STRATEGIC STAKEHOLDER GROUP 6th November 2008

1. STRATEGIC STAKEHOLDER GROUP 6th November 2008

2. Hertfordshire Children’s Trust Partnership STRATEGIC STAKEHOLDER GROUP 6th November 2008 Welcome Jane Pitman - Chairman Lead Member for Children’s Services

3. Hertfordshire Children’s Trust Partnership STRATEGIC STAKEHOLDER GROUP 6th November 2008 Introduction Sally Withington (Facilitator) Children First

4. Setting the Scene John Harris (Chair – HCTP Executive Group) Director of Children’s Services

6. Setting the Scene That Was Then…This Is Now Partnership with Impact A Simple Plan On The Horizon –National and Local Challenges

7. Joint Area Review 2007 • Outcomes for children adequate and improving…BUT • Arrangements to ensure that all children and young people are safe are inadequate • Overall performance rating for Children’s Services reduced from good to adequate • Strong service leadership and good capacity to improve • External support and challenge to accelerate improvement in social care performance • Strengthen performance management and impact of key partnerships

8. Progress…One Year On Good progress in response to key issues from inspection - ‘safe staffing’, now secure Improvement in safeguarding and the outcomes for children looked after – ‘Staying Safe’ is now at least ‘adequate’. Performance management improved significantly - ‘Service Management’ is now ‘good’. Strong ‘direction of travel’ over past twelve months - ‘adequate’ to ‘good’? APA to confirm progress

9. Repositioning HCTP (1) • review and re-affirm vision • commitment to ‘whole system’ change and integrated practice • fit for purpose partnership structures with fewer layers and streamlined business processes • clarity of function: executive, stakeholder engagement, and scrutiny

10. Repositioning HCTP (2) • CYPP with fewer priorities and sharper targets • a ‘golden thread’ from strategy to delivery • compacts between partners and HCTP/HSCB • a performance culture with accountability • a more strategic stakeholder engagement

11. Herts Forward HCTP Strategic Stakeholder Group HCC Scrutiny Committee HCTP Executive Young People’s Board Hertfordshire Safeguarding Children Board Crime and Disorder Reduction agenda Strategic Challenge Support and Engagement Staying safe Being healthy Enjoying and achieving Making a positive contribution Achieving economic wellbeing Young People’s Voice Service Management (Business Support) Integrated Practice District Children’s Trust Partnerships Holds HCTP to account for its impact in improving safeguarding • Childrenwith a Disability • Emotional Wellbeing & Mental Health • Healthy • Lifestyles • C.L.A and Care Leavers • Bullying • Standards & School Support • Early Years • B.M.E • CC & ES • Parenting • SSOSHL • Integrated Youth Support • Teenage Pregnancy • Youth Justice • Substance Misuse • 14-19 Strategy • Childcare Sufficiency • Child Poverty Top to bottom leadership for Integrated Practice • Needs Analysis • District Plans • Workforce • Performance • Planning & Commissioning • Participation • Budgets • Communication • CAF • Lead Professional Arrangements • MASTs & MATs • Contact Point ICS Outcome Lead for each of Five Outcomes and CYPP priorities Linked with key partnerships Golden Thread to CYPP County Children and Young Peoples Plan (CYPP) Priorities District CYPPs Themes in bold cut across all five ECM outcomes but are placed under one outcome for accountability purposes CC & ES = Children’s Centres and Extended Schools SSOSHL = Study Support and Out of School Hours Learning MAST= Multi-Agency Support Team MAT= Multi-Agency Team Version 7.0

12. Children and Young People’s Plan • CYPP is single, overarching strategy for all children and young people in Hertfordshire • Presents HCTP’s combined vision and aims for all children and young people in Hertfordshire

13. Shorter and easier to understand • Focused on outcomes for children, not services • Clear accountable actions, leads and timescales • Led and championed by Outcome Leads • Fewer performance indicators Children and Young People’s Plan

14. Safeguarding Children and Young People Narrowing the Gap between Vulnerable and All Children Service Management Children and Young People’s Plan

15. Children’s Plan sets an agenda for focus of Local Authorities and Partners • Happy and Healthy – stronger joint working between NHS and LA, with children’s health a focus for all partners • Safe and Sound – Staying Safe Action Plan • Excellence and Equity – ‘Narrowing the Gap’ and connecting schools directly with Children’s Trust and multi-agency working • Leadership and Collaboration – workforce development, commissioning services that remove barriers to learning • Staying On – 14-19 education and training offer • On the Right Track – Targeted Youth Support • Action on Child Poverty • Youth Crime Action Plan

16. Strengthening of Children’s Trusts ‘the new guidance places greater emphasis on driving improved outcomes and promoting cultural change, as the main structural changes should now be substantially in place’ Legislative options under consideration for schools and GPs

17. Working differently with Children and Families • the key change proposition: a systematic framework of preventative and targeted services, through integrated practice • 38 multi-agency teams around the child linked to Children’s Centres and extended schools consortia • integrated Youth Support Services, included core teams for targeted youth support • promoting a shared culture of prevention and early intervention across all agencies

18. Beyond the JAR:Innovation, Development, Ambition • Top performing Youth Offending Team • Innovative commissioning framework for our 82 Children’s Centres • Youth Connexions Service ‘leading edge’ (TDA) • Pennsylvania Resilience Programme • BSF and Academies • DCSF Pathfinder Projects • Channel MOGO • Child Poverty Target in LAA 2 – led by HCTP