Children's Services Directorate Directorate Plan 2020/21
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Children’s Services
Directorate
Directorate Plan 2020/21Introduction
This directorate plan outlines the action the Children’s Services Directorate will take over the coming year, to support the Council’s long
term vision and strategic priorities. Our work will have due regard for equality and diversity.
Borough Vision
‘Grow our economy and develop our borough through co-operation and partnership,
improving the lives of local people and communities.’
Strategic priorities
People Place Prosperity Performance
Equality and Diversity
The Public Sector Equality Duty 2011 places a legal requirement on the Council to demonstrate that it considers the needs of all individuals
in its day to day work and has due regard for the need to eliminate discrimination, advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations.The Rochdale Way
The Rochdale Way sets out the values that are at the heart of how we approach all of the work we do. To help us make these values real
we have adopted a set of behaviours that every member of staff must demonstrate as well as two specific leadership behaviours.
Valuing
our Positive attitude Developing myself Improving things
people
Using time
Focusing & money
on wisely
customer
Communicating Achieving shared
Achieving my goals
effectively goals
Acting Working
with together
integrity
Empowering &
Always
Meeting customer Encouraging Supporting
learning &
needs colleagues Managing
improving
PerformanceEnabling Work Programmes The Council is facing significant financial challenges, which means that we have reduced capacity to deliver services. We will adopt working practices that will improve our capacity to deliver, facilitate ongoing service delivery and support us in achieving our priorities, including: Working across organisational boundaries Sharing budgets Sharing services with other public sector bodies Developing a culture of social responsibility Encouraging and supporting volunteering Looking for ways to save money Looking at new models of service delivery Making better use of data and intelligence Streamlining decision making Managing our money
Directorate Structure
The management structure of the directorate is detailed below:
Gail Hopper
Director, Children’s
Services
Bev Paris Steve Kay Julia Hassall Susan Thomas
Head of Practice Assistant Director, Assistant Director, Head of the
Improvement Early Help & Schools Children’s Social Care Safeguarding UnitDirectorate functions and services The Directorate has responsibility for a range of service areas and activities. Service Head of Service Children with Disabilities and Special Michael Kemp Educational Needs Schools and School Improvement Gillian Barratt Early Years & Early Help Amanda Highland-Partington Youth Service Diane Higgins School Organisation and Planning Debra Kay First Response and Complex Tracy Chatterton (Acting) Safeguarding Child Protection and Care Proceedings Pamela Wharton and Emergency Duty (EDT) Provider Services Ian Godfrey Cared 4 Children, Youth Justice Sharon Hawkins (Acting) Service Safeguarding Unit Susan Thomas Practice Improvement Bev Paris No Wrong Door Project Lead Ann Tully Lead Cabinet Members Cabinet members with relevant portfolio holder responsibilities oversee Council Directorates Cllr Kieran Heakin – Cabinet Member for Children’s Services Cllr Rachael Massey – Assistant Lead Member for Children
Directorate Responsibilities
The Directorate has the following responsibilities:
Leadership, strategic development and effectiveness of local authority children’s services
Effective commissioning of services that meet the needs of all children and young people including the most disadvantaged and
vulnerable children and their families
Working closely with partner agencies to improve the health and wellbeing of children and young people
Ensure the safeguarding and welfare of children through clear and effective arrangements to protect children and young people from
harm – through an effective Local Children’s Safeguarding Partnership and effective service delivery
Shared responsibility with officers and members of the Local Authority as effective and caring corporate parents for cared for children
and care leavers with key roles to improve their educational attainment, provide stable and high quality placements and solid planning
for when they leave care
Promote the interests of all children and young people parents and families and work with local communities to stimulate and support
a diversity of school, early years and 16-19 provision that meets local needs
Ensure that there are enough school places to meet demand
Ensure fair access to schools in accordance with School Admissions and Appeal codes
Provide suitable home to school transport arrangements where necessary
Promote a diverse supply of strong schools, encouraging good schools to expand where there is a need for additional school places
Promote high quality early years provision, help develop the market, securing free early education for three and four year olds and for
disadvantaged two year olds, providing information, advice and assistance to parents and ensuring that there are sufficient Sure Start
children’s centre services to meet local need and sufficient childcare for working parents
Provide Early Help Services/support to children and families at the earliest opportunity to improve outcomes
Secure access to sufficient education and recreational leisure time activities and facilities for young people to support their well-being
and personal and social development
Promote children and young people’s engagement in public decision making so that they can influence local commissioning
Promote participation in education or training of young people, including 16-19 year olds (or 25 for those with learning difficulties/
disabilities)
Ensure that disabled children and those with special educational needs (SEND) access high quality provision to meet their needs
Ensure that Education, Health and Care Plans for children with SEND are person centred, fully identify their needs and are produced
in a timely manner.
Secure alternative provision for children outside mainstream education or missing education to receive suitable full time education
Ensure coherent planning between all agencies providing services for children involved in the youth justice system to ensure their
health, education and safeguarding needs are met
Secure services that meet local need, recognising the benefits of prevention and early intervention and where possible integrate with
other agencies to offer early help to children, young people and families
Provide challenge and support to schools to ensure we improve pupils achievement at all stages.Connected Strategies The directorate works in accordance with the following strategies and plans: Rochdale Locality Plan Children and Young Peoples Partnership Plan Rochdale Borough Safeguarding Children Partnership Plan Community Safety Partnership Strategy Early Help Strategy Readiness for School Strategy School Improvement Strategy Integrated Commissioning Strategy SEND Improvement Strategy Corporate Parenting Strategy Domestic Abuse Strategy Neglect Strategy Youth Offending Service Plan Sufficiency Strategies for Early Years and Children’s Placements Child Adolescent Mental Health Transformation Plan Ofsted Improvement Plan Relationships Manifesto
Directorate Actions
The table outlines the action that will be taken over the coming year, to support improvement and our direction of travel. It highlights the work
that must be undertaken to support the action. Business as usual activities are not included.
Section 1 - Early Help and Schools
Ref Directorate Action Action Work Work due Work Strategic Enabling
Action owner completion date requirements date owner Priority work
programme
NDP1 CYPP Priority 3 – Steve March 2020 Embed Gillian Performance Working
Children and Kay Communication and March 2021 Barratt across
young people in Language strategy organisatio
within the 50
our Borough will nal
settings by;
aspire and Revisiting training boundaries
achieve through Monitoring
education implementation and
impact
Implement the
School
Improvement Extend the EYFS
Strategy to CLL strategy to the
improve pupil remaining 18
achievement at primary settings and
into year 1 classes
all key stages
Implement EYFS /
July 2021
Year 1 support and
challenge
conversations
To develop Year 10
and catch-up strategyTo strengthen the
support and challenge December
to under-performing 2020
secondary settings by
ensuring: Robust data
conversations
Deployment of School
Improvement Partners October 2020
Establishing bespoke
support plans.
Complete SEND Peer December
Reviews in all 2020 (is this
secondary schools to too early – I
ensure that the think this has
teaching is well-
to happen on
matched to the needs
of SEN support pupils the return in
to enable improved September)
progress through key
stage 3 and 4
To ensure all primary
schools have March 2021
participated within a
SEND peer review or a
SEND audit of practice
focusing on pupils’
emotional mental health
of pupils
Work with schools and
partners to implement July 2021
the recommendations
from the Inclusion
StrategyTo work with schools
to determine March 2021
intervention and
catch-up strategies to
minimise the impact of
Covid19 on
educational outcomes
NDP2 CYPP Priority 3 – Steve March 2021 Review of the March 2021 Debra Kay Place / Looking at
Children and Kay availability of primary Performanc new models
young people in and secondary e of service
school places and
our Borough will delivery.
negotiation of
aspire additional places
and achieve with schools and DfE
through education for 2021.
Support the delivery
Provide of two secondary Free Commencing
sufficient Schools which are 2020 for
school places required in the delivery 2020
Borough for 2021 and
for all children to 2023
2022 respectively, the
within the Council has approved
Borough release of sites for
these.
Commence the March 2021
development of 75 and beyond
place Free Special
School (ASC) with DfE
and New Bridge Trust.Design a Family September Amanda People Looking at
NDP3 CYPP – Priority 2 Steve March 2021 Offer to be delivered 2020 Highland- / Place new models
Children and Kay across localities Partington of service
young people in following the review delivery
our Borough will of Early Help and March
live Early Years Services 2021
longer and with that when (first
better health and implemented will stage of
wellbeing. deliver relational and delivery)
integrated early help,
parenting and school
readiness.
Re-designate with
Dfe all Children’s January
Centre reach areas 2021
and undertake
deferred clawback
Realign early agreement process
help, relational to ensure service
and school buildings are co-
readiness terminus with
services on an localities and the new
integrated service.
locality footprint
to ensure Youth Service to
effective complete community January Diane
mainstreaming profiles/needs 2021 Higgins
of the Family analysis based on
Service Model. young people’s
needs in the
community
Improved
communication of January Diane
alternative curriculum 2021 Higgins
programmes offer to
school to extend high
quality youth
provision.NDP4 CYPP Priority 3 – Steve March 2021 Write jointly September Michael People / Working
Children and Kay and implement 2020 Kemp place / across
young people in next 5 year performanc organisatio
our Borough will SEND e nal
aspire and Strategy, boundaries
achieve through
education Increase the
affective use December
Continued of SEND 2020
implementation Support Plans
and embedding to embed the
of the SEND graduated
(Special response to
Educational reduce
Needs/ need/depende
Disabilities) ncy on EHCP.
reforms
Develop
capacity in January
Rochdale to 2021
meet
Education
needs to
reduce need to
seek external
provision
Re-design the
formulation of November
EHCPlans with 2020
Health, Care and
Education to ensure
that the plans are
affective and acted
upon.Implement a Joint
Health/Social Care September
and Education 2020
Quality assurance
EHCP framework.
Introduce the role of
Dedicated Social December
Care (EHC) officer 2020
(in line with the
DMO/DCO role).
Extend the current
unassessed short October 2020
break offer to
increase impact.
To implement
support plan writing October 2020
across with social
care.
Implement the
Preparing for December
adulthood agenda 2020
across agencies.
NDP5 CYPP Priority 3 – Steve March 2021 Digitisation of Early Amanda Place / Working
Children and Kay Years assessments March 2021 Highland- Performanc across
young people in through the GM Early Partington e organisationa
our Borough will Years App in l boundaries /
aspire and partnership with Making better
achieve through Northern Care use
education Alliance and in line of data
with the GM and
digitisation strategy. intellige
nceImprove the Review and update Amanda People quality and service strategy to July 2020 Highland- integration of age ensure childcare Partington related sufficiency in assessments, response to covid. and ensure Increased childcare continued brokerage; sufficient communication with childcare across childcare providers; the borough implement a flexible following the funding approach impact of Covid 19.
Section 2 - Directorate Wide
NDP6 CYPP – Priority 1 Gail March 2021 Provide more Bev Paris People / Making better
Children and Hopper development March 2021 / Heads place / use of data
young people in opportunities for of performanc and
our Borough will employees from black Service e intelligence
be kept safe from and minority ethnic
harm communities.
Workforce Implement the
stability is recruitment and March 2021 Heads of
maintained and retention strategy to Service
strengthened reduce the number of
children who
experience a change
in social worker
Establish mechanisms
to ensure that staff at March 2021 Bev Paris
every level in the / Heads
organisation influence of
strategy and practice Service
standards.Section 3 Children’s Social Care
NDP7 CYPP – Priority 1 Julia March 2021 Build and December Tracy People Working
Children and Hassall develop the 2020 Chatterton / place across
young people in locality based / organisationa
our Borough will social work offer. perfor l boundaries /
be kept safe from mance making better
harm Further develop No March 2021 Ian use of data
Wrong Door / ACT Godfrey / and
Safely stabilise to: Tracy intelligence
and reduce the Chatterto
number of Support children n/ Looking at
children in need edging towards care Rozanne new models
of protection and to live successfully in Stevens of service
children cared for the community delivery
through Support children in
embedding care to live in family
innovative placements Promote
approaches the safeguarding of
adolescents,
enabling them to
have security in their
care.
Implement the September Michelle
Strengthening 2020 Rhodes
Families (NEST)
programme
Embed our relational March 2021 Heads of
practice model to service
manage risk and
uncertaintyEmbed the Family
Services Model to January 2021 Michelle
identify and respond Rhodes /
to neglect at the Amanda
earliest stage in Highland –
families Partington
Implement a service January 2021 Sue Thomas
wide engagement
strategy for young
people, parents and
carers
Implement and January 2021 Mike Blower
embed the Child
First Offender
Second Strategy
(incorporating the
Youth Violence
Strategy and HMIP
inspection action
plan)
NDP8 CYPP – Priority 1 Julia March 2021 Implement the March 2021 Ian People / Working
Children and Hassall sufficiency strategy Godfrey performance across
young people in organisational
our Borough will Implement Project boundaries /
making better
be kept safe from fostering to restore
use of data /
harm in-house fostering intelligence
services to a
Secure position of growth. In
permanence for particular
more children, implement:
ensuring thereare sufficient - Mocking Bird
local placements - PACE practice
and choice where model
children need to - Secure Base
be cared for / - Supported lodgings
adopted provision
Implement the December Ian Godfrey /
Permanence 2020 Mike Blower
Strategy 2019/20
Review and embed
the functions of the October Mike Blower
Post Order & 2020
Permanence Team
to achieve success
for children living
with their family in
the community.
NDP9 CYPP – Priority 1 Julia March 2021 Revise and review December Sue People / Working
Children and Hassall the Rochdale 2020 Thomas place / across
young people in Safeguarding performance organisational
our Borough will Children Partnership boundaries
be kept safe from infrastructure in
harm order to embed
relational practice
Children’s across the
Services lead partnership
proactive
relational Implement a
practice within Contextual March 2021 Tracy
partnership Safeguarding Chatterton
arrangements approach to / Rozanne
understand and Stevens
respond to young
people’s experiences
of significant harm
beyond their families.Support Adult Services to implement a March 2021 Tracy transitional Chatterton/ safeguarding response, Rozanne providing support and Stevens safeguarding beyond 18 years.
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