Integrated Prevention and Earliest Help Service (IPEH)
Together building a vision and plan for children, young people and families
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Headline News
Don't forget, it's Care Leavers Week!
How does the NHS in England work?
The King's Fund has produced a great animation to explain this in just over 6 minutes, with a series of diagrams too. Alternative resources can also be seen on their website.
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 Celebrating the work of School Improvement in West Sussex
A message from Deborah Myers, Director of Education &
Skills:
As the promoter of high standards for children of West
Sussex, the strategy for School Improvement challenges school leaders to secure
improvements no matter what their school’s status or governance
arrangements. Last year’s Key Stage 2 results were very disappointing.
Over the last 12 months the team have been working hard with schools to
support and challenge them to improve standards, especially at Key Stage 2.
As a result of this, we are pleased to see that results at Key Stage 2 have
increased by 10% among the proportion of children reaching the expected standard
in Reading, Writing and Maths.
We are also pleased to celebrate that the
proportion of children in West Sussex reaching a “good level of development” in
the Early Years Foundation Stage has, in 2017, achieved an outcome in line with
the national average. This has resulted in West Sussex being placed 78 out of
150 local authorities nationally, a rise of 19 places in the national rankings.
The Early Years team in IPEH and School Improvement have worked hard with all
our providers to help them achieve this.
We are not there yet and need
to further accelerate the pace of improvement. There is still a lot of work to
be done if we are to meet our bold ambition of being one of the top performing
local authorities in the country.
Working with schools and children to
support them to achieve the best start in life is a privileged, rewarding and
intensive role.
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Voice and
Engagement
Youth Mental Health Survey
Sussex Partnership NHS Trust is involved in supporting the development of youth mental health and wellbeing provision in West Sussex.
The proposal is based upon the successful pilot service, i-Rock in East Sussex and consists of multi-agency provision for 14-25 year olds. The project supports individuals with Mental health and wellbeing, education, employment, housing and relationships.
Please distribute the below survey widely as possible for feedback from the young people currently engaged with your services. For more information, contact Viki Ashby.
Youth Mental Health in West Sussex survey
News From Your Local
Hubs
 Alcoholics Anonymous (AA)
AA is offering a free seminar for professionals, on Wednesday 15 November from 10.00-12.30.
This presentation is designed to give you a clear view of the Alcoholics Anonymous recovery programme and shows how you can support potential members of AA.
The presentation is free but has a limited capacity. It is advisable to register to reserve your place. For more information or to register, email pilows2017@gmail.com.
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Stem4
App - Calm Harm
Calm
Harm provides tasks to help young people to resist or manage the urge to
self-harm. It is free to download from either the Apple App Store or from
Google Play.
The
app has been looked over and approved by the Youth Emotional Support (YES) Team
so can be recommended for use with young people that you are supporting.
Read more about the app
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Interested? Contact apprenticeships.learning@ymcadlg.org /
07883 305213
External Job Vacancies
DofE
South East Region – Operations Manager
You
will need to demonstrate skills/experience in people management, providing
services and achieving KPIs with service users. Interested? The online
application website is here.
Deadline:
Monday 6 November 2017, 12 noon. First interviews will take place
on Thursday 16 November 2017 in Windsor.
Contact
their HR department on 01753 727400.
In case you missed it...
Sussex
Safeguarding Week 2017
West
Sussex Safeguarding Children Board, West Sussex Safeguarding Adults Board and
the Safer West Sussex Partnership are joining forces to deliver a week of
safeguarding learning events, which will provide a range of learning and
development opportunities for staff and volunteers working with adults at risk
and children in West Sussex.
To
book your place, go to their website.
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