Paper 14 Ayrshire and Arran NHS Board Monday 19 August 2019 South Ayrshire Children’s Services Plan Annual Report 2018/19 Author: Sponsoring Director: Danielle Rae, Policy and Planning Officer Tim Eltringham, Director of Health and Social Care – South Ayrshire Date: 8 July 2019 Recommendation The Board is asked to: • support the contents of the South Ayrshire Children’s Services Plan Annual Report for 2018/19; and • request that the Depute Chief Executive and Director-People for South Ayrshire Council, acting on behalf of the Community Planning Partnership, continues to provide annual progress reports on the Plan to the NHS Board. Summary The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 introduced new duties on a range of public bodies on planning and reporting. Part 3 of the Act requires that a Children’s Services Plan be prepared jointly by local authorities and health boards. In line with this Act the South Ayrshire Children’s Services Plan was prepared for a three year period from 1 April 2017. An Annual Report is drafted to provide a progress update on the actions identified in the Plan and is attached as Appendix 1. Key Messages: This paper outlines some key achievements contained within South Ayrshire Children’s Services Plan Annual Report 2018/19. Glossary of Terms None 1 of 53 1. Background 1.1 The Children and Young People (Scotland) Act 2014 introduced new planning and reporting duties on a range of public bodies. Part 3 of the Act requires a Children’s Services Plan to be prepared jointly by local authorities and health boards to cover a three year period, commencing 1 April 2017. 1.2 Following widespread consultation in 2016/17, South Ayrshire’s Children’s Services Plan was published in April 2017 following agreement both by the Council and the Community Planning Partnership. 1.3 This Plan sets out the priorities for the next three years to ensure children and young people in South Ayrshire are safe, healthy, achieving, nurtured, active, respected, responsible and included. The five priorities within the South Ayrshire Children’s Services Plan are: • Ensure South Ayrshire’s children get the best start in life, it is the best place to grow up, and all children and young people are successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens and effective contributors; • Reduce the gap in outcomes between the most deprived and least deprived children and young people in South Ayrshire; • Ensure young people and children who are looked after or care leavers are cared for and supported to improve their life experiences and life chances; • Ensure young people and children are supported to achieve and maintain good emotional and physical wellbeing; and • Ensure children and young people have a voice in influencing service delivery that affects their lives. 1.4 The Act also places a duty on the local authority and relevant health board to publish an annual report on the extent to which children’s services and related services have, in that period, been working towards improving local priorities for children and young people. 1.5 The content of the draft plan was agreed by the South Ayrshire Community Planning Partnership at its meeting on 3 May 2018 and by South Ayrshire Council Leadership Panel on 12 June 2018. 2. Achievements 2.1 Co-ordination, management and monitoring of the Children’s Services Plan is undertaken by a range of partners through the Children’s Services Planning Group. Some highlights achieved and noted in the Annual Report include: • Three breastfeeding peer support workers, employed by the Breastfeeding Network were in post by February 2019, and will target support in the immediate post-natal period to women who breastfeed following caesarean section; • The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) team continue to deliver the programme to first time parents aged 19 years and under. Between October 2015 and December 2018, 67 young women from South Ayrshire were eligible for FNP programme and of that 48 have enrolled. 2 of 53 • In the early years sector children are making good progress in achieving developmental milestones in Health and Wellbeing, Communication and Language, and Maths and Numeracy; • In 2018/19 Community Learning and Development provided 225 learning opportunities for parents and children in community based settings; • The Police Scotland Work Experience programme in South Ayrshire took place in March 2018 with a group of 15 young people from S3 to S6 and included ten boys and five girls; • In 2018/19, 264 young people received a Youth Scotland Award for their participation in youth work; • Community Learning and Development (CLD) in North Ayr and the villages of Annbank, Mossblown and Tarbolton were inspected by Education Scotland during February and March 2019. The inspection highlighted areas of good practice in the learning community. • The Access to Leisure scheme was launched on 18 May 2018, providing free access to leisure for looked after children and young people or care leavers. To date, 356 memberships have been issued. • Positive progress is being made in South Ayrshire to support young people leaving care to develop the necessary life skills to live independently, hold down tenancies, avoid homelessness and reach their full potential. • The Champions Board have delivered four showcasing events involving young people and their corporate parents, with each event attracting over 100 participants. • Active schools worked in partnership with Community Learning and Development and Girvan Primary to organised Parent and Child Breakfast Club two mornings a week. • Around 900 young people completed the Big Ask survey and told the Community Planning Partnership that priorities outlined in the Children’s Services Plan are still relevant to them. 3. Recommendation 3.1 The Board is asked to: • support the contents of the South Ayrshire Children’s Services Plan Annual Report for 2018/19; and • request that the Depute Chief Executive and Director-People for South Ayrshire Council, acting on behalf of the Community Planning Partnership, continues to provide annual progress reports on the Plan to the NHS Board. 3 of 53 Monitoring Form Policy/Strategy Implications There are no policy implications as the paper is reporting on progress of the Children’s Services Plan 2017-2020. Workforce Implications There are no workforce implications as the paper is reporting on progress of the Children’s Services Plan 2017-2020. Financial Implications There are no financial implications as the paper is reporting on progress of the Children’s Services Plan 2017-2020. Consultation (including The Children’s Services Plan Annual Report 2018/19 Professional Committees) was presented to the Community Planning Partnership Board on 2 May 2019. Risk Assessment A risk assessment has not been carried out at this stage. Best Value The vision of the Children’s Services Plan is ‘closing - Vision and leadership the gap and achieving potential.’ - Effective partnerships Partnership working across Community Planning Partners is critical to make progress on the priorities identified in the Plan. - Governance and The Plan is monitored and governed by the Children’s accountability Services Planning Group which, in turn, is accountable to the Community Planning Board. Partners also adhere to their own organisations governance arrangements. - Use of resources The Children’s Services Planning Group is comprised of members from a number of Community Planning Partners who utilise their own resources to deliver services in their own services and will, at times, deliver services in partnership. - Performance management Performance of the Plan is monitored through Pentana on a regular basis. Compliance with Corporate The Plan supports the following Corporate Objectives: Objectives • deliver transformational change in the provision of health and social care through dramatic improvement and use of innovative approaches • protect and improve the health and wellbeing of the population and reduce inequalities; • create compassionate partnerships between patients, their families and those delivering health and care services which respect individual needs and values; and result in the people using our services having a positive experience of care to get the outcome they expect; 4 of 53 • attract, develop, support and retain skilled, committed, adaptable and healthy staff and ensure our workforce is affordable and sustainable; and • deliver better value through efficient and effective use of all resources. Local Outcome Improvement Partnership working within the content of the CPP is at Plan (LOIP) the heart of the Plan. Supporting are experienced children are identified as a LOIP priority and are a priority of the Children’s Services Plan. Impact Assessment A full Equality Impact assessment has not been carried out as this paper is reporting progress of the Children’s Services Plan 2017-2020. 5 of 53 Appendix 1 CHILDREN’S SERVICES ANNUAL REPORT 2018/19 6 of 53 CONTENTS Introduction . 3 Context. 4 Our Vision for Children and Young People . 5 Priority 1 . 6 Priority 2 . 18 Priority 3 . 25 Priority 4 . 35 Priority 5 . 41 Conclusion . 47 2 7 of 53 INTRODUCTION The Children’s Services Plan for South Ayrshire Young people are also becoming embedded community planning partners sets out our in the Children’s Services Planning Group and priorities for the three year period from 2017 to other strategic groups such as the Mental 2020. We are now into the final year of the plan Health Strategy group. The Champion’s and our aim remains to achieve our vision of Board is also going from strength to strength, closing the gap and achieving potential. challenging all of us to be better corporate This report has been prepared by the South parents. Ayrshire Children’s Services Planning Group. Our inspection in February 2018 said that we We have also consolidated our reporting and had improved the leadership and strategic planning process to improve accountability direction across services for children and and share responsibility.