preparing for joint area review
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Southend on Sea Borough Council
Preparing for Joint Area Review
Briefing for
Children and Learning Partnership Board
May 2007
Southend-on-Seachildren’s partnership
CPA, JAR and APA Youth Offending Team inspectionEnhanced Youth Service inspection• CPA across the Council• APA and JAR take place simultaneously – JAR informs APA and
APA inspectors will have JAR report• JAR grades for safeguarding, LDD, LAC, service
management/partnership, and capacity to improve and additional areas for investigation
• Grade of Children’s Hospital Improvement Review and any Health Care Inspection informs health outcome for APA
• APA grade provides the grade for the overall effectiveness of children’s services that feeds into CPA assessment
Southend-on-Seachildren’s partnership
Annual Performance Assessment
• APA will assess all five outcomes• Tell-us survey will feed into APA (aiming for response of
1300 per authority but return of 500-600 make statistically valid)
Southend-on-Seachildren’s partnership
What will the JAR investigate?(New methodology from April 07)
• REPORT DOES NOT FOLLOW 5 OUTCOMES BUT AREAS OF INVESTIGATION
• Safeguarding (high profile given to safeguarding as this is not inspected through other arrangements)
• Looked after children• Children with Learning Difficulties and Disabilities• Other areas identified in our 2006 APA letter, e.g:
– Substance misuse – Absence and exclusions from school– 16-19 provision
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JAR arrangements
• Increased importance of frontline service observation• Increased importance of children and young people’s
views of services (e.g. case tracking – also parents/carers)
• Continuing attention to equality, diversity and human rights issues
Southend-on-Seachildren’s partnership
Post-inspection
24 Oct Draft report for comments
31 Oct Feedback meeting
12 Nov Comments on draft reports
3 Dec Pre publication report
18 Dec Publication
Southend-on-Seachildren’s partnership
Safeguarding
Strengths
• Local Children Safeguarding Board with independent chair – monitors that all agencies are fulfilling their safeguarding responsibilities
• Training strategy for all agencies
Developments
• Community Safety Sub-group needs to develop a higher public profile on keeping children safe in the community
• Safeguarding practice and training for single agencies
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Looked after children
Strengths
• Reduction in numbers• Budget in control and significant
savings made• Improved outcomes for LAC• Improved staffing, especially
management• Corporate parenting group
strengthened involvement of members
• Recently begun regular reporting direct to scrutiny
Developments
• Improving quality• Core and initial assessments• Reinvestment into prevention• Leaving care and employment,
education and training
Southend-on-Seachildren’s partnership
Children with Learning Disability and DisabilityStrengths• Make as much or better progress
as other children in schools• Statements of SEN produced
within timescales (without exceptions)
• 100% offered transition plans• Updated multi-agency LDD
strategy being put in place• Integration of Education and
Social Care functions• Lighthouse Centre
Developments
• Strengthening multi-agency commissioning and planning processes
• Review of education for children with emotional/behaviour difficulties
• Statements of SEN (with exceptions)
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Substance misuse
Strengths• Preventative work, e.g. healthy
schools• Service to young people who
misuse via Youth Offending Service
• New needs analysis and plan being written
Developments• Commissioning being
disaggregated from adults to be routed through CYPSP
• Multi-agency monitoring of performance information
• Schools involvement• Tying together the preventative
and treatment strands
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Absence and exclusions from schools
Strengths:• Focus on secondary (absence
slightly higher than national – 3 schools persistent truants)
• Permanent exclusions broadly in line with national and reducing this academic year
• Fixed term exclusions reduced significantly over last two years
• Integrated locality working – more joined up support
Developments• Requirement for secondary
school ‘collaboratives’ from Sept 07 – excludees of 6+ days
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16-19 education and training
Strengths• 14-19 planning group with
strategic steer across Ex, Thu, S’end
• ‘Collaborative’ offer for Sept 07 further strengthened
• Gained ‘licence’ (Gateway bid) to deliver new Specialist Diplomas:
– Creative and media from 08– Health and care from 09– (Need to re-bid for construction)
• Action plan currently being updated
• NEET reduced significantly
Developments• For new Specialist Diplomas
– Employer engagement – Staff training
Southend-on-Seachildren’s partnership
We want us all to Shine
Thank you
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