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Presentation to Primary Headteachers in West Essex

Presentation to Primary Headteachers in West Essex. Jenny Boyd Director of Local Delivery - West June 2012. Big picture - progress. Ofsted inspection of the Adoption Service Feb 2012 – rated good with outstanding features Good youth offending inspection

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Presentation to Primary Headteachers in West Essex

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  1. Presentation to Primary Headteachers in West Essex Jenny BoydDirector of Local Delivery - West June 2012

  2. Big picture - progress • Ofsted inspection of the Adoption Service Feb 2012 – rated good with outstanding features • Good youth offending inspection • One remaining residential unit (with 1 child) • Social Care Academy progressing • D-Bit up and running • Integrated Children’s System re-vamped • Review of IRT complete

  3. West quadrant - progress • Brentwood office closed, all CP, Family Support and CiC cases transferred • Service plan developed • Contact service established • Progress made on vacancies

  4. Big Picture - progress All open cases are allocated

  5. Local progress – West Quadrant 5

  6. Day to day challenges – May figures

  7. Sources and outcomes of referrals – calendar year to date

  8. Specific issues – West CSC profile • Smallest number and ratio against child population of children subject to CPP’s (14.1/26.5) and in care (36.6/50.1) than the other quadrants - implications • Profile of children in care is proportionately older – 70% in total over 10, with 40% aged 10 – 15 • 43% are looked after under Section 20 • All UASC children and young people in and leaving care are held in West quadrant

  9. Areas For Us To Focus On Continued recruitment of good quality, permanent staff Raising the quality of social work practice Continuing to develop and build effective partnerships Children at the centre of what we do Effective intervention which promotes family resilience; understands strengths and dangers Continued improvements in timeliness and quality of assessments More of our children in care in local family placements Working with children and families in the most proportionate way Response to national drivers 9

  10. National update • Family Justice Review – Gov response Feb 2012 • Munro progress report – May 2012 • Inspection framework – from May 2012 • Working Together and Assessment framework – drafts for consultation June 2012; published autumn 2012 • The Children’s Safeguarding Performance Information Framework – June 2012 • Gov adoption priority – change from Sep 2012

  11. Ofsted Inspection Framework • Current Safeguarding and Looked After Children Framework ceases in July 2012 • Interim framework from May 2012 – March 2013 • New framework April 2013 – multi agency inspections • Child Protection and Children in Care inspections separated

  12. Child Protection Inspection • Overall effectiveness including areas for development • The effectiveness of the help and protection provided to children, young people and their families and carers • Quality of practice • Leadership and governance

  13. Children in Care Inspection • Currently being developed • Likely to combine with fostering inspection and adoption inspection • In 2012/13 any authority rated as adequate or below will receive interim inspection – framework not yet clear

  14. Performance information framework - themes • Outcomes for children and young people and their families • Child protection activity (including early help) • The quality and timeliness of decision making • The quality of child protection plans • Workforce Each theme supported at national level by performance data and at local level by a set of sector agreed questions about quality and experience of those in the child protection system

  15. Munro Working Together & Assessment Framework Performance Information framework Inspection framework Effectiveness of early help Effectiveness of partnership working Experience of children and families Timeliness and quality of assessment and intervention “How do you know and so what……” A golden thread……..

  16. Contact Details Jenny Boyd Director of Local Delivery West Children’s Social Care Goodman House Station Approach Harlow CM20 2ET 01279 404972 Email: jenny.boyd@essex.gov.uk

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