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What is the Derbyshire Children’s Partnership?
The Derbyshire Children's
Partnership was established in March 2017, and replaces the former Children's
and Young People's Trust Board. Its role
is to:
- improve
the wellbeing of children and young people who live in Derbyshire or receive
services from Derbyshire;
- make
sure that partner organisations are working together well to achieve this.
The Derbyshire Children's
Partnership will also bring together and support the Chairs of the 7 Locality
Children's Partnerships (“LCPs”).
More information about the Partnership’s
vision, terms of reference and membership are available.
Minutes of each meeting and copies of this newsletter will also be
available on this page.
Key messages from 13th April Derbyshire Children’s Partnership
meeting:
Jane Parfrement, Strategic Director
of Children’s Services at Derbyshire County Council, was elected Chair for a 2
year period. Andy Mott, GP and
representative for the Derbyshire Clinical Commissioning Groups, was elected
Vice-Chair.
Key messages from 15th June Derbyshire Children’s Partnership
meeting:
The priorities for each Locality Children’s Partnership have been mapped
and are summarised on the DCP website
An Early Help strategy has been developed for Derbyshire County Council Children’s
Services. The focus will be on
supporting universal services to develop their capacity to undertake early help
assessments and team around the family processes, and to implement evidence
based practice. Children’s Services
Early Help teams will deliver evidence-based interventions where emerging needs
have become entrenched but the threshold for child in need has not been
met. A multi-agency Early Help strategy is
to be developed. A copy of the
presentation about Early Help is available.
The Derbyshire Safeguarding Children Board has developed a Neglect
Strategy and is launching the Graded Care Profile (an assessment tool designed
to help practitioners to identify when a child is at risk of neglect). Training is available locally. Read the Neglect Strategy and Graded Care Profile
Details of local training events are available.
Key strategic information from Countywide meetings, including the Child
Sexual Exploitation and Missing Police Tasking Group, will be provided to the
Chairs of each Locality Children’s Partnership to enable a better understanding
of local issues and vulnerabilities. A
core data set will also be developed for the Locality Children’s Partnerships.
The latest Public Health Child Outcomes Framework (March 2017) indicates
that, across Derbyshire, outcomes for children and young people are generally
good. There are, however, concerns about
some indicators especially vulnerable teenagers (emotional wellbeing and
self-harm, substance misuse). This is
reflected in the local priorities which have been identified by LCPs. For more information visit the DCP website.
The 7th
Locality
The 7th Locality is slightly different to the
other localities. We are made up of the Derbyshire Special Schools. We
therefore represent the children and families across Derbyshire. Each school
also has representation on the other localities. Our main objective is to
ensure that the needs of our young people and their families are represented
across the county. Our priorities are:
- To offer support and advice to mainstream
locality partnerships.
- To increase emotional resilience in children,
young people and parents.
- To support the provision of holiday and after
school clubs.
- To ensure that the voice and needs of children
with Special Educational Needs across all localities and their work.
Locality Children's Partnerships- Chairs' contact
details
Anne Martin (S Derbys/S Dales)
Steve Edmonds (Chesterfield)
Jason Swan (NED/Bolsover) Temporary Chair
Adele Glover (Amber Valley)
Helen Scott (Erewash)
Paul Hunter (HP/N Dales)
Ann Harrison (7th Locality)
Case Study - Chesterfield Children's Partnership
Chesterfield
has a vibrant night time economy; in addition the town centre has an issue with
rough sleepers and street drinkers. These
considerations mean that the town centre isn’t the most appropriate or safest
place for young people to be.
Earlier this
year it was brought to the attention of the local children’s partnership that large
groups of young people were visible in the town centre during the evening/night. It was believed this was as a result of a
local youth group moving into the market place and a local band venue allowing
access to under18s. This caused concern on a variety of levels, as our young
people were more likely to be at risk of:
- Offending or being involved in anti-
social behaviour
- Vulnerability as a result of being in
an adult environment
- Being offered illegal substances
- Inadequate safeguarding processes in
both venues
The local
community found the groups of young people intimidating and this encouraged the
local press to portray young people in a very negative light. In an extraordinary partnership meeting we agreed
that partners would work together to:
- Share information and jointly visit the
venues
- Base Derbyshire County Council Youth Workers in the town
centre to support young people and the youth group
- Offer support to ensure the venues are
safe for young people
- Invite teachers to join the police on
patrol in the town centre
- Send a letter from partnership to all
parents of teenagers via the schools.
It’s still
very early days, but as a result of the discussions, many changes have been
agreed at both venues, including fire checks, training of staff and a change of
venue for a conflicting service. The LCP
is continuing to support and monitor the situation.
South Derbyshire
and South Dales Locality Children’s Partnership
The LCP in South Derbyshire is a thriving one; well attended
by a wide range of agencies from both the urban part of the patch and the Dales.
When we met on 4th July, we reviewed our current priorities based on
data sets and local knowledge. The priorities now are;
- Targeted family support
- 0-5 agenda and school readiness
- Emotional Health and Well-being
- Aspiration
- Young people at risk-child sexual exploitation and substance misuse
- Children affected by domestic violence
Each priority has an assigned Lead who draws in other
partners to assist in resource mapping, identifying gaps and drawing up
actions. One particularly successful piece of work has been led by Multi-Agency Team Manager
Gareth Leckey, under the priority of ‘Targeted Family Support’- see below;
During July 2016 Chris Lavelle (Head of Service) and Gareth
Leckey (MAT Manager) worked alongside Mary Hague (Public Health South
Derbyshire) to secure funding to offer a partnership training event for the
incredible years parenting programme. This was an opportunity to train
local primary school staff, Multi-Agency Team staff and volunteers so that they could then
facilitate groups in the South Derbyshire community. A training event
subsequently took place in October 2016 with 27 in attendance.
Since the training many discussions have taken place with
locally trained schools and volunteers about delivering incredible years groups
in local primary schools. As a result incredible years programmes have now
commenced in five local schools. Experienced Multi-Agency Team staff have
acted as lead facilitators with school staff and volunteers supporting.
The interest shown by parents has been excellent as has attendance at the
groups. We feel this new approach makes a lot of sense and bodes well for
the future. Schools have frequent contact with parents and this helps
break down barriers to participation and also sustains the progress made by
parents/carers beyond completion of the group. School staff and
volunteers currently supporting groups will soon have the experience and
expertise to lead their own groups in future. Indeed the majority of the
school based groups have now completed and plans are in place to plan further
programmes. Many of the schools are planning to use parents as mentors
for their next cohort. This is therefore a sustainable project.
Public Health in the Dales have also offered funding for a
similar training programme in the South Derbyshire Dales region and it is our
intention to offer this in the Autumn. Beyond this we are aiming to
replicate the success stories described above by co facilitating school based
groups in this area.
Future newsletters
In the future, the intention
is that each Locality Children’s
Partnership will have its own, tailored version of this
bulletin. The first part of the bulletin will include countywide
information and a case study to share learning; this will be the same
everywhere. The second part of the bulletin will include news and
information specific to each Locality.
Please tells us which version of
the bulletin you wish to subscribe to:
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