Children & Young Peoples Services Overview June 2012 St. - - PDF document

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• St. Helens Council

Children & Young People’s Services Overview June 2012

Introduction

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• Children and Young People’s Plan:

vision and priorities

• CYPS services and senior

responsibilities

• Service statistics
• Budget summary
• Role and responsibilities of Director

and Lead Member

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Children and Young People’s Plan

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• Safeguarding and protection: protecting

children at risk of harm or abuse

• Achieving the best possible educational

attainment for all children

• Achieving the best possible health

status for all children

Our Vision

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We believe all children and young people are entitled to:

• A good quality of life in a caring and safe environment
• Responsive, inclusive and accessible support
• Opportunities to learn and develop as rounded, confident human

beings

• Be heard when decisions affecting their lives are made or when

services they rely on are not working effectively

• Be provided with the tools to create a successful life and an

equal opportunity to do so

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Our vision

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We want children and young people to:

• Take seriously and positively the role of responsible and active

citizens

• Participate in consultation and decision-making opportunities

when they arise

• Behave in a responsible and reasonable manner, showing respect

to the community and its people

• Choose not to be involved in crime, anti-social behaviour or risk

taking behaviour that could be detrimental to their health and well-being

Key priorities

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• Reduce the numbers of primary school aged children who are obese
• Strengthen families and support children to remain within their

communities

• Increase the numbers of breast feeding mothers
• Reduce the number of women smoking in pregnancy
• Maintain a reduction in Teenage Pregnancy rates
• Raise attainment of all children and young people and close the

achievement gap between vulnerable groups and their peers

• Narrow the gap in health inequalities
• Jointly commission and/or jointly bid for funding for services to

support the achievement of key priorities

• Reduce first time entrants to the Youth Justice System and

reduce youth offending

• Reduce the harm caused by alcohol and substance misuse

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CYPS Structure

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Business Manager - Greg Tyrer Forward Planning, Management Information and Assessment Manager - Iain Smith Senior Assistant Director: Safeguarding

• Christine Williams

Assistant Director: School Improvement and Student Support - Paul Greenall Assistant Director: Early Help and Child Protection - Jason Pickett Director of CYPS - Susan Richardson Acting Director - Andy Dempsey

• Safeguarding Unit
• Youth Offending Team
• Red Bank
• The Grove
• Fostering Team
• Adoption Team
• Abbeyford
• Service for Children with a Disability
• Commissioning
• Looked After Children Team
• Young People’s Team
• Contact Service
• Statutory School Monitoring, School

Support and Intervention

• Early Years Quality and Intervention
• Staturtory Education Functions
• Behaviour Support Service and Pupil

Referral Units

• Learning Support Services
• Additional Needs/Inclusion
• Education Psychology
• Forward Planning, Admissions and

Home to School Transport

• Youth Service & Sports Development
• Information Advice and Guidance
• Healthy Schools
• First Response Team
• Emergency Duty Team
• Duty Team
• Assessment/Frontline Teams
• Early Help Service and

Children’s Centres

Service statistics

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• 65 Schools
• 22,380 pupils
• 4,818 pupils entitled to free school meals
• 10 Children’s Centres (+2 PCT lead)
• 341 Looked After Children
• 188 Child Protection Plans
• 0 – 19 population: 42,420
• 4,600 staff

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Budget summary

• 37% of Council Expenditure
• CYPS budget: £170m

– Schools: £106m – Education: £36.5m – Social Care: £27.5m

• Ring-fenced Dedicated Schools Grant: £112m

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Role and Responsibilities of the Director of Children’s Services & Lead Member

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• Local authorities are bound by approximately 200

statutory duties covering education and children’s social care.

• DCS and LMCS are expected to work together to

provide strong, strategic local leadership and development of an increasingly autonomous and diverse education and children’s services sector.

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Role and Responsibilities of the Director of Children’s Services & Lead Member

The DCS & LMCS are expected to:

• support the drive for high educational standards for all

children and young people, paying particular attention to the most disadvantaged groups;

• work with headteachers, school governors and academy

sponsors and principals;

• involve and listen to parents, carers, children and young

people;

• ensure that services for children and young people are

integrated across the Council.

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Role and Responsibilities of the Director of Children’s Services & Lead Member

• Ensure needs of Vulnerable Children and Young

People are met – including Looked After Children, Special Educational Needs, Alternative Provision and Youth Justice.

• Ensure Fair Access to Services – promote interests

and stimulate and support diversity of provision.

• Ensure Education Excellence for all – tacking poor

performance, developing robust school improvement strategies and promoting high standards.

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