Children’s Services Every Child Matters By Meena Kishinani Head of Children’s Policy and Trust Commissioning
ROGER LUXTON Corporate Director of Children’s Services TOLIS VOUYIOUKAS JANE HARGREAVES CHRISTINE PRYOR MEENA KISHINANI ANNA HARSKAMP Divisional Director Head of Quality Head of Shared Head of Children’s Head of Pupil & Safeguarding & School Services Policy & Trust Family Support & Rights Improvement & Engagement Commissioning
Universal Services • Development of children centres • Early Years and Child Care provision • Extended schools • Inspection and Advisory Service • Asset management • Admissions
Targeted Services • Access and Attendance • Educational Psychology • Youth Service • Family and Targeted Support • Special Educational Needs
Specialist Services • Care Management and Assessment • Looked After Children • Child Protection • Preventive Strategy • Disabled Children
Support Services • Performance Management • Pupil and Student Services • Policy and Planning • School Support • Commissioning and Contracting • Development of the Children’s Trust
Bottom quartile BV performance indicators 2005/06 (2006/07 year to date figure as at end of quarter 1) Barking and Dagenham PI Ref. Description Quartile/ Quartile/ 06/07 year Actual 2005/06 banding banding to date 2005/6* 2006/07* BV43a Percentage of statements of special educational need � � issued by the authority in a financial year and prepared 91.7% 96.67% within 18 weeks: excluding 'exceptions' under the Education (SEN) Regulations 2001 BV46 Percentage of half days missed due to total absence in � � primary schools maintained by the local education 6.56% 6.81% authority BV50 (PAF Percentage of young people leaving care aged 16 or � � CF/A2) over with at least one GCSE at grade A*-G or a GNVQ 45.45% 47.10% BV161 Percentage of young people who were looked after on (PAF the 1 April of the 17th year (aged 16), who were � � CF/A4) engaged in EET at the age of 19 to the percentage of 0.54 0.82 young people in the population who were engaged in EET at the age of 19 BV197 Percentage change in number of conceptions amongst � 15-17 year old female population compared with 31.50% n/a n/a baseline year of 1998 (54.6%) BV181b Percentage of 14-year old pupils in schools maintained � � by the local education authority achieving Level 5 or 65.85% 69.7 above in the Key Stage 3 test in Mathematics BV194a The percentage of 11 year old pupils achieving Level 5 � � in Key Stage 2 English 19.5% 23.37% BV194b The percentage of 11 year old pupils achieving Level 5 � � in Key Stage 2 Maths 22.9% 25.59%
Children's Services, Safeguarding & Rights Performance Improvement - Average PAF Indicator Score 4 3.5 3 2.5 Average Score - Bands 2 1.5 1 0.5 0 2000/01 2001/02 2002/03 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 Year
Examples of Children’s Social Care PIs • Children looked after who move 3 or more times in one year • Children leaving care achieving 1+ GCSE • Review of Child Protection cases • Health of Looked After Children • Children adopted • Assessments completed on time
% of pupils achieving 5+ A*-C grades at GCSE in Barking & Dagenham 1992-2006 60.0% 50.0% 40.0% 30.0% 20.0% 10.0% 0.0% 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 15.8% 19.5% 27.6% 27.6% 27.1% 30.9% 31.3% 34.0% 38.3% 38.2% 42.4% 49.3% 46.3% 50.8% 55.8% Borough average 34.9% 41.1% 43.3% 43.5% 44.5% 45.1% 46.3% 47.9% 49.2% 50.0% 51.6% 52.9% 53.7% 57.1% England average
% of pupils achieving 5+ A*-G grades at GCSE in Barking & Dagenham 1992-2006 95.0% 90.0% 85.0% 80.0% 75.0% 70.0% 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 78.8% 81.6% 79.4% 79.7% 84.6% 84.5% 88.1% 91.6% 90.6% 88.8% 90.5% 88.0% 90.8% 90.3% Borough average 84.3% 85.6% 85.7% 86.1% 86.4% 87.5% 88.5% 88.9% 88.9% 88.9% 88.8% 88.8% 90.2% England average
2005/6 Annual Performance Assessment Key strengths: • Integrated Children’s Service • Workforce Development • Knowledge of our strengths & weaknesses • Targeting of resources • Good Partnership working • Strong commitment to children and young people across the Council
APA – Areas for Improvement • Reduce teenage conceptions • Improve children’s mental health services • Improve services to disabled children • Local placements for looked after children • Improving attendance at school • Reduce the number of NEETs • Improve standards of attainment in school sixth forms
Complaints • Learning from complaints • Governed by legislation - Children’s Act 1989 - DfES Complaints Process - Corporate Complaints Procedure
Complaints Statistics • 83 Stage one complaints received – 20 were either upheld or partly upheld – 63 not upheld • 2 Stage two complaints • 0 Stage three complaints • 55 compliments • Stage 1 complaints resolved 98% • Increase in number of children complaining
Engagement • Listening to the voice of children • Appointment of Group Manager Engagement • Need to ensure the voice of children and their parents are evident in all our decision making
Regulation JAR – Joint Area Review March 2007 ------------------------------ • Children’s Services are regulated by: - CSCI (Commission of Social Care Inspection) - OFSTED (Office for Standards in Education) - Audit Commission
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