Integrated Services

A Children'sTrust arrangement is the bringing together of all agencies who work with children and young people to provide an intergrated service for children and young people and their families. The government module for intergrated services is shown below.

Intergrated Services Diagram - The Onion

 

Integrated front line delivery

  • More integrated, accessible services built around the needs of children and young people.
  • Shift to prevention and improved safeguarding.
  • Services co-located in children's centres and extended schools.
  • Workforce reform to ensure sufficient, suitably trained staff.
  • Development of multi-disciplinary teams and lead professionals.

Integrated processes

  • Develop a common assessment framework so that children are assessed once rather than being passed from agency to agency.
  • Better information sharing between professionals.
  • Local processes and procedures re-engineered to support integration around the needs of children.

Integrated strategy

  • Joint assessment of local needs involving children, young people and parents.
  • Single plan shared between all children's services reflecting national and local priorities for improved outcomes.
  • Joint commissioning of services on area-wide and local levels.
  • Pooling of budgets to support joint commissioning of services.

Inter-agency Governance

  • Robust inter-agency governance and accountability.
  • Local authority EDCS establishes and leads co-operation arrangements with partners.
  • Partners including public, private, voluntary and community organisations.
  • Local Safeguarding Children's Board replaces Area Child Protection Committee.

The team leading the development of the Change4Children Partnership in North East Lincolnshire is based within the Local Authority's Children's Services, the chair of the Board is Andy Samson, Executive Director for Children's Services  and the Head of the Children's Trust Development is Elaine Kitchen.

For further information about the work to develop a Children's Trust, please contact Elaine Kitchen on 01472 326906 or by e-mail on Elaine.Kitchen@nelincs.gov.uk