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Children Education & FamiliesRedesign proposals

Early Intervention Education

Children’s Social Care

March 2011

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National Agendas• Changing Role of the Local Authority• Reduced funding – finding new ways of working • Schools and GPs as commissioners• The importance of evidence • Prevention and Early Intervention• Early Years• Family Focus – Families with multiple problems• Localism –and Big Society• The Importance of Teaching. Education Bill 2011• Child Poverty

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Budget Decisions 2011 - 2015

• Full Council 15th February • £119m reductions in OCC budget with £54m in

year one – 2011/2012• Directorate must make over £18m savings with

£10.3m savings in 2011/2012• Any missed savings from 2010 must be added• Significantly changed financial position –

ABG/Specific Grants – GONE• Focus on delivering our Statutory

Responsibilities • Continued focus on Prevention & Early

Intervention

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Grants: ABG & Specific EIG

Social Care

WorkforceThink Family

YOF

YJB

AHDC

FIP

PAYP

Connexions

Children’s Fund

YP Substance MisuseTeenage

Pregnancy

Children’s Trust Fund

ContactPoint

Play Pathfinder

Cut in June

£26.069m

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Other Grants

£9.418m – (£4.585m)

School Support

Staff Training

Playing for

Success

Diploma Development

FundDisabled Access

Childcare

School Travel

Advisers

Probation/YOI

Partnership Funding

LA Standards Fund Grants Due to End

2011 (Pre-May 2010)

(£4.585m)

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CYP&F Underpinning Principles• Reviewing statutory responsibilities; and how we could

meet them differently.• Removal of ring fences and grant reduction means not a

salami slice approach, but total service redesign with built in flexibility to adapt to the shifting landscape.

• Prioritising support to our most vulnerable children. • Multi-disciplinary: multi-agency, partners and community

working together, sharing assets and forming more integrated teams.

• Investing in early intervention and prevention.• Assessing impact on equalities.• Avoiding unintended consequences.• Using evidence to invest wisely.

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Childcare, Nurseries, Schools, Colleges, GPs, Youth work, Connexions universal, Health Visitors, Midwives, School Nurses

Inclusion Services; behaviour, attendance, EPs, Locality Co-ordinators & FACEIT, Targeted Youth Support, Connexions targeted, Children’s Centre Outreach, Pre-court prevention and diversion, PCAMHS.

Children’s Social Care, Looked After Children, Statutory SEN and EP Work, CAMHS, YOS – Court work, Special Schools, Alternative Provision

CAF & TAC/TAF

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Early Intervention Grant• Not ring-fenced 3 items

highlighted that EIG provides support for: – Free early education

disadvantaged 2 yr olds– Short breaks for disabled

children – Sure start children’s

centres

• Plus– Raising participation age to

18 by 2015– Transitional arrangements

from IAG to all age careers service

– Prevent yp taking part in risky behaviours

– Support yp with LDD & MH problems

– Improve outcomes for families with multiple & complex problems

– Link to community budgets

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Our Early Intervention Proposal• Join separate services currently working and

contributing to intervene where children and their families need additional support, eliminating duplication

• Create one new simpler, streamlined cost effective multi-disciplinary and multi-agency Early Intervention Service.

• Deliver the new service locally using 7 existing young people’s centre premises as hubs – (capable of still delivering youth work in evenings, weekends and school holidays)

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NEETConnexion

sLocalitie

s&

Extended

Services

Inclusion

Youth

YOS& FIP

FACEIT

Plus smaller central countywide

services

NEET = Not in Education, Employment or Training

FACEIT = Family & Child Early Intervention Team

Inclusion = Attendance Behaviour

Inclusion

Educational Psychologists

YOS = Youth Offending Service

FIP = Family Intervention Project

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Hub Locations

• Audit of family need• Size and condition of accommodation and

parking arrangements, including recent capital investment; maximising use of buildings and minimising transport

• capable of operating as a centre for front line workers and with family facing facilities - Back on Track pay back

• Geographical spread

Early InterventionHubs based in Young Peoples Centres

Banbury Wood Green

Bicester Courtyard

Didcot Vibe

Abingdon Net

Witney East Oxford Union St

ANO Central Location TBC

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Geography

• 3 Areas – as now co-terminus with children’s social care

• 14 localities - corporate

• 7 hubs

• 26 school partnerships

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Raising Achievement and Attainment - emphasis on readiness to learn

• Persistent absence• Exclusions from school (fixed term and permanent)• Number of young people Not in Employment, Education or

Training (NEET)• Young people offending, including first time entrants to the criminal

justice system and re-offending• Anti-social behaviour• Child poverty• Teenage pregnancy rates• Substance misuse• Young people admitted to hospital for non accidental injuries

indicating self harm• Disadvantage as measured at Foundation Stage Profile• Young Carers

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Hub StructureEarly Intervention

Manager

Hub Manager

Community Hub Team Leader (2)

Community Hub Worker (10)

Community Hub Support Worker (7)

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Staffing of hubs

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How will other services change?

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CAF TAC/TAF FACEIT

• Work further developed through EI service delivered through hubs

• No reduction in resource – an actual enhancement

• Lead professional availability • 7 hubs rather than 3 bases – more local

and responsive*CAF = Common Assessment Framework TAC/TAF Team Around Child/Family FACEIT – Family and Children Early Intervention Team

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Banbury – all centres

Bicester, Kidlington

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2

Blackbird Leys, Rose Hill

East Oxford, Riverside

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Berinsfield

Witney, Eynsham, Abingdon

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Wolvercote, Saxon Centre, Cutteslowe, Barton

Carterton, Bampton, Standlake, Wheatley

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Didcot

Burford, Wood Farm

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Faringdon, Wantage

Chipping Norton, Wallingford, Henley, Woodcote

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Chiltern Edge, Thame, Cholsey, Chalgrove, Chinnor, Watlington 13

Early InterventionHubs

Satellites School sitesProposed for community led model

Young People’s Centres Audit of Need

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New Look Countywide Information Advice & Guidance (currently provided by Connexions pending all age careers service)

• Schools and College resource allocation to continue for Information, Advice and Guidance and statutory LDD assessments as before but more focus on vulnerable groups, IAG workers to be based on school/college sites - using current provider for 1 further year.

• Very small central integrated management team overseeing; commissioning, and contract monitoring, single interactive web site, performance, management information, youth QA and development, co-ordination SEN/NEET.

• One city centre client facing centre – Gloucester Green • Workers in the hubs focussing on NEET case work, vulnerable

groups and Post-16 NEET

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Youth Offending Service

• A centrally managed resource will remain to deliver statutory court work, ISS (Intensive supervision and surveillance), MAPPA (Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements), resettlement etc.

• All YOS prevention resources will be allocated to become part of the new early intervention teams in the hubs. Children and young people at risk of offending will be supported through the hubs. The FIP (Family Intervention Project) will be delivered and managed through the hubs. Current resource will move to hubs from YOS budgets

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Inclusion Access & Engagement (IAE)

• Much reduced central team carrying out only statutory functions, commissioning and data analysis re EPS, PRU (short stay school), Alternative Provision, Attendance, EHE, Social Inclusion Officers

• EP team will be attached to SEN team to carry out statutory assessments (as well as advice and guidance in relation to SEN) as required; any discretionary advisory work will need to be charged for

• All teams will contribute resource to teams running early intervention from hubs – one EP attached to each hub

• Buy Back services developed for schools that wish to have more resource offering specialist services to support behaviour

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Children’s Centres, Parenting and Childcare• Significant reductions in central management and

development stage functions; removing duplication• Reduction in passported grants. The effect will be felt by early

years providers rather than children's centres as they receive their funding through the funding formula.  Early years providers include pre-schools, day nurseries, out of school childcare providers and childminders

• Children’s centres will provide a network of outreach bases as spokes from the 7 early intervention hubs

• Children’s centres will continue to provide a range of universal and targeted services in 2011-12

• During 2011 there will be a review of the impact of our children’s centres alongside and related to the development of the early intervention hubs This will include consultation with service users and key stakeholders.

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Extended Services, locality work and play

• Home School Link workers and ESCOs will need to continue to play important role. Extended services funding is all passported to schools rather than being held and distributed by LA

• Other work will be delivered in conjunction with individual schools, school partnerships and children’s centres working closely with the hubs.

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Education• Reduced funding• Diversity of provision and freedoms

– Free schools– Academies

• Pupil premium• Champion of vulnerable children• Behaviour and discipline• Raising age of participation• Accountability?• Market failure

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Deputy Director

Education & Early

Intervention

Early Intervention

Manager(North)

+Specialism

EarlyIntervention

Manager(Central)

+Specialism

EarlyIntervention

ManagerSouth)

+Specialism

EducationalTransformation

Manager

ChildrenWith SENManager

Business Skills

Manager(withE&E)

SchoolOrganisation

&Planning Manager

EducationalEffectiveness

Manager

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SEN & Alternative Education• No reduction in central SEN support to

schools in 2011-12; Awaiting SEN green paper

• No reduction to PRU budget in 2011-12 pending review of provision and support for behaviour and discipline – to Forum.

• Charging being recommended for some additional behaviour support services

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The Challenge

To build a self improving and self sustaining education system for Oxfordshire

Only good or outstanding schools

Available locally in every partnership

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Children’s Social CareNational patterns increasing referrals and CLA• No reduction in staffing• Protection of the front line• Slight change in emphasis on management

responsibilities• Clear lines of sight• YOS court work• Disabilities teams

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Children’s Social Care

Deputy Director

Children’s Social Care

Policy, Strategy &Develop-

ment Manager

Safe-guarding Manager

Corporate ParentingManager

Disabled ChildrenManager

YOS Manager

SocialCare

Manager(South)

Social Care

Manager(Central

SocialCare

Manager(North)

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CYP&F- Implications for the Voluntary Sector Autumn 2010

• Significant Challenges:– There will be increased demands on the VCS and less funding at the

disposal of the public sector.

– Many activities provided by VCS are funded by grants from CYP&F – future uncertain and when un-ring fenced competing priorities.

– Moving towards a greater commissioning approach, but will need to build in more flexibility to re-negotiate contracts.

– Need for greater identification of risk and management of risk.

• Opportunities:– The Government wants to build ‘Big Society’ and locally we have been

working on ideas for community self help.

– There will be greater opportunities for the Voluntary Sector to take centre stage in shaping the future.

– There will be a need for all partners to work more closely to make the most of combined resources.

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Implications March 2011• Case work and working in partnership on direct provision

– Families and individuals– Mentoring, counselling, diversionary activity

• Future of services delivering youth work• Reviews over 11-12 with proposals to reshape for 12-13

– Children’s centres under review in preparation for re-shaping and re-commissioning

– Services supporting behaviour under review – potential commissioning approach. – Future commissioning models – Localism bill

• Sharing – Information sharing– Capacity building – infrastructure organisations – Big Society– sharing expertise and cross training

• Coordination– Volunteering– Big Society implications

• QA, evaluation, measuring progress