What key issue does your work address?

1. Fran HarrisonPolicy and Performance OfficerPolicy and Strategy TeamSheffield Children and Young People's Directorate The contribution of DIPs to improving outcomes for children and young people through Local Area Agreements.

2. What key issue does your work address? • Policy and Strategy Team: Key areas • Ensuring plans, policies and strategies fit with wider agenda • Advice and support on key performance indicators • Includes Local Area Agreement indicators • DIPs work: • Pilot group • Focus on Local Area Agreement • Can DIPs contribute to improved outcomes?

3. Why is this an important priority for children and families in your area? • Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act 2007 • Links to priorities already identified in other plans and strategies

4. How was it identified as a priority? • Chosen by Local Strategic Partnership • Criteria: • Contain indicators relating to areas where performance needs to improve • Link to themes and ambitions currently in City Strategy • Allow public to understand why chosen • Reflect views of GO

5. How have you as a data and information professional gone about addressing it? • Wider contribution re NI consultation • Issues re: • interim NI framework • lack of baseline data • delayed indicators • Knowledge and skills from other areas of work

6. How have you sought to put together the evidence required that can inform further actions? • Review of documentation, eg DCLG, IDeA, local plans • Interviews with colleagues in directorate / LA / LSP / other LAs • Priorities events to assess partners’ views • Review of data that supported decisions

7. What were the outcomes of research and what impact has it had or do you expect it to have?Examples: Data templates: • Not consistent across LA • CYPD best presented • Good practice to publish for other non-LAA indicators • Consistent information • Credibility

9. Percentages as numbers: • Percentages not necessarily relevant • Championed by new administration • Relevant • Accessible • More obvious impact of targets • Good practice for other work

10. Realistic targets: • Consider what makes up the groups • Interim targets may not be uniform • Consider impact of other targets • NI 117: vulnerable groups EETs targets incorporated • Profiling interim targets for action • NI 76: informed by statutory targets

11. Benchmark data: • Comparison across various benchmarks remains • Know other LAs’ priorities • Intelligence • Potential for LAA benchmark groups • Best practice from non-traditional areas • Impact of other LAs’ priorities on ours (especially non-LAA)

12. Table 1: Examples of children’s NIs prioritised by Sheffield

13. Table 2: Examples of children’s NIs not prioritised by Sheffield * This does not include the Welsh authorities in this benchmark group

14. Wider NI issues • LAA decisions based on interim framework • Untested • Log of queries • Circulate responses • Ensure calculated accurately • Encourage good practice via Audit Commission • School cross-tab

16. What changes have ensued? • Early days to see impact of LAA • Putting in the foundations as examples • Embed and clarify wider NI set • Use for other work

17. How have children and families benefited? • Commitment to improvement • Improved priorities will impact over time • More robust focus on key areas

18. Reflections: • Be creative – where appropriate! • Can you use in other areas of work? • LAA / NIS relationship, ie map good practice onto other indicators • Speak to people in other LAs • Don’t lose sight of what you’re trying to achieve