People's Plan Refreshed Children and Young 2021- 22 Living with and recovery from COVID -19 pandemic
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Refreshed Children and Young
People’s Plan
2021- 22
Living with and recovery from
COVID -19 pandemicOverview The plan is a refresh of the 2020 Children and Young People’s Plan The plan has been developed through: o Understanding the impact of the COVID -19 pandemic on children, young people and families, o Understanding the priority areas that needs to continue from the 2020 plan o Utilising the expertise of the different agencies in the Children’s Partnership who interact with Coventry children and families daily
Priority 1 Early Help
PRIORITIES KEY ISSUES STRATEGY
• Identifying the needs of children,
• Develop and implement the • Hidden harm –financial hardship
young people and their families
Early Help Assessment (EHA) exacerbated
across a continuum of need.
• Develop the Signs of Safety • Living in homes with increased
• Allocated specific resource
practice tension and conflict from children services to
• Develop and embed the Family • Increased domestic abuse maintain momentum on the Early
Hub Model, • Increased parental conflict Help strategy and
• Continue to implement the • Sexual abuse (contact and associated Transformation plan
Troubled Families online) • Family Hubs also extended
transformation programme. • Peer on peer bullying and abuse the ‘Here to help’ function.
• Implement Coventry’s multi- online • Developing multi-agency
agency Parenting Strategy • Possible unidentified partnerships to work together within
2018 – 2023. developmental needs the Family Hub community venues
• Develop the use of our Family • Gap widening in educational to extend the offer of preventative
Hub buildings. outcomes early intervention to improve
• Develop a new model for • “Behavioural issues” outcomes for children, young
mental health and emotional • During the pandemic, people and families for generations
wellbeing support. there remains concerns to come.
• Deliver effective public health regarding hidden harm, • Work collaboratively to
promotion and prevention and many children may not have support families preventatively and
activities. been identified early, that need at the earliest opportunity
support. refocusing resources from crisis
intervention to prevention.Priority 2: Mental Health
PRIORITIES KEY ISSUES STRATEGY
•.All children and young people • Increased numbers of children and • A Tier 3 Plus Child and Adolescent
will have timely access to mental young people requiring mental health Mental Health service has been
health support and emotional wellbeing support, implemented
•Everyone will be aware of what particularly around anxiety and •The re-commissioning of tier 2
mental health support is available behaviour. mental health services
for children in Coventry • Children and young people presenting •A trailblazer project health crisis line
•A digital offer of support will be needs are more complex, particularly offer
available for children and young children with eating disorders. •A Mental Health Surge working
people, including a 24/7 crisis • Higher risk of death by suicide within group has been set up to review
response children and young people. mental health referral data across a
•Pathway for care leavers and • Increased demand on children and number of services.
unaccompanied asylum seeking young people presenting at acute •Develop and mobilise the Think
children (UASC) to access settings for support, particularly around Family Support Team which
support. eating disorders. provides specific support to children
•Reduced number of children and • There has also been increased and young people with eating
young people will present at acute pressure on acute settings with disorders.
in crisis and those who will require children and young people presenting •Increase access to mental health
a tier 4 bed. in crisis, and the growing number of services.
•Strengthen approaches to crisis escalation calls taking place to •Expand the Mental Health in
resilience, early help and support acute discharge. Schools project.
prevention through partnership
workPriority 3: Health Inequalities
PRIORITIES KEY ISSUES STRATEGY
• Tackling inequalities • Increased risk of poverty particularly • Additional resources to expand the
disproportionately affecting young for children of families in lower socio- amount of safe accommodation for
people. economic groups and in areas of victims and families.
• Ensuring that all Coventry people, deprivation. • The Domestic Abuse Strategy
including vulnerable residents, • Increased risk of inequalities in 2018-2023 is midway through,
can benefit from ‘inclusive growth’ educational attainment due to however due to significant
which will bring jobs, housing and closure of schools. increase in demand for services it
other benefits to the city. • Risks to mental health through is being reviewed. Alongside
• To work strategically to reduce isolation. the Domestic Abuse Bill,
levels of poverty in Coventry, • Increased risk of witnessing or being which comes into force on April 1st,
including actions to address child a victim of domestic abuse. 2021.
poverty. • Digital exclusion – difficulty in • The Coventry Parenting Strategy
• Children and young people are accessing online learning. 2018-2023 is delivered by
safe, healthy and supported. • Fewer “eyes on” children which has organisations and partners
• Earlier intervention and a highlighted enhanced joint work working together, to increase the
reduction in management of between drug / alcohol services and parenting support offer to families
victims / families in crisis. children’s services in respect of across the city.
• Support for children witnessing or hidden harm of parental drug and • Coventry’s Family Health and
being victim of domestic abuse. alcohol misuse. Lifestyles 0-19 service will
• Parents get access to mental focus on reducing health
health support at the right time. inequalities.Priority 4: Education, training and
employment
PRIORITIES KEY ISSUES STRATEGY
• Managing COVID-19 protective • Keeping vulnerable children and young • There has been national funding
measures in Early Years settings, people safe and enabling them to allocated to schools to identify and
and in Schools and Further continue to engage with learning. support gaps in pupil’s learning as a
Education sites (including LFT). • Potential health impacts – as a result of result of the pandemic.
• Developing children and young less activity, social isolation • Supporting vulnerable pupils outside
people’s emotional resilience and and increased screen time. of term-time, including the launch of
support a successful return to • Curriculum plans and delivery has had a holiday activities fund programme.
learning from remote learning. to be adjusted to enable remote • Joining up offers of support from
• Identifying gaps in learning for all delivery. variety of agencies/charities etc.
pupils and ensuring progress in • Early Years - day to day work has Including a more comprehensive
Education and Learning to narrow focussed on responding to the food network and social
this. pandemic, through provision of a range supermarkets to ensure children can
• Minimise and prevent pupils of advice, support, training and access food.
being excluded. documentation provided to the Early • Tracking of all post-16 young people
• Tracking and supporting the Years sector. has continued and will continue
participation of 16-18-year • Local and national research indicates throughout the pandemic.
olds into education, employment that a greater number of children are • Employment support
or training. less secure in a developmental stage provision/funding to be rolled out
• Decreasing numbers of young appropriate to their chronological age, until 2023 to provide young people
people who are unemployed to than was seen before the Covid-19 with holistic, person centred 1 to 1
pre-pandemic levels pandemic. employment and training support.Priority 5: Children with (SEND)
PRIORITIES KEY ISSUES STRATEGY
•Statutory requirement • Re-engaging and re-socialising • Blended model of service delivery,
‘business as usual’ – secured vulnerable learners particularly embracing efficiencies
through a blended model of ASC
virtual and face to face service. • Unknown demand – early years • Focused priorities on delivering
specific bespoke responses to individual
Covid specific: schools and children
• Strengthening safeguarding • Parental confidence in system
and support for emotional safety for CV and CEV, links to • Continuing investment in the
health and well-being national increase in EHE recovery curriculum including the
• Enabling re-engagement and provision of training for school and
attendance for complex • Mental health and well-being of all college senior mental health leads
learners SEND learners
• Promoting confidence in • Ongoing promotion and
pathways to adulthood, to • Lost skills and the widening of development of supported
secure positive outcomes the achievement gap for children employment pathways
and regenerate system flow with lower cognitive functioning
• Securing a sufficiency of • Ongoing co-production with
placements against rising • Fewer SEND learners moving parents, carers and young people
demand and financial into employment pathways, to design responses to unmet
limitation leading to a loss of opportunity need and evaluate impact
and placement blockingPriority 6: Youth Violence
PRIORITIES KEY ISSUES STRATEGY
• A reduction in violence for those • Knife crime and serious youth • A 10-year violence
under 25 years of age. violence are a significant concern. prevention strategy in place.
• Children and young people having a • A number of high-profile murder The local strategy mirror’s
better understanding and awareness trials concluded in 2020 all involving the regional violence
of the dangers of crime, exploitation, children from Coventry. reduction unit strategy and
county lines and gang activity. • Young people from Coventry are runs until 2029.
• Parents and young people involved coming to the attention of • Work with under 4’s has
in or victims of crime and/or anti- neighbouring police forces, often continued, and many
social behaviour is reduced. being picked up in possessions of activities went “online.”
• Policing resources which target gang drugs. • Place-based approaches
activity linked to wider intelligence • In 2019/20 children in Coventry were focus on building a local
from partner organisations. convicted of 91 Violence Against the network of providers and
• The Local Authority and Police Person/Robbery offences and this community members to
Prevent Plans are also in sync, with made up 27% of all convicted support local people to reject
the violence/gang’s strategies/plans. offending behaviour by children in violence and support each
• Coordinated multi-agency Coventry. other.
management of children and adults • During government restrictions those
involved in serious youth violence that seek to exploit young people
and gang-based violence. have taken their activity on-line and
use social media platforms to groom
children, drawing them into criminal
behaviour.Governance Key sponsor and leads have been identified for each of the six priority areas. Workstream Sponsor Strategic Lead Early Help John Gregg Rebecca Wilshire Mental health Matt Gilks TBC Health inequalities Liz Gaulton Sue Frossell Education, learning & training Kirston Nelson Rachel Sugars/Kim Mawby Children with SEND Kirston Nelson Jeanette Essex Youth violence Mike O’ Hara Caroline Ryder
Recommendations • CYP Board to sign off the revised 2021/22 plan. •To request the CYP Partnership board report to the HWB board on a quarterly basis.
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