Agenda and minutes

Mark Lee; Alison Naismith; Gaynor Mullins; David Mellor;

Ch Supt Caroline Ball; Dr Stephen Watkins; Alison Cresswell; Nigel Groves; Jo Ellis;

none

To approve as a correct record and sign the Minutes of the meeting held on 15^th July, 2014

The Minutes (copies of which had been circulated) of the meeting held on 15 July 2014 were approved as a correct record and signed by the Chair.

To Follow

This report is the conclusion of a review of services, and what actions should be carried out in the future to improve those services. The following comments were made

·       Stockport is effective in responding to incidents but  the focus on prevention and addressing behaviour requires improvement

·        Governance – The Troubled Families Steering group to become the strategic forum to monitor progress

·        We should be raising this as part of our workforce development. 

·       We need to build our evidence base on entrenched behaviours, target the right families, and carry out more work with perpetrators to improve behaviour

·        Perpetrators – we need to continue to campaign about  lack of resources for working with perpetrators

·       schools need to be more aware and can information be shared more easily

·        Could we better use social media to promote this amongst young people?

ACTION: CML to ensure that comments are reflected in the strategy.

Processes: all proposals raised in July 2014 have been taken forward and are now going into the first round of scrutiny committees. 

• Phil Beswick is responsible for the 0-25 business case and there have been no changes.
• Chris McLoughlin is responsible for the Integrated Children’s Services business case which also stays the same.
• Integrating Heath and Social Care (H&SC): the proposal is to move the creation of a large pooled budget forward into next year, so we’ve had to bring forward some savings – mostly into Adults preventive working. Donna Sager has some changes in view in the integrated H&SC.   

Katy Frankland asked when will changes take place re: commissioning in relation to the Voluntary Sector (VS)?  Dates for road shows covering the possible changes are in place and will be sent out to the VS.

The Council Executive will be making decisions on the consultations in December and the final budget decision in February 2015.  The LA is looking at 15/16 and 16/17 together as the government’s cuts are more severe for the second year.  The decisions to be taken in the next year will be incredibly tough.  We need to have a dialogue about risk at all times and how to mitigate this.

The contents of the strategy was summarised and the board asked to note that the information supplied references 2013 data. However, because of the GCSE results this year, there may be more of a gap. 

• 89% children in Stockport attend good or better schools – 92% in primary; yet we have a serious attainment gap.
• Pupil premium cohort – Andy Kippax commented that there is a likelihood of a link with local areas and a possibility of working directly with housing providers.  AC to link with AK. 

Action plan: School Effectiveness team is in the process of setting up a one stop shop for the pupil premium cohort data across the borough.

AC noted that Young People’s workers do not monitor pupil premium/FSM.  To pick up as part of strategy.

CAMHS would like to link into this work.

Early Years:  Link with VP and JE to consider what can be done for joint working in the future ages 0-8.  Consider the school nurses link as well with PH. 

Action: ICS are rolling out multi team meetings from this week and will link up with AC. Job Centre Plus will be working with SfYP for NEETs.  All agencies concerned to link with AC to progress this work.

Early years: Viki Packman summarised highlights

Standard of early year’s provision continues to rise.  Childminders: now in line with national good figures of 75%.

Breast Feeding rates are high, but particularly low in Brinnington/Reddish/ - however there has been an improvement.

2 year old offer: steady increase in uptake and now up to 1274 children. 

Offerton group of children’s centres: inspection result was Required Improvement (RI) - specifically not enough families registered or engaged.  We have challenged this. Ofsted has now decided to stop using this measure.  We had good feedback and some good comments from which we will learn.

Early help

Tracking CAFs – 373 in first quarter of this year.

Referrals: to Children’s Social Care have decreased in comparison to this time last year.

First time entrance to YJ system continues to reduce.

Teenage conception continues to decrease.

Stockport homes are using CAFs and working jointly with the council.

Emotional and physical health: Duncan Weldrake

Obesity indicator: rate of increase seems to have levelled off.

Unintentional injury rates increased last year.  The rate is higher than the England average, but benchmarks well against AGMA, however, admissions for everything are high here so the link is being considered.

A report on unintentional injury is going to next CYP scrutiny.

The Family Nurse Partnership is now in place and taking referrals.

Commissioning of HV and FNP will become the LA responsibility from 2015.

Risk of schools not buying into Mosaic: ICS will be having a dialogue with schools to address this.

Education and skills: Phil Beswick

Schools continue to perform well both in comparison with the NW and nationally. 

Key stage 1 – improved; Key stage 2 increased in reading and writing but less in maths; key stage 4 – no validated data – but we know there is great fluctuation in the system.  Advisors are looking at the results with HTs and Principals to understand the effect on pupils and the curriculum. 

We will closely monitor NEETS over the next few weeks.

Young carers: The LA will be part of a national pathfinder to work with young carers and this will be launched over the next few weeks and we hope to share best practice in the future.

Ofsted revised framework; the LA will be working closely with schools to look at implications.

Staying safe: Jane Connolly

Child Protection plans: reduction in this quarter.  We can hypothesise, but we really need to look at over period of time to understand what is behind the reduction.

Reduction in Domestic Abuse referrals.

Running away from home and care: we believe the reporting in these services has improved and that this is possibly why we see an increase in prevalence.

Supporting Families pathway: well imbedded and Stockport officers went to parliament to carry out a  presentation  to Louise Casey.

Child poverty strategy for key areas:

Partnership working to support families subject to national welfare reforms.

Disabled people particularly suffering due to changes in claim processes.

NW universal credit trial in Stockport begins on 17^th November with single newly unemployed people. 

Action: Board to note report