Agenda item

Brendan Lee, Looked After Children and Leaving Care, LCC and Andreas Feldhaar, Permanence Service, LCC

 

To discuss the outcomes and what the Board will do next following on from the Corporate Parenting Board Development Session held on 27 February 2023.

 

Andreas Feldhaar, Permanence Service, Lancashire County Council presented to the Board the Priorities and Actions from the Corporate Parenting Board Development Session that was held on 27 February 2023.

 

The Board had previously received the feedback from the group work sessions and this item was to discuss that feedback in more detail, aligning with the four Corporate Parenting Board priorities.  The Board noted the following feedback received for the four priority groups from each group work session on 27 February 2023:

 

"What we want to do next and how?"

 

Corporate Parenting, Partnerships, Practice and Participation (Achieving Permanence)

 

·  Trusting relationships with children/young people; knowing the children and young people in your area

·  Big ideas, aspirations, thinking outside the box, approach different people, resolve barriers

·  Focus groups and workshops

·  Champions/ambassadors

·  Localised/district/divisional focus

·  Learning and development

·  consolidating and maintain good practice, consistency

·  reflect on/learn from our achievements

·  learning from research, learning from outstanding authorities

·  audit, scrutiny, case studies, success stories

·  identify what we need to do for outstanding

·  confident about statutory work

·  Workforce planning and development

·  Better understanding roles and responsibilities

·  Accountability, challenging and solution focused conversations

·  Use specialism of individual councillors eg bankers, builders, marketeers' farmers etc

·  Communication and governance

·  increase awareness, bitesize briefings for councillors

·  shared concerns across partners and shared strategic and delivery plans

·  Corporate Parenting Board interconnection eg with safeguarding partnership

·  Trauma Informed Practice across all partners

·  Children/young people centred; child focussed decisions

·  Creating opportunities for children and young people as for our own

·  Young people's participation, engagement, co-production

·  wider representation (age, background etc)

·  surveys, meetings etc

·  resources and infrastructure (eg app)

 

Lasting Homes

 

·  'Home' versus 'A Home'

·  Residential support and experience of residential care

·  Peer support for foster carers

·  Leaders to speak to Developers/Contracts

 

Health and Wellbeing

 

·  Lifelong links and lasting (family) relationships

·  Social opportunities

·  Mental health support

·  Health day

·  Health summaries/passports

 

Education, Employment and Training

 

·  Improve Education, Employment and Training offer 18+

·  Education and employment support at home and schools

·  Taster courses

·  Links with employers

·  More traineeships/apprenticeships

·  Lancashire County Council and partners in-house apprenticeships and employment

 

"What does success look like?"

 

Corporate Parenting, Partnerships, Practice and Participation (Achieving Permanence)

 

·  Effective partnerships

·  Trauma Informed Practice across all partners

·  LINX (Lancashire's Children in Care Council)/Care Leaver Forum membership

·  Children and young people's stories and feedback (achievement and valued)

·  Children and young people's level of involvement in shaping services

·  Champions/ambassadors

·  Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and soft outcomes; not a reminder of past/not deficit focused

·  Ofsted (criteria/judgement/outstanding)

 

Lasting Home

 

·  Every young person has the right home at the right time

·  Lasting homes

·  Thrive

 

Health and Wellbeing

 

·  Access to health services (eg GP, dentist, mental health etc)

·  Self-esteem

 

Education, Employment, Training

 

·  Improved outcomes

·  Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Education, Employment, Training

·  Number of care experienced apprentices in Lancashire County Council and Partners

 

Following the presentation, the Board were asked to consider in groups, the following three questions for each of the four priority areas:

 

·  Do we have the right membership to influence and shape service provisions under each of our four priority areas?

·  What information does the Board need from different services to influence and shape service provisions?

·  What information does the Board need from the different services to know our children and care leavers have received a high quality and effective service?

 

Feedback from the group work is appended to the minutes and further analysis will be undertaken.

 

Resolved:  That the Board noted the outcomes from the discussion and actions will take place following consultation of the feedback.