Somerset Children and Young People’s Compact

1. Somerset Children and Young People’s Compact Overview October 2011

2. What is the Compact? • A significant partnership involving schools and the Local Authority. • Led by schools, on behalf of schools. • The main body for consulting on, shaping and directing policies and service provision in relation to schools. The Compact is intended to be a vehicle for joint working to ensure access to high quality education for all children and young people in Somerset

3. The Compact will: • Shape provision to meet identified needs and oversee effective and responsive quality assurance of services; • Maximise efficiency and value for money; • Encourage the development of school-to-school collaboration; • Ensure effective processes for support and signal where intervention may be appropriate; • Ensure opportunities for leadership and continuous professional development. 3

4. Compact Executive (from Sept 2011) 4

5. Outline Governance Structure: SCC Cabinet Schools Forum Compact Executive Somerset Children’s Trust Local Safeguarding Children Board Leadership and Continuous Professional Development (Somerset Leadership College) Targeted Provision for Vulnerable CYP (Children Who Need More) The Quality of Universal Provision and Sufficiency Task and Finish Groups Existing Groups 5

6. The Role of the Leadership Groups 6 • Consideration to options for service design and delivery. • Leadership Groups will be tasked with either: • undertaking the work themselves; • tasking relevant supporting officer(s) or representative(s) to develop the proposal; • arranging for an existing group to undertake the task; • setting up a discrete task and finish group to develop / implement a proposal. • Quality assuring and shaping proposals, prior to consideration by Compact Executive.

7. The Quality of Universal Provision and Sufficiency: 7 Early Years settings and schools improvement and enabling all children and young people to achieve their potential. Identifying capacity and support, for those schools identified as needing intervention. Planning and sufficiency of places, admissions and appeals. Considering and agreeing the priorities for and the provision of transport. 14-19 provision and raising of the participation age.

8. Quality of Universal Provision & Sufficiency Leadership Group 8

9. Targeted Provision for Vulnerable CYP Leadership Group 9

10. Targeted Provision for vulnerable cyp(Children Who Need More) 10 Promoting and raising the educational achievement of vulnerable groups. Building the capacity of settings, schools and children’s services to support children and young people with Special Educational Needs, disabilities and behavioural needs to have access to a personalised curriculum at an appropriate local provision. Links to Learners with Learning Difficulties and Disabilities to 24. Commissioning Alternative Provision, including PR/Short Stay schools, and supporting schools in preventing exclusion. Investigating and addressing the reasons for poor attendance, to monitor outcomes and the quality of provision (Elective Home Education and Missing from Education). Links Early help services – capacity and focus – children on cusp of care.

11. Opportunities 11 Shaping the future together for children and young people; Designing high quality services responsive to need; Leading policy, not being dictated to by national change; Creating a system that meets Somerset’s needs.

12. Further Information Contact: Chris Phillips, Project Officer – Somerset Children and Young People’s Compact Children and Young People’s Directorate, Email: cphillips@somerset.gov.uk Tel: 01823 35 7241 Details regarding the Somerset Children and Young People’s Compact can be accessed via: https://slp.somerset.gov.uk/cypd/compact/default.aspx 12