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Flying Start - Wales. Fran Dale RGN RHV MA Team Leader Flying Start/Sure Start Wrexham. Why Flying Start. Children within areas of multiple deprivation suffer additional effects of disadvantage.
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Flying Start - Wales Fran Dale RGN RHV MA Team Leader Flying Start/Sure Start Wrexham
Why Flying Start • Children within areas of multiple deprivation suffer additional effects of disadvantage. • Targeted interventions can reduce the social and educational risks associated with deprived communities. • International evidence supports these interventions which improve outcomes for children in the long term.
Why Flying Start • The Welsh Assembly Government vision for every child and young person in Wales. • 7 Core Aims translated the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. • All children and young people to ‘have a flying start in life’ (Core Aim 1).
Where is Flying Start? • Postcodes within Lower Super Output Areas with the greatest levels of need, and/or • Selected community school catchment areas, based on the take up of free school meals. • Identified by using the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation (2005) .
Flying Start - How • Support through pregnancy from a Flying Start Midwife and Health Visitor. This includes a comprehensive ante-natal assessment of need, with the offer of appropriate packages of care before the baby is born.
Flying Start - How • Intensive home visiting from Midwife, Health Visitors, Nursery Nurses and Family Support Workers after the baby is born. • Assessments based on the Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families ( 2001). • Utilising the Solihull Approach and the Home Inventory Scales and Questionnaires
Flying Start - How Parenting Programmes, e.g.: • Webster-Stratton’s Incredible Years • Parenting Positively • Handling Children’s Behaviour • Triple P • PIPPIN • Stepping Stones and others requiring rigorous evaluation
Flying Start Wrexham • ‘Bend to Fit’ – Sure Start and Flying Start now one team delivering services across both areas. • Allocation Team Meetings – Nursery Nurses/Family Support Workers receive referrals from Midwife and Health Visitors to provide tailored packages of care.
Flying Start Wrexham The Speech and Language team provide: • Advice and support for supervisors in the childcare settings. • 1:1 and group work therapy • Home based provision • Client led referrals
Flying Start Wrexham The Family Support Workers: • A 7 day a week service, including early mornings and evenings • Intensive packages of planned intervention to support families and children in need • Nursery Nurse trained with additional high level skills.
Flying Start Wrexham The Portage Service provides: • A home visiting educational service for pre-school children with additional support needs • Weekly home visits • Planned goal setting with carers • An opportunity for parents and carers to share their understanding of their child’s gifts, abilities and support needs.
Flying Start Flying Start grants to local authorities total £27 million in 2008-9, and are projected to rise to £31 million in 2010-11.