Graham Wright County Manager (Strategic) Children and Families

1. Graham WrightCounty Manager (Strategic)Children and Families

2. Sustainability • The landscape of change • Complexity • Children Act • National Service Framework • Common threads • Universal • Preventative • Safe and secure

3. Sustainability • Changes in Hampshire • The Children’s Services Authority • New Director starts August • Pathfinder Children’s Trust for CAMHS • Achievements in Hampshire • Funding context • Children’s Fund • Teenage Pregnancy • Early Years • Extended Schools • Wessex YOT

4. Sustainability • New planning arrangements • Annual Performance Assessment • Joint Area Review • Children & Young People’s Plan • Children & Young People’s Plan • Key themes • Joint priorities • Local needs • Universal preventative and targeted services

5. Vision Statement and Priorities included in the 2005/6 APA Statement Every child and young person is able to grow and develop in safety and have the best possible start in life; with every child and young person who is in difficult circumstances getting the extra support they need without stigma; All children and young people treat others, and are treated, with respect and have their achievements celebrated. Parents, children and young people are able to access information and advice on their children’s health and development with support available through websites, extended schools, libraries, children’s centres and primary healthcare; All schools are extended schools, community schools, healthy, safe and inclusive schools and enterprising schools with real links to business. Every school will offer high standards in the context of a broad, enjoyable and exciting curriculum, excellent teaching, and a positive and attractive environment; Services for children, young people and families are easy to reach and communicate with each other effectively, and Staff, school governors and volunteers working directly with children and young people receive the help and support they need. This vision has been agreed by all partners.

6. Key Priorities supported by the 2005/6 APA • To establish comprehensive, well co-ordinated preventative services to promote the safety and development of all children and young people and their families within their local communities, drawing on the resources of all stakeholder organisations. • To effect faster improvement in 61 less effective schools across the phases – those which do not hit floor targets and those who do not add enough value. • To support children and young people with special needs, together with their carers, by integrating service management to ensure timely, accessible information and assessment, with high quality education, social care and health services. To challenge and support schools and early education settings so that vulnerable individuals and groups at risk of not achieving the 5 outcomes, for example under-performing children from some BME backgrounds, are better helped to succeed.

7. Key Priorities supported by the 2005/6 APA Continued… • To secure the stability and life-chances enjoyed by our children looked after, by the additional support needed to improve Hampshire’s residential and foster care services: reducing placement movements, increasing the skills of carers, maximising opportunities for permanence, and ensuring access to high quality health services and education, in particular reducing the number of children looked after permanently excluded from school. • To continue the reduction of permanent exclusions from schools and improve attendance.