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Early Intervention Service Review

Andy Dempsey Director of CYPS Director of CYPS

Why is the Early Intervention Service being restructured?

• Ofsted’s requirements for both Children’s Centres and statutory social

care have also changed.

• Current evidence suggests that the service is not effectively engaging

the most needy families. Our population of Looked After Children has grown significantly due to neglect and our current early intervention work is not effective in addressing this at an early enough stage to prevent the family escalating to statutory services prevent the family escalating to statutory services

• Schools in our more deprived areas are also seeing an increasing

number of children commencing school with poor social skills and impeded speech and language development

• The success of the revised delivery model will depend on the extent

to which it prevents the escalation of families towards statutory services and improves the school readiness of children, particularly amongst target families

Ofsted Framework

• Framework and evaluation schedule for the inspection of services for

children in need of help and protection, children looked after and care leavers (Sept 2013)

• integrated multi-agency approach
• Framework for Children’s Centre Inspection (March 2013)
• Framework for Children’s Centre Inspection (March 2013)
• readiness for school of target children
• improved parenting and wider capacity
• healthy lifestyles for target children

What is different about the revised model?

• It combines two distinct elements:-
• an early help/family support element – this will act ‘upstream’
• f social care services and aim to provide

practical support families

• a centre based offer – this is focussed on school readiness

and strong links with early years health

• Currently there is a lack of practical family support for families in

helping them to provide effective parenting. Under the proposals, the helping them to provide effective parenting. Under the proposals, the Family Intervention Workers will provide practical family support around child routines, domestic management and parenting skills. The aim will be to build family resilience and capacity.

• The centre based element is also restructured to have a funded child

care offer at its heart, with a strong focus on improving school readiness through speech and language development and socialisation of pupils

Feedback: Key Points

• No significant change to overall strategy
• Parr and Central Link are 2 main hubs
• Ongoing dialogue with Bridgewater re TUPE
• Ongoing dialogue with Bridgewater re TUPE
• Single Advisory Board over 2 clusters

Key Issues for Community Groups

• There was a general recognition that the financial changes facing the Council

required substantial change and a positive response to the commitment that no centre would close. Appropriate children’s and family services will be relocated to the ‘spoke’ sites to ensure that they can continue to operate and be available for community groups and partner groups

• There was a concern that support for volunteers would not continue.

Support for volunteers will continues as a key part of each Centre Manager’s role.

• There was a concern about crèche bank co-ordination and provision. The
• There was a concern about crèche bank co-ordination and provision. The

crèche co-ordinating role will be picked up by the Centre Manager with a resource in place to care for children as necessary

• Some groups of users want to develop universal services and requested our

support to facilitate this. Parent led provision will be supported and work has already commenced with a group in Rainhill wanting to commission their own baby massage service. The “spoke” centres will be available as venues to support service development in this way

Key Issues from Staff Consultation

• How will model address core offer?
• Safeguarding and H/S in outreach sites?
• DBS concerns?
• Data from PVI settings?
• Data from PVI settings?
• How were 2 main sites chosen?
• School clusters do not include Newton schools?
• Recruitment of volunteers?

Centre Based Offer for Both Centres

Early Years Quality & Inclusion

1 FTE Centre Manager 1 x .8 FTE Volunteer & Community Worker 1 FTE Speech and Language Therapist

Assistant Director Early Help and Child Protection

Children’s Centre Educator 1 Worker working across both sites - Part of Achievement & Inclusion – outside the Early Help Structure

Funded 3 - 4s Early Years Practitioners 2 x 0.68 FTE Level 3 (2.72 FTE) One to be designated as room lead per hub Babies & Toddlers Early Years Practitioners 3 x 0.68 FTE Level 3 (4.05 FTE) One to be designated as room lead per hub Funded 2 - 3s Early Years Practitioners 4 x 0.68 FTE Level 3 (5.41 FTE) One to be designated as room lead per hub Floating Support 2 x 0.68 FTE Level 3 1 x 0.68 FTE Level 2 Administration Support 1 FTE Admin Assistant Central Support 1 FTE Senior Admin Officer 1 FTE Clerical Officer supporting wider service

Centre Based Offer for Both Centres

Early Years Quality & Inclusion

1 FTE Centre Manager 1 x .8 FTE Volunteer & Community Worker 1 FTE Speech and Language Therapist

Assistant Director Early Help and Child Protection

Children’s Centre Educator 1 Worker working across both sites - Part of Achievement & Inclusion – outside the Early Help Structure

Funded 3 - 4s Early Years Practitioners 2 x 0.68 FTE Level 3 (2.72 FTE) One to be designated as room lead per hub Babies & Toddlers Early Years Practitioners 3 x 0.68 FTE Level 3 (4.05 FTE) One to be designated as room lead per hub Funded 2 - 3s Early Years Practitioners 4 x 0.68 FTE Level 3 (5.41 FTE) One to be designated as room lead per hub Floating Support 2 x 0.68 FTE Level 3 1 x 0.68 FTE Level 2 Administration Support 1 FTE Admin Assistant Central Support 1 FTE Senior Admin Officer 1 FTE Clerical Officer supporting wider service

Proposed Hub & Spoke Children’s Centres Model

Timescales

• Start process with Early Help Teams
• Top down recruitment of Service Manager, Team Managers, Social

Workers and Family Intervention Workers

• When recruited Service and Team Managers will assist with
• When recruited Service and Team Managers will assist with

implementation

• Internal recruitment process commencing within the fortnight
• Same approach with centre based offer subject to dialogue with

Bridgewater

• Process completed by end of May