Disabled Children and Adults Pathfinder Every Deaf Child
Disabled Children and Adults Pathfinder Every Deaf Child Matters Conference 26 th June 2012
Aims of the DCA Review • Make things better for the people who use our services and enable them to have more choice of and control over the support they want. • Enabling people to live the life they choose, and building resilient and supportive communities • Ensure that the Council works efficiently by focussing on better outcomes, prevents the escalation of need, reduces duplication and improves its decision making.
Initial Work • Focus on understanding what our current services look like and what customers experience and what they want from us in the future. • Engaged with 150 staff across Children’s, Adults and Health services • Met with many parent carers and children and young people to understand their views • Collected over 1800 needs statements from which we developed 8 key things that customers want from the new service design – design principles
Support and Aspiration: A new approach to SEN and Disability (The Green Paper) § Summary vision - to put in place a radically different system to • better support life outcomes • give parents confidence by giving them more control, and • transfer power to professionals on the front line and to local communities.
Merging the DCA with the Pathfinder • 8 Design Principles which emerged from DCA review • Avoiding the issues identified during the early stage of the DCA review • silo working, delays in approval, inflexible budgets, etc • Green Paper direction of travel • Personal budgets, partnerships, early intervention, single assessment process and plan etc • Delivery vehicle • An integrated service that brings together elements of children and adult social care, education and some targeted services to support children and young people with disabilities and special educational needs aged 0 to 25 years
Where are we now? Levels of engagement – 48 designers involved across Local Authority, Health, Voluntary and Community Service and Parent Carers – Information from workshops is shared on our e-forum. • The designers have produced an agreed ‘service’ purpose, key operating principles, high level customer pathway and a conceptual model. Service Purpose The 0 – 25 ‘Service’ is for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities, and their families, who require support, to be included in their community.
Key operating principles • Enabling and inclusive : wherever and whenever possible services should be provided at mainstream universal level. • Person centred : Child and young person must always be at the centre of what we do • Single assessment process and plan : better co-ordination – Outcome focussed – Clear and transparent • Timely services : what is needed, when its needed, especially during transitions • Safeguarding : protecting the rights of child and young person to be kept safe and secure • Excellent communication and information: good quality, timely, clear, easy to read.
What makes the new service different? • Integration – addresses silo working • Single assessment process and plan – will improve the customer experience • Person centred planning and approach – consistent approach for the customer • Outcome focussed work – look at what people want to do to improve the quality of their life • Holistic planning – eligible children and young people have holistic life plans that are reviewed and amended • Personalisation- offer of personal budgets, personalisation agenda. • New framework for model of support- prevention and “upstreaming” • Flexible budgets-opportunity to pool/align budgets • Local offer- support in Wiltshire and from whom.
Workstreams include: • Developing the new 0 -25 “service” • Personal Budget pilot • Single assessment process and single plan pilot • Local Offer
Keep up to date with our progress E-forum https: //wiltshiredcapathfinder. org. uk/home Wiltshire Council website http: //www. wiltshire. gov. uk/healthandsocialcar e/transformingserviceschildrenadults. htm
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