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Long windy road to success

Long windy road to success. Emma, POWAR and Lancashire Children's Services Investigation Team Rosie, POWAR, UCAN and Lancashire Children's Services Investigation Team Aidan, POWAR and Youth Council Bradley, LINX, Care Leavers forum

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Long windy road to success

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  1. Long windy road to success Emma, POWAR and Lancashire Children's Services Investigation Team Rosie, POWAR, UCAN and Lancashire Children's Services Investigation Team Aidan, POWAR and Youth Council Bradley, LINX, Care Leavers forum Ebony, Lancashire Children's Services Investigation Team

  2. Being heard and influencing decisions in Lancashire: the long and windy road. Perspectives from the local authority, the voluntary sector and from young people Kate Baggaley, Barnardo's Participation Service Hannah Peake, Lancashire County Council

  3. Childrens Services Investigation team (CSI)

  4. Our structures in Lancashire • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq5HoszmTsA • Power: SEND Forum For Children And Young People

  5. Personal journeys • Who are we, how we got involved in participation and how we ended up here today, what we get out of it……

  6. Aidan • Barnardo's invited me (or bribed me) to come to Woodlands to set up POWAR (the name we came up for the SEND forum). • I did Takeover day and got to give instructions to workers and I have chaired meetings with very important people • I like having the chance to be in control and keeping people in check • I am proud of my achievements and am looking for further opportunities to make links with other young people • Plus winning awards and being shortlisted for the CYP Now awards and being a Diana award holder • These look good on my CV and might help me get easier access to university courses

  7. David • I was 12 and got involved in making a film for young carers, they got me involved in working with Hannah on a neglect presentation (for the LSCB), then I stayed involved and met ‘my family’. • I have learnt to speak in front of people. Ebony • I think I was 12 when I got involved at the time I was a Young Carer • ‘I got the friends I wouldn’t change for the world’ • Going on residential and having fun • The workers and other young people give me good advice

  8. Hannah • Wales – Childrens rights, empowerment and participation and the birth of Funky Dragon • Youth work qualification- working with unaccompanied asylum seekers and refugees, school non attenders and SEND CYP • Salford- regeneration and local authority • Lancashire- Young People’s Service and then Strategy Lead role • Best bits- I LOVE what I do: the relationships with the children and young people, seeing things change and develop, believing in what I'm doing, learning……

  9. Rosie • I got involved in participation through Barnardo's. I got involved because I wanted to make people’s life better. • I helped set up POWAR the SEND forum • I'm involved with POWAR, Childrens Services Investigation team (CSI) and UCAN (young researchers group with UCLAN) • I get enjoyment out of it and I also get friends • I have learnt how to be more independent

  10. Jack • Hannah asked me so thought I would, then I made a load of good friends and kept on being involved. ‘I’ve met my group of best friends through this’. ‘I’ve learnt how to be respectful to adults’

  11. Kate • Youth Worker – reaching out to the isolated children and young people in rural West Lancashire • Teacher – introducing Drama to an inner city Preston High School with diverse intake • Holiday Activity Coordinator – co –production of holiday scheme • West Lancashire Young Carers – engaging and equipping • Barnardo’s Young Carers and Participation Service –accompanying young people on amazing journeys to become agents for social change

  12. Bradley • It was 5 or 6 years ago and my advocate told me about me about the Children in Care Council. I am still a member today. • Now I also go to the care leavers forum • I have got more confidence and friends • I have definitely improved my presentation skills • I have enjoyed the residentials and the people I have been spending time with • At the Corporate Parenting Board I get to speak to adults who listen to my point of view • I come to groups and meetings to keep making a difference

  13. Sam • I got involved with LINX a few years ago • Now I also go to the care leavers forum • I enjoy going • I have enjoyed the residentials and the people I have been spending time with • At the Corporate Parenting Board I get to speak to adults who listen to my point of view • I come to groups and meetings because I like to and because I want to make a difference

  14. Emma • I’ve been at Barnardo's for 13 years and Debbie asked me if I would help make a SEND council and design a taster day where I said Pizza hut would get young people involved. • My personality has changed I am more mature and less aggressive, I've worked things through, I've learnt to work with others, to control my emotions • I’ve done loads of things like being part of Ambitious about autism, working with the Department of Education • I’ve met loads of famous people through Childrens Commissioners officer • I think I can change stuff, I can make adults listen • It looks good on my CV • I’ve done loads…its hard to explain it all!

  15. Organisational journeys Systems and structures for participation, what's changed ……

  16. Local Authority- an over view about our journey • Pre 2010 some well established systems and structures but isolated, not built in and not embedded • From 2010 onwards: strategy lead role, Corporate Parenting Board and Children in Care Council, national and regional systems and structures, strategy and policy, network, Takeover, more involvement across Lancashire in services that effect CYP, leaders support/ endorsement • Ofsted 2011- good processes but could be better, more integrated, more representative • From 2012: commissioning a participation service for SEND and CLA, policy (CYPP), services, health check and YVV, Make Your Mark, Young Inspectors We Are Lancashire CSI (yp version); commissioning and procurement processes • Ofsted 2015 – inadequate but ‘voice of child’ was praised (phew!) • Training social workers, mapping and recording participation, Post Inspection Board, SEND service transformation

  17. Local Authority cont…… • Annual report – 1st year • Takeover month • Make your Mark- 2014 and 2015 • Education Select Committee • National and international influence http://www.fixers.org.uk/news/11300-11208/young-care-fix-on-itv.php Educational and health care plans Select committees CQC

  18. Barnardo’s- an over view about our journey • Commissioned in October 2012 to expand participation with children and young people in care and establish a SEND council. Development of LINX and beginning of POWAR • Working in partnership with Uclan - research project Poverty and Disability , Stories To Connect With • Chair of Corporate Parenting Board works with LINX to reorganise the CPB meetings – giving young people more ownership • Member numbers continue to increase as staff work collaboratively with LCC Virtual Head, LPCF, Fostering agencies and support groups, residential units, special schools, head of children’s social care, social workers and LCC strategic Lead

  19. Barnardo’s- an over view about our journey • Online community network launched KOKO. • Variety of participation models used – Engagement and consultation representative approaches rights based empowerment and developmental aspects

  20. What we've achieved and what's changed More built in and embedded, we’re building on good foundations not struggling to get them in place (we’re not talking perfect though!) • Mindset- across the sector/ partnerships/ orgs and services • Less fear (but its not gone) • Positive experiences • Strategy, policy and plans • Expected/ Senior leadership buy in What’s changed: • Numbers- 72,851 in 2014-15; 500 children and young people participate regularly in our participation structures (this includes Lancashire Youth Council, POWAR, LINX and the Young Carers forum); 37,482 votes in Make your Mark • Outcomes- individual and strategic • How to guides, training and methodologies

  21. Challenges – young people • Weather- its cold and rainy here! • Money • Commissioning- annoying and scary process • Young people getting older- we need to bring the next generation in including younger ones • Not getting feedback and follow up. Sometimes we don’t even get the truth! • Adults sometimes choose not to listen • Accessibility – in terms of meetings, events, decision makers • Sometimes children and young people are scared of getting involved or making change happen (LCSI) • Sometimes adults are scared of us getting involved and changing things • ‘Getting to 18 can feel like being on the edge of a cliff’- no support, all that work and then it comes to an end. Being involved is great.

  22. Challenges • LCC Time Changing practice Everyone wants a piece of us! What's most important when everything is a priority? Enabling and supporting Vs doing Balancing quality Vs quantity Representation – the eternal barrier! Relationships Sustainability • Barnardos Communication and awareness Transport and access Balancing reach and depth Evidencing transformative change

  23. The future journey • Many of us still don’t think we have a voice overall • Scores out of 10 (in terms of having a voice and influence in Lancashire) from the group we met last week= average score was 6.5 out of 10 but ‘when we started/ first got involved it was more like 1 or 2 out of 10’ ‘Participation is like a bus it goes forward, its goes backwards, people get on and off but it works best when we all get on together and stay on until the end’ Emma R

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