Notes from the Aylesbury, Buckingham, Wendover & Wing Local Children and Young People’s Trust Partnership Board Meeting

2–4pm Monday 6th December 2010 in The Training Suite, Annexe B, Buckinghamshire County Council

Attendees: Ed Mallam, Operations Manager, Children’s Trust Delivery Unit, BCC Anna Durnin, Projects Officer, BCC Sue Martin, Executive, Action4Youth Joy O’Neill, Chair of Governors, Halton School Matt Partridge, Aylesbury Vale District Council Julie Montigue, Early Intervention & Prevention Manager, BCC Annette Parkin, Booker Park School Bob Harrison, Connexions Tina Wooller, Safeguarding Manager, Aylesbury College

Apologies: Samantha Hornsby, Chief Officer, Healthy Living centre Lucy Pike, Assistant Operations Manager, Youth Services Michaela Smith, Bucks Sport Jane Plested, Barnardos Donna Clarke, CAMHS Richard List, Thames Valley Police Stella Dutton, NHS Aylesbury lead Kate Elliot, Aylesbury Academy Kesze Saunders, Operations Manager, Youth Offending Service Jan Jones, Buckingham Primary School

Agenda Notes Action Item 1 The Local Trust Partnership Boards came about following the review of the Trust structure. The three Local Boards are based on the Early Intervention geographical areas.

Development days were held in May where members of all 3 Boards met, but the launch of the individual Boards was delayed due to certain key pieces of data that were required before they commenced.

Following the Coalition Government announcements, the Trust Board were clear that they wanted to keep Local Boards and the Children & Young People’s Plan, and would like to engage school as far as possible despite the removal of the duty to cooperate.

2 Discussion around the level at which this Board will operate, and how senior the members should be. The terms of reference on p12 of the Trust Structure document were referred to and agreed as being appropriate. These state that a member should be able to make strategic decisions, allocate funding, etc.

Some additions to the ToR were agreed, to include the following:

1 The Local Trust Board is a strategic group who will set local priorities and will call in appropriate groups as required to avoid the membership getting too large.

Substitutes should be identified for each member to attend in their absence.

It was agreed that the Board will meet monthly to start with, to be reviewed after 6 months. There are several important documents due over the next few months and this frequency will help build relationships between the member organisations.

There is no allocated resource. Proposals could go to the Joint Commissioning Group and Local Area Forums could be utilised.

It was noted that on p13 of the Trust Structure document, the Early Intervention Teams are only virtual at present.

Key policy updates will be sent to members through Yvette Thomas, Policy & Equalities Manager, BCC.

It was noted that the geographical location of the people who access services can often mean they use services from other local authorities. There is also a vast difference between the areas encompassed by the Local Trust Partnership Board.

3 Membership was discussed and the following organisations or groups were suggested:

Early Years, BCC Children’s Centres, Housing, Children from Service EM/AD Families, Travellers, Strategic Area Network, BASH, education providers.

The Chair will have a place on the Trust Board and will lead the Local Board meetings. The workload and duties outside the meetings are not yet clear as the Local Boards are so new. EM and AD will support the Chair. It was agreed that all members should consider whether they would take on the role and this will be decided at the next meeting. Suggestion made to time limit and rotate the role. ALL

It was agreed that Ed Mallam could be the Vice Chair if no one else is able to take on this role.

4 The Trust Board approved the outline for the new Children & Young People’s Plan in October. On December 16th the Board will consider the 5 existing priorities to see whether they remain valid. Children and young people have already been consulted on these priorities.

The future of National Indicators is unknown as yet, so this may affect the plan. The Child Poverty Strategy will also influence the targets.

5 The mock up Local Area Profiles were distributed. A fact sheet will be produced for each of the 19 areas. These will be updated regularly.

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JO’N queried whether service families could be included – the services EM/AD families working group has some data that could help. There are currently 580 service children in state schools. A high proportion of these have Special Educational Needs. ACORN data does not often reflect service families accurately when lower ranking officers are placed in wealthy rural areas.

Ward level information might be more accurate – will this be available in future? AD

It was noted there is a gap in provision for young people leaving education, particularly for those in the middle who have moderate learning difficulties.

It was noted that there is a gap in transitions plans and that these should be identified much sooner than at 18 yrs. The Learning Dimensions group has done work on this.

A brief document to outline other groups and pieces of work will be put together to ensure that the Board does not duplicate work, and can link in EM/AD with different existing initiatives where appropriate.

6 Child Poverty update: a workshop was held on Friday following the needs assessment and consultation. The priorities were identified and discussed at the workshop and will be worked into the strategy. On Dec 16th the Trust Board will agree the approach to the strategy which will be drafted by February and implemented in March – April. Pam Curtis has been appointed as Project Manager.

7 A local priority for each of the three Boards was identified at the workshop held in May. It was suggested that while this was still valid, the National Indicators and local profiles, once available, will be likely to dictate the priorities.

It was suggested that each organisation would have their own key issues and that each member could put forward one priority, with backing evidence, for the group to consider at the next meeting. ALL

The role of Local Trust Board members should also include informing other, smaller groups on areas of work and see whether mutual value could be added by working together. Issues can be fed into the Local Trust Board through its members and equally members should feed back to other groups they are involved with to ensure 2 way communication.

8 It was agreed that the meeting dates should be set ahead for the next 6 months. If anyone can offer a venue free of charge, please let AD know.

Next Meeting: tbc

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