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Children and Families Where next? Context Next Generation Worcestershire 25 commitments to 2040 economy, environment and communities most recent ambition; Worldclass Worcestershire Worcestershire County Councils role Lead


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Children and Families Where next?

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Context

Next Generation Worcestershire

  • 25 commitments to 2040
  • economy, environment and communities
  • most recent ambition; Worldclass Worcestershire

Worcestershire County Council’s role

  • Lead and help shape
  • Infmuence, facilitate and enable
  • Walk the talk

Corporate Plan FutureFit Financial constraints; £25m p.a. savings to 2017/18 Reality and opportunity of ageing population

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Chief Executive’s Priorities

Reputation and Economy

what to be known for and why creating relevance to communities making it real

Relevance and Responsibility

changing resident and business priorities visible impact fundamentals of social care

Robust and Motivating

robust use of taxpayers money challenge to ourselves to be responsive and proactive motivating place to work and progress

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Children and Families to 2018

Maintaining and improving educational attainment

  • recognising different relationship
  • use of peer to peer and intensive support
  • improving focus on post school outcomes

Evidencing early help impact

  • Mainstreaming work of troubled families

Social work

  • driving through change we can infmuence; time spent with families,

use of agency, development of staff, caseloads

  • supporting as corporate priority
  • continuing to listen to voice of child
  • role of corporate parent
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Children and Families to 2018

Safeguarding

  • everyone’s - proactive - business
  • Multi Agency; hub, referral support
  • data sharing

Working as part of a whole (separate slide)

  • recognising impact on other priorities
  • think family
  • care leavers
  • relationships with FE and university
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WCC; how we will work

Great examples emerging

  • Flexible; fmexible working, terms and conditions changes,

adaptation to change

  • Responsive; roadshows, viewpoint, budget planning
  • Digital; blue badges, highways reporting on line

Further to go

  • Being ambitious in future plans
  • Working increasingly hand in hand with partners
  • Health, Districts, Public Sector, Parishes, Communities
  • Building economic growth into our role as commissioners
  • Leading by example; Investing in the future
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Our role as strategic commissioner

Great examples emerging

  • Real back to basics analysis of current and future need
  • Innovative design of specifjcations
  • No assumption that council provision is de facto

better than others can provide

  • Smart, commercial like use of taxpayers money
  • Recognition of role in improving social value
  • Persistent in pursing better outcomes and value
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Examples of strategic commissioning

Outdoor education centres

  • Staff mutual, private sector, charity

Early Help

  • Charities, schools, districts

Libraries

  • Communities, Parishes

Children’s residential homes

  • Council

Highways

  • Private business
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The next year; ambitious and challenging

Delivering FutureFit existing programme Checking back with our residents, businesses and partners Addressing the underlying financial challenge 15/16 onwards Creating a sense of purpose and endeavour with staff Delivering a Worldclass Worcestershire Your role key; assurance of quality, challenge to innovation, creating an exciting and constructive forward plan