Children and Young Peoples Strategic Partnership

Presentation Bronagh Donnelly

Purpose:Improving outcomes for Children and Young People

Structure of CYPSP

• Early intervention

• Integration of planning

• Optimisation of resources

• Communicating with Government

CYPSP KEY THEMESChildren and Young People’s Plan 2011-14

Western Outcomes Group

Western Outcomes Group

• Carries out integrated planning and commissioning for children and young people in the West

• Emphasis on sharing resources across agencies

• Role to develop a Local Action Plan as part of the CYPSP• Outcomes based planning

• Membership – those with responsibility for service provision on a West wide remit

BUILDING A PARTNERSHIP (Membership)

INTEGRATED PLANNING AND COMMISSIONING

ACTION PLAN CYPP

LOCALITY PLANNING

FAMILY SUPPORT HUBS

PARTICIPATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AND PARENTS

OUTCOMES BASED PLANNING

DELIVERY OF IMPROVED OUTCOMES

COLLECTIVE USE OF EXISTING RESOURCES

Specific Responsibilities of Outcomes Groups

Locality Planning

to improve outcomes for all children and young people in this area by –

•Listening to local children and young people, their parents and local communities

•Building on the strengths of families and local communities

•Building on existing social partnerships

•Providing a needs led range of leisure, social, health, educational and housing services in locally agreed and accessible locations.

Locality Planning Aims

The role of each locality planning group is to:-

• be a partnership at locality level at a geography that makes sense to the local community

• draw up a locality plan to address priorities identified through outcomes based planning and to

• mobilise local resources from the statutory, voluntary and community sectors to address these priorities – as part of the Children and Young People’s Plan

Locality Planning role:

Family Support Hub

Family Support Hubs What is it?

“A Family Support Hub is a multi-agency network of statutory, voluntary

and community organizations that either provide early intervention

services or work with families who need early intervention services or level

2 family support. The network accepts referrals of families who need early

intervention family support and uses their knowledge of local service

providers to signpost families with specific needs to appropriate services.”

• To improve access to early intervention family support services by matching the needs of referred families to family support providers

• To improve coordination of early intervention family support services by creating a collaborative network of providers

• To improve awareness of family support services

• To assess the level of unmet need for early intervention family support services and inform the relevant Outcomes Group

Purpose of EI family Support Hubs

• Partnership Based

• Needs Led

• Strengths Based

• Accessible and Flexible

• Strengthen Informal Support Networks

• Participation

• Promote social inclusion

• Measure success through outcomes

• Focus on wishes, feelings and well-being of children/young people

Common Standards

Early Intervention Transformation ProgrammeEITP

• The coming together of six Government Departments and private philanthropy, as part of the Delivering Social Change initiative, to jointly fund a programme of early intervention

• Working together / pooling resources to focus on prevention and earlier intervention

• Using data and outcome indicators to both drive improvement & demonstrate change

What is the EITP?

Supporting families when problems arise before they need statutory involvement

Roll out of regional Family

Hub Model

Early Intervention

Service

Parenting Programme

Development

Early Intervention Strategic PartnershipEISP

• Children in the DCC area get the best start in life and are ready to succeed

• The DCC area, as an Early Intervention City and Region, has improved life chances by working with children, young people and families, particularly those at risk from adverse circumstances

• Children and Young people in the Derry City Council area are happy, successful, informed, confident and positive citizens

What is EISP?

• One Plan for Derry’s commitment to Early Intervention

• Focus on 0 – 18 years old & families

• Formation of local EI Strategic Partnership

Aim

• Consistent framework across Northern Ireland

• Planning happens closer to child (whole child model)

• Improved outcomes (outcomes monitoring report)

• Greater ownership by communities

• Greater interagency referrals and Co-ordination between services

• Service development to meet locally identified needs

Benefits

Further InformationBronagh Donnelly

CYPSP Locality Planning Coordinator

Email: bronagh.donnelly@actionforchildren.org.uk

Tele: 02871342286