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/ Headlines / Progress / Problems / Issues01 / Anti-Bullying /
- Joy Mitchell Anti-Bullying Co-ordinator introduced
- Task group being transformed to Steering group/membership agreed
- WAG Anti-Bullying conference 14/10 at Llandudno
- Anti-Bullying week 17/11 discussed
02 / PASS /
- Lead in place to drive PASS forward
- Twenty one schools involved in the pilot scheme
- Following presentation 08/09/08, all primary schools now have access to PASS survey
- All high schools and special schools will have access to PASS survey by the end of spring term 09
- PASS Task group met on 03/10/08. Next step is to provide schools with training workshops which will enable schools to interrogate the PASS data to a greater depth
- RAISE schools encouraged to include PASS in their proposal to the WAG. Those with SAP trained staff encouraged to utilise their skills in addressing the needs identified by PASS survey
- All primary schools now have access to PASS
03 / Maximising Achieve-ment /
- Any outstanding issues to be raised with regard to Traveller children and Children with EAL to be fed into SCoG by GE
- Link required to update SCoG on progress of Young Carers group with regard to education issues
- Poverty and Education:A research report has been drafted on the issues linking education and poverty, some strategies that have been used nationally and the successes achieved. SCoG members invited to advise on further interventions and research to allow for a more informed report.
04 / Keeping in Touch /
- The work / remit of the KIT groups are at present being reconsidered. This is in light of the ‘Delivering Skills which work for Wales’ document
- Work has been undertaken in anticipation of the final guidance due from WAG
06 / Maximising use of School Buildings / Protocol:
- Draft protocol completed from a Legal point of view, taken to consortia meetings in September and to be taken to the Primary Heads Federation in October to allow for final comments
- Request made by the School Health Service to use a room in LlayJuniorSchool as a base. This would need to be incorporated into the protocol
- Raised issues of CRB checks and access to the rest of the building. It was suggested that TAMs liaise with the Head teacher and ensure that Officers are kept informed. A checklist will be drafted with input from TAMs and LEA officers e.g. once verified with TAMs, ensure that CRBs are in place, risk assessment introduced and access of school building by other parties considered
- Suggested that a Surveyor/Valuation should be tasked to view the area under discussion and any proposed sites assessed individually in future
- Reminded that the protocol is a guidance document for schools and not a Policy, thus Executive Board approval is not required
- Suggested that the protocol is passed to all Governing Bodies for them to consider adopting, with a covering letter stating they need to add this to their Lettings Policy with confirmation by letter that this has been done. Related governor training issues to be picked up by MM
- 3 schools opened in September: Maes y Mynydd, GwersylltPrimary School and Penycae C.P.
- Consultation on the amalgamation of Acton Infants and Juniors has concluded and the Statutory Proposal published
- ToR to be finalised at next meeting
07 / 14-19 /
- Quality update and next steps: Next steps in terms of quality are to proceed with the SAR and the ANDP. The SAR will take into account progress in implementing the ANDP, and recommendations from the Estyn inspections. The SAR will inform the ANDP for 2009-10
- Additional Revenue 2008/9: Documentation was distributed prior to the meeting to outline ideas for using additional revenue money which was initially earmarked for VLE. The funding was discussed - all suggestions link to the current ANDP.
- A piece of research has been commissioned to find out the option requirements of Welsh medium pupils which will be completed by mid December
- ANDP and Revenue Allocation 2009/10: Monies available for 2009/10 - £756,559. The ANDP will be submitted by end of Jan 09 allowing WAG time to consider it
- Skills Centre: Chris Hughes has taken over as Chair of the Skills Centre Steering Group following JOR’s retirement
08 / EYDCP /
- Flying Start Update: National Evaluation of the Initiative is on-going. Impact will be much longer term. Early identification of needs
- Foundation Phase Update: Training of all Foundation Phase Practitioners in maintained and non-maintained settings is ongoing
- Childcare Act 2006: Draft Childcare Sufficiency Action Plan discussed. All people to take the lead on recommendations were identified within the membership of EYDCP
- CIB have new Name and Logo – Family Information Service (FIS) – launch in October
- Genesis II launched. Project Management Board membership agreed
09 / Looked after Children Education Group /
- Well established Joint Panel for Education
- Achievement of LAC with representations from all 3 departments CYPS
- Panel monitors education of individual pupils who are at risk of exclusion; difficult to place; requiring additional support
- Panel oversees expenditure of RAISE grant for LAC
- Panel makes recommendations to Corporate Parenting panel
- Update on RAISE grant spending
- Results of school leavers
- Individual pupils’ needs/progress discussed
- Corporate parenting panel
- Numbers of young people requiring an Out of County Placement
Overview report: / October 2008 / Strategic Co-ordinating Group (SCoG): / Enjoy and Participate
TF/Linked Group
/ Headlines / Progress / Problems / Issues01 & 02 / YP Website
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Directory of Services/ Personal Support /
- Major issue with website is keeping the information updated – this is becoming too much extra work for staff at Info.
- Figure of £10,000 for one day per week for an additional member of staff has been put forward previously – however this needs further investigation as to exactly what this would pay for.
- Group agreed that a Business Case needed to be written with exact details about the elements needed to update the website i.e. IT work, leading the YP group, and the admin work around updating, along with exact costings. This would be presented at the SCoG.
03 / Framework for Participation (Youth Parl) /
- Some disappointment among young people about slow progress with Youth Parliament report, though steps have been agreed to try to move forward.
- The young people have undertaken training with Funky Dragon and have applied to be part of a Global Citizenship panel. The applications have to go through the selection process.
- Group are going to be undertaking consultation on play and parks, and are supporting with a consultation into a young people’s wing at the hospital
04 / Play Strategy 0-25 /
- Draft Play Policy is now completed.
- Reports detailing the findings of the Playworker consultation, the disabled children consultation and the wider consultation are all now available.
- Play Strategy – 22 draft objectives have been identified for the new play strategy
- The draft Play Strategy will be made available at the start of October. This will be available for consultation through the Play Network membership and the WCBC website. The children and young people consulted in the development of the strategy will also be re- consulted on the identified objectives and actions.
- A strategic action plan will accompany the Play Strategy. This will be reviewed and redeveloped on an annual basis by the Strategic Play Forum allowing for developments in the play sector over the next 5 years.
Consultation process will begin in mid October.
The first annual strategic plan action plan will be available with the draft Play Strategy. / Although the draft strategy will be available for consultation in Oct 08. Scrutiny Committee will not be able to consider it until January 09. This is likely to delay the launch of the new strategy until Feb 09.
05 / Advocacy /
- A new Task and Finish group has been set up to work on funding strategies for the next phase of work – advocacy for under 11’s.
- A draft paper on independence was discussed by the group, and comments were given. Paper will be discussed again during the November meeting
06 / Parenting Strategy /
- Group has been established to lead on the development to produce a Parenting Strategy for Wrexham by September 2009, and to lead on the development of parenting provision across all provider organisations across Wrexham, in order to implement the Welsh Assembly Government’s Parenting Action Plan.
- Group will have 4 sub groups to lead on the 4 elements of the strategy:
2. Participation
3. Development of Parenting Provision
4. Education and Schools
- These groups will feed into the Parenting Group
- A timeline for the development of the development of the strategy was agreed
- Draft terms of reference document was distributed and changes suggested. This will be amended and finalised.
07 / TAC /
- See handout at meeting
08 / Flying Start /
- See handout at meeting
09 / ASB – Early Intevention /
- See separate report
OVERVIEW REPORT / October 2008 / Strategic Co-ordinating Group (SCoG): / Healthy and Active
TF/Linked Grp
/ Lead / Headlines / Progress / Problems / IssuesHA01 / NSF
Ch4 / Emotional Health, Well-being and counselling t&f group (formerly CAMHS)
Dates of meetings
4.11.08
16.12.08 /
- AR
Update given to LSCB on 4th September / The Emotional Health and Wellbeing Strategy group have developed a 6 page leaflet which provides the basis for a common language as described in action 1 of the LSB workplan.
The Local Health Board and the North Wales NHS Trust (East) through the CAMHS Training Strategy group have commenced training in Wrexham..
The Principle CAMHS Specialist has worked with partner agencies to deliver a range of training across disciplines and agencies.
HA02 / NSF
Ch 5 / Integrated Children’s Disability Service (ICDS) /
- YH
HA03 / NSF
Ch3 / Young Carers
Dates of meetings
10.12.08 /
- MS
- There have been no meetings since the last SCoG.
- However, the action plan is progressing as planned.
HA04 / SP02
Local / CYP Substance Misuse commissioning group
Date of meetings
5th November 2008 14.00-16.30
15th December 2008 09.30-12.0
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Venue: Guildhall, Committee Room 1 /
- VJ
Further 2 meetings since last report
TOR’s still developing
Representation developed. / The terms of reference are still being worked upon as are an important document in helping the group move forward and develop.
Membership has also evolved to ensure effective representation.
The group have reviewed and finalised the priorities for CYP and substance misuse to be included in HSCWB strategy and CYPP. These form the basis for the groups work plan.
HA
05 / SP08
Nat / YP Focused sexual health project
Date of meetings
?? /
- J.O’K
- DD
- A report supported by a draft business case is currently being consulted on with partners.
HA07 / NSF Ch2 / Public health Commissioning Group /
- Verbal update
Speech and Language
Date of meetings
TBC /
- KA
Autistic Spectrum Disorder T&F group
Date of meetings
18th November 2008 /
- GE
- Final Draft Framework to be amended and circulated to multi-agency groups.
- Performance Management Action Plan (PMAP) to be revised with ASD group members.
Headline report: / Sept 2008 / Strategic Co-ordinating Group (SCoG): / Safe From harm
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/ Headlines / Progress / Problems / Issues01 / Children and Families Information About Safeguarding / Set of 5 LSCB leaflets progressing to the printing stage. /
- All leaflets have now been read by the Equalities Manager and her comments incorporated into the text.
- Amended leaflets have been translated.
- Print unit preparing samples for Development Group meeting on 9.7.08.
- Orders collated, suggested numbers for printing will be brought to Development Group.
02 / YP Housing/
Accommodation / No headlines to report due to group being unable to meet. /
- Marc Williams, Service Manager within housing has agreed to take over the role of Chair for this group which has not been able to meet since January due to other work pressures.
- The group will meet prior to the next SCoG and a report on progress will follow
03 / Training sub-group / Training programme currently on target as set out in the LSCB Training plan.
Attendance on all programmes good; most courses fully subscribed. /
- A half day programme was delivered to managers from various agencies, topic ‘Managing the child protection process: Lessons from serious case reviews’.
- Workshops being set up for the second half of the year on cultural issues around safeguarding
04 / Audit sub-group / Nothing to report at this time. The last meeting of this group was 15th May, reported in the June SCoG. Next meeting due 18th Sept. /
- Case of special interest planned to take place 18th September
05 / Domestic Abuse Strategic Group / Announcement of Rural Development Funding to provide ‘Right to be Safe’ Domestic Abuse Programmes. Parallel learning for mothers and children (post abuse) and separate groups for teenagers who have been impacted by their experience of domestic abuse and may be at risk of negative behaviours. / Sept 2nd launch of partnership arrangements with the NSPCC to co-deliver the Right to be Safe Programmes. / N/A / Model is based on bringing together teams of professionals from across statutory and voluntary sector service for children and young people / domestic abuse sector who are able to co-deliver these programmes in rural locations in WrexhamCounty.
06 / CYP Workforce Development CYPP – Chptr 11 workforce planning / Chair of this group has been invited to attend the SCoG in Sept and a verbal report will be provided. / To be provided verbally. / To be provided verbally. / To be provided verbally.