Every Child Matters: Change for Children Michael Blakey Change for Children Partnership Extended Schools Conference 4 th March 2005
Every Child Matters: Change for Children
Michael BlakeyChange for Children Partnership
Extended Schools Conference4th March 2005
Every Child Matters: Change for Children
• How did we get to where we are?
•What are the drivers?
•What is the national agenda?
• How is our local change programme developing?
Every Child Matters – Five Aims
Enjoying and Achieving
Making A Positive Contribution
Being Healthy
Economic Well-being
Staying Safe
Every Child Matters…the vision
Radical improvement in opportunities and outcomes for children, driven by
whole-system reform of the delivery of children’s services.
Every Child Matters- National Progress So Far
• Legislative foundation: the Children Act 2004
• Outcomes Framework• Cross-government change programme• Building a national framework for 150
local change programmes• 35 Children’s Trust Pilots
Children Act 2004Establishing –• Children’s Commissioner• Duty to cooperate• Duty to safeguard and promote welfare of children• Duty to set up Local Safeguarding Children Boards• Provision for indexes or databases to enable better
sharing of information• Single statutory Children and Young People’s Plan • Director / Lead Member for Children’s Services • Joint Inspection Framework / Joint Area Reviews
Duty to cooperate
• The new duties in section 10 of the Children Act 2004 require local authorities and their ‘relevant partners’ to cooperate to improve children’s wellbeing: this is defined as the five outcomes. Local authorities must take a lead in making arrangements to promote cooperation between local agencies whose work impacts on children within the authority’s area. The relevant partners must cooperate with the authority in its making of those arrangements
Driving Change – Children’s Trusts
• Arrangements for working together to improve outcomes for all children and young people through:
• front line staff providing integrated services, including Children’s Centres and Extended Schools
• the processes to support these services• the planning which sets their direction• the governance arrangements which sustain
them
The Children’s Trust in action
Outcomesfor children & young people
Change for Children in Cumbria
Change for Children
Partnership Board
Change for ChildrenPartnership (CfCP)
Governance
e.g.CCC Cabinet
ConnexionsBoard
Children and Young People’s Strategic
Partnership
Children & Young People
StrategicHealth
Authority
Director of Education
Director of Social
Services
Conservative Member
Labour Member
Liberal Democrat Member
Chair of Connexions
Cumbria
Voluntary Sector
Chief Executives
of three Hospital Trusts *
Chief Executives of
North Cumbria & Morecambe Bay PCTs
Chief ExecutiveCumbria County Council
Board
* A representative from each of –
North Cumbria Mental Health & Learning Disabilities NHS
Morecambe Bay Hospital Trust
North Cumbria Acute Hospital Trust
Change for Children Partnership….a growing partnership
ConnexionsVoluntary Sector
Social Service
Strategic Health Authority
District/Borough Councils
Children’s Fund
Local Sure Start ProgrammesEducation,
including Cumbria Sure Start
Cumbria County Council Corporate Centre
Morecambe Bay PrimaryCare Trust
North Cumbria PrimaryCare Trust
Youth Offending Team
North Cumbria Mental Health & Learning Disabilities Trust
North Cumbria Acute Hospital Trust
SchoolsMorecambe Bay Hospital Trust
Learning & Skills Council
Cumbria Constabulary
WiderChange for
Children Partnership
Co-locatedCore Team
Change for Children Partnership Board
Information Sharing &
Assessment
ISA
The Voice of Children &
Young People, Families &
Carers
How do I find out more?
• Every Child Matters website www.everychildmatters.gov.uk
Every Child Matters: Change for Children