Agenda and minutes

Apologies were received on behalf of the following members:

Jean Croot

Dr Ita O’Donovan

Councillor Emma Jones

Margaret Sumner

Sean Walker

Mary Vine Morris – represented by YOLADE BURGESS

Claire Panniker – represented by fellow member MARIA COLLINS

Stanley Hui

The Chair will consider the admission of any late items of urgent business.  (Late items will be considered under the agenda item where they appear.  New items will be dealt with at Item 14 below).

None

Members must declare any personal and/or pecuniary interests with respect to agenda items and must not take part in any decision required with respect to these items. 

None

To approve the minutes of the Haringey Children & Young People’s Strategic Partnership Board meeting held on 11 September 2006 (attached).  

RESOLVED:

That the minutes of the last meeting of the HSP on 11 September 2006 be agreed and signed by the Chair subject to changes at sections 6 and 10 of the minutes.

Report of the Haringey Chief Executive’s Policy, Partnership and Consultation Team. 

The Board agreed to consider this item at its next meeting on the 26 January 2006. Members of the Board were encouraged however to contribute to the ongoing consultation by clicking online to: www.haringey.gov.uk/hsp

Report of the Director of Children & Young People’s Service.

The Board received copy of the Joint Area Review results which outlined some of the outcomes from the inspections had recently taken place. On the whole the inspections was positive with two areas of concerns, namely Staying safe, and  Achieving economic well-being which were of an “adequate” level. The Board heard that an Action Plan had been drawn up to highlight the areas for development which would see improvements made over the coming year.

In respect of the Youth Service JAR, the Board heard that a number of concerns had been highlighted and that major improvements were needed within the Service. These including services for victims and restorative justice where the need for expanded support structures and linkage to Victim Support. An Action Plan to see though the necessary improvements had also been developed in response to the review and the Board heard that progress of this would be monitored by way of exception reporting to the Board at three-monthly intervals. The Board also heard that an officers’ group and the Member Working Group on Children and Young People’s Service would be would be monitoring progress and that Government Office for London (GOL) would also have an input to monitoring over the one-year turn-around period that had been set. The Board however noted that the direction of travel was pleasing.

RESOVLED:

That the Board receive three-monthly exceptions reports on the progress of the Youth Service Action Plan.

Report of the Head of Community Safety & the Director of Children & Young People’s Service.

The Board received copy of the Joint Area Review results which outlined some of the outcomes from the inspections had recently taken place. On the whole the inspections was positive with two areas of concerns, namely Staying safe, and  Achieving economic well-being which were of an “adequate” level. The Board heard that an Action Plan had been drawn up to highlight the areas for development which would see improvements made over the coming year.

In respect of the Youth Service JAR, the Board heard that a number of concerns had been highlighted and that major improvements were needed within the Service. These including services for victims and restorative justice where the need for expanded support structures and linkage to Victim Support. An Action Plan to see though the necessary improvements had also been developed in response to the review and the Board heard that progress of this would be monitored by way of exception reporting to the Board at three-monthly intervals. The Board also heard that an officers’ group and the Member Working Group on Children and Young People’s Service would be would be monitoring progress and that Government Office for London (GOL) would also have an input to monitoring over the one-year turn-around period that had been set. The Board however noted that the direction of travel was pleasing.

RESOVLED:

That the Board receive three-monthly exceptions reports on the progress of the Youth Service Action Plan.

Report of the Director of Children & Young People’s Service.

The Board had received a forward plan for Changing Lives and Board members were invited to submit report commissioning requests for future meetings of the Board that would highlight in detail some of the work being undertaken as part of Every Child Matters agenda.

The Board received a summary of the key performance indicators to date and focussed on where a “red light” had been given to an indicator – infant mortality, NEETS and certain core assessment cohorts. The Board heard that the revised plan would be in place by January 2007 on the infant mortality indicator. In terms of the presentation of the performance indicators, the Board agreed that future reports would contain a summary and a fuller explanation, along with an arrow system to indicate whether an indicator was improving or deteriorating.

RESOLVED:

That colour indicators and direction of improvement arrows be included in all future performance reports. Further that a report on Core Assessments and Key Stage 3 be brought to the next meeting of the Board.

Report of the Director of Children & Young People’s Service and the PCT (attached).

The Board was urged to take control of the forward planning in terms of CAMHS and some of the priorities were identified to Board members as outlined in the report before the Board, which would be overseen by the CAMHS Partnership Group. The Board heard concerns about adolescences and the overstretched teams that are seeking to achieve pro-active, rather than re-active services. The Partnership Group had set a vision and a standard for services to be achieved. There was a discussion about the ADHD Forum and the prevention methods available and the progress being made on the drawing up of a pathway to accessing these treatment methods. The Learning and Skills Council welcomed the ADHD Forum’s support for its colleges. The Board heard that care would need to be taken in terms of clarity and effectiveness of the outcome indicators used when assessing the impact of mental health treatment methods. The Board agreed that in future, high-level indicators for outcomes were needed which also highlighted the spatial/geographical patterns.

RESOLVED

To circulate for information the CAMHS outcome indicators.

Report from Connexions at request of CYPSP Chair at last meeting.

The Board was given a background to the NEETS Strategy and how NEETS is calculated. The Board was informed that the NEETS Strategy for Haringey was developed in order to me meet public service agreement targets. The Board also heard that historical data on NEETS was problematic and had often highlighted increases in the NEETS figures. The Board discussed issues around defining who fell within the NEETS categorisations and the demographics of this. The Board were introduced to the Critical Success Indicators (CSI) as explained within the report before the Board which would be used for assessing which targets had been met whilst also highlighting the barriers to success and the solutions. The CSIs would also encourage partner agencies to align their work by way of business planning. The Board was urged to consider how to manage the dissolution of Connexions – and agreed to ensure that partners met to discuss this at both management and operational levels to ensure targets continue to be met post-Connexion.

RESOLVED

That a NEETS Task Group to established to produce key actions for the way forward in NEETS targets achievements and report back to the Board in January 2007.

Report of the Haringey Chief Executive’s Policy, Partnership and Consultation Team.

The Board was informed of the small sub-group of the Board which was considering the main elements of the Children and Young People’s Block of the LAA and the funding streams that would support these. The Board were given an explanation of the funding elements of the LAA in terms of the differences between pump priming monies and rewards.

RESOLVED

The Board requested that funding streams be looked at with a view of matching them to targets, and that time scales be added to each of the targets.

·     22 January 2007 at 6:30pm

·     12 March 2007 at 6:30pm

·     14 May 2007 at 6.30pm

The following dates for future meetings of the CYPSPB were confirmed as follows:

·                    22 January 2007, 6:30pm

·                    12 March 2007, 6:30pm

·                    14 May 2007, 6:30pm

To consider any new items admitted under Item 2 above.

None.

Partners should submit proposed agenda items for the next meeting (22 January 2007) to Nicolas Mattis (nicolas.mattis@haringey.gov.uk) no later than 18 December 2006.

Partners wishing to put forward items for a future agenda are asked to contact Nicolas Mattis, Principal Committee Co-ordinator at: nicolas.mattis@haringey.gov.uk