What is a Childrens Centre? The Core Offer for Centres in 30% most - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

What is a Children’s Centre?

• Early education integrated with daycare.
• Family support and parental outreach.
• Child and family health services.
• Links with schools and children’s information services.
• Links with JobcentrePlus.

The Core Offer for Centres in 30% most deprived areas must include:

11 Children’s centres “designated” in the Phase 2 cohort (in addition to the existing 3 Phase 1 Children’s Centres).

Phase 1 Children’s Centres (3):

Beaver’s Children’s Centre (Linked with SureStart Hounslow at ‘The Hub’) Crane Park Children’s Centre Norwood Green Children’s Centre

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Phase 2 Children’s Centres (11):

Dukes Meadow Children’s Centre (Cavendish) North Isleworth Children’s Centre (West Thames College & West Mid Hosp) South Isleworth Children’s Centre (Worple & Bridgelink Centre) Feltham Hill Children’s Centre (Feltham J & I) Bedfont (Fairholme) Chiswick Children’s Centre Community ( William Hogarth) Cranford Children’s Centre (Cranford I & N) Heston Children’s Centre (Heston I & N) Southville Community Children’s Centre (Southville Community Centre) Hounslow Town Children’s Centre (Hounslow Town) Brentford Children’s Centre (Green Dragon)

Be Healthy Stay Safe Enjoy & Achieve Make a Positive Contribution Achieve economic well being

A c t i v i t i e s & S e r v i c e s Activities & Services Community Parents Carers Each child under 5 years

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Interact Get & give support

• Ante natal clinics
• Breast feeding support
• Developmental checks
• Post natal clinics
• Healthy eating
• Smoking cessation
• Modelling good practice
• Swift and easy referral
• Childcare Provision
• Childminding network
• Early Education
• Stay & Play
• Childminding network
• Library Children’s Corner
• Toy Library
• Peripatetic practitioners
• Family Learning
• Parent’s Forum
• Affordable childcare
• Early Education
• Stay and Play
• Parenting support
• Adult education
• Training / Childcare support
• Job Centre Plus links
• Childminding network
• Tackling Child Poverty

An emerging “Children’s Centre Vision”.

Tier 1 All children

& young people

Tier 2 Children & young

people who are vulnerable

Tier 3 Children & young

people whose lives are seriously disrupted

• r who have complex

Needs.

Tier 4 Children & young people

at risk of death or serious harm CAMHS EWOs Children in Need Team Health Professionals Police Child Protection Team Police Health Specialists

Schools Preventive Health Services Tiers of Need and Intervention – Where do Extended Schools & Children’s Centres fit?

Extended Schools Children’s Centres Health Specialists CAMHS Children in Need Team Police Specialist Education Support

Phase 2 construction work to schedule:

• Completion of buildings by end March except -
• Hounslow Town and Dukes Meadow with

approved slippage due to complexity of work involving existing and occupied school buildings.

Range of services will be expanded as the result of:

• Premises becoming available.
• Recruiting staff.

Work in progress:

• Fitting out and equipping
• Developing membership of governance
• Management
• Leases with daycare providers
• Premises agreements with schools
• Service level agreements
• Recruiting staff
• Centre delivery plans
• Performance management systems
• Baselines and self-evaluation

Phase 3

• 2008 – 2010
• Funding focused on running centres
• Assumption that existing premises left for phase 3
• Building work needed for phase 2 centres in existing

premises

• Geography given
• Changing demographics
• Matching strategy with realistic opportunities
• Consulting and nurturing interest