning and development from front line services through to the BDSCB. • We will be working to gain greater insight into the faith and culture communities to support families living within LBBD. • We will be working across the LSCB partnership to protect children and young people from Child Sexual exploitation • Young people have also been asked to support the BDSCB to promote the health of young people.

  32. DELIVERING A GREAT SERVICE TO THE CHILDREN OF BARKING AND DAGENHAM KEEPING THEM SAFE AND ENABLING THEM TO ACHIEVE THE BEST POSSIBLE OUTCOMES! … and ultimately…

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