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Strategies for Children and Young People Services
Understanding a confusing picture!

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So, what strategies are there?

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Why so many? How do they fit together? Questions, questions, questions…
Organisational
level
Building a Better
Bromley
Departmental
level
Portfolio Plans
Service level
Improvement,
Efficiency and
Effectiveness Plans
Individual level
PADS
Partnership level
- Health and Wellbeing Strategy
- Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
- Children’s Strategy

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Are there are common themes for them all?
Common vision
Common underpinning outcomes
Common priority areas

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Are there are common themes for them all? (cont’d)
Common vision:
 “Securing the best possible future for all children and young
people in the Borough, including a clear focus on supporting
the most vulnerable children and young people in our
community”

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Are there are common themes for them all? (cont’d)
 Common underpinning outcomes:
 Children and young people enjoy learning and achieve their full
potential
 Ensuring the health and wellbeing of children and young people,
and their families
 Children and young people are safe where they live, go to school,
play and work
 Children and young people behave positively, take responsibility
for their actions and feel safe within the Borough, and parents and
carers take responsibility for the behaviour of their children
 Young people get the best possible start in adult life

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Are there are common themes for them all? (cont’d)
 Common priority areas:
 emotional health and wellbeing
 children’s social care
 including children in care
 children with complex needs and disabilities
 including transition of young people with learning difficulties
and/or disabilities to Adult Services

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So, what’s changing?
 Health and Social Care Bill:
 Abolishing –
 Primary Care Trusts
 Strategic Health Authorities
 Transferring responsibility –
 Public Health to local authorities
 Creating –
 Clinical Commissioning Groups
 National Commissioning Board
 Health and Wellbeing Boards

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So, what’s changing? (cont’d)
 Other key changes:
 Academies Act 2010 and Education Act 2011
 Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Green Paper
 including Pathfinder Bid
 Review of Child Protection and Safeguarding
 Review of Family Justice System
 Welfare Reform Bill
 Review of Early Years Foundation Stage

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So, what’s this “Health and Wellbeing Board”?
The Health and Wellbeing Board for Bromley will:
 bring together the leaders of local health and care systems with local people, to
understand what local communities need and to develop the best strategies to meet
those needs
 work to join up services across the NHS, public health, social care and children’s
services
 take the lead on
 developing a shared understanding of local needs
 using Joint Strategic Needs Assessments
 setting the priorities and strategy for health and wellbeing in Bromley through…
…the Health and Wellbeing
Strategy for Bromley

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So, what’s this “Health and Wellbeing Strategy”?
The Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Bromley:
 is a statutory document aiming to respond to the health, social care and wellbeing
issues
 brings together those areas which impact on health and wellbeing into a single
co-ordinated framework
 guide the various agencies in Bromley as they tackle the major public health and
well-being challenges to
 improve the health of the population
 reduce health inequalities

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So, how do children and young people fit in?
 The Health and Wellbeing Strategy includes 3 priorities which are
particularly focused on children and young people:
 Increasing volumes and complexity of need
 children referred to Children’s Social Care
 children with mental and emotional health
problems
 children with complex needs and disabilities
Do you remember the common priority areas?

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So, what’s happening?
 The 3 priorities for children and young people have been written using:
 information from existing documents, such as:
 Children and Young People Portfolio Plan and Children's Strategy
 local needs assessments
 including the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment 2011
 Committee and Executive Working Party reports
 local service reports
 including the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Service Annual
Report 2010-11
 previous local and national reviews
 together with input from a number of Heads of Service and Service Managers
from the Council and our partners

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So, what’s happening? (cont’d)
 The priority sections include:
 what is the issue and what are the implications for Bromley?
 what are we currently doing and what do we intend to do?
 what are the gaps?
 what are the expected outcomes?
 how will we monitor and measure success?
 The draft Health and Wellbeing Strategy is being considered by the Health and
Wellbeing Board on 15 March
 will also be presented to the Bromley Children and Young People Partnership on
26 March

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Issues for the future
 Impact of further changes from government reform agenda
 Impact of Health and Social Care Act
 Impact of reductions in funding levels
 Impact of continuing rising demand – both numbers and complexity
 Impact of changes to local services and structures
 Impact of the unknown…

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Any questions…?

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Contact me
Michael Watts
Senior Partnerships and Planning Officer
@ michael.watts@bromley.gov.uk