Birmingham Children’s Partnership – Covid 19 Relief

Stakeholder Briefing: Early Help and the return to education in the Hall Green locality

10th June 2020 Agenda: 1hr together For partners working in Hall Green, , Springfield, , &

FOCUS: Supporting children, young people and families get the support needed during the transition back into education: • Key issues for families • Challenges and opportunities for schools (Jennie Howes, Assistant Head, ) • Community support * Education Partnership (Manjit Shellis Technology Project & Tomas Ashley Mental Health and Inclusion) * Narthex Food Bank (Nigel Brookhouse, CEO) * Birmingham Children's Partnership (Vina Patel, Family Support and Early Help Co-ordinator) • Hall Green Families resources and support update • Strengthening networking between schools and community support

Help us grow local partnerships Please participate, raise ideas/questions in chat and feedback We will follow-up! Returning to school

More than 1 billion students are still out of school due to nationwide school closures, but more than 70 countries have announced plans to reopen schools and hundreds of millions of students have returned in recent weeks.

Given the difficulty of the situation… They will have to consider public health, the benefits and risks for education and other factors.

The best interest of every child should be at the centre of these decisions, using the best available evidence, but exactly how this will look will vary from school to school. (Unicef, as of early June 2020) Eat ? Play Grow ? Learn Be Safe ? Exercise Develop Some Key Issues

For Families For Schools  Mental health  Risk management  Economic difficulties/job losses/debt  Staffing and capacity  Shielding and social isolation  Engaging with families  Engaging with other services  Increased support/safeguarding needs during recovery as Covid-19 has made some families  School recovery more vulnerable  Pupil safety  School and service access ???  Free School Meal vouchers …? recovery mode Eligibility, use and uptake  Pupil safety and engagement  Challenges  IT technology and data  Opportunities and community  Ongoing food concerns: connections  Free School Meal vouchers (what happens to  Plans going forward if children go back part-time or not at all?  Increased support/safeguarding  Access to shops, choosing healthy food, needs (some families now more vulnerable, culturally relevant food bereaved, shielding etc.)  Vouchers problematic

Challenges and opportunities for schools

Vinaben Patel Early Help Schools Project Coordinator Supporting Documents & Contacts

Education documents / Education recourses: https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/50045/safeguarding_briefings

Early Help Tools/ Paperwork: Birmingham Children's Safeguarding Partnership - http://www.lscpbirmingham.org.uk/

Resources: The waiting room - https://the-waitingroom.org/ Education STICK – 0121 303 8328

CASS - Safeguarding Queries 0121 303 1888 / EDT - 0121 675 4806 Family Support Duty Line – Additional Needs/ Family Support Queries – see form Early Help Support Team– Early Help Queries - 0121 303 8117 Think Family PBR Team – submission/ claim support - 0121 6756362

Education Safeguarding Team Duty - Education issues – 0121 303 2291

Aces – online https://www.acesonlinelearning.com/

To register your Early Help Assessment and Our Family Plan, please send to the Early Help and Support Team: [email protected].

Birmingham Children’s Partnership, Early Help for children & families during Covid-19

Hall Green Families Early Help role in community support Community partnership working to strengthen family and community resilience:

• Connecting & networking

• Making referrals and links with local support and resilience funds

• Providing support services (addressing local early help need)

• Community grants

• Directory of Hall Green community support

Birmingham Children’s Partnership Locality Support activity data

Service type Indicator Wk 1 Wk 2 Wk 3 Wk 4 Wk5 Wk6 Total Early Help referrals Total number of 195 103 115 139 146 341 1,039 referrals % Food 83% 78% 69% 68% 74% % Money advice 47% 30% 21% 47% 36% % Health & 17% 29% 10% 5% 14% Wellbeing % Parenting support 12% 21% 8% 3% 10%

% Safeguarding 1% 1% 0% 0% 0% % Employment 18% 16% 0% 1% 8% % Resilience funding 83% 90% 54% 95% 80%

% Other 7% 10% 9% 3% 7% Community Grants No. community 114 51 45 50 34 42 336 grant applications requiring assessment No. approved 36 19 14 18 14 20 121 No. rejected 50 23 25 19 18 18 153 No. deferred / other 28 9 6 23 7 5 78

[1] From Week 6 onwards, this figure includes resilience fund re-referrals sent by BVSC and excludes the circa 500 families referred to localities by Birmingham Children’s Trust. [2] Note: number of approved + rejected + deferred/other applications will not equal the total number of applications requiring assessment because in some cases, when applications are submitted in error, these are categorised as ‘other’ and not categorised as an application requiring assessment. Resilience Funding Needs Analysis

TOTAL Other White goods 7% Consumables 4% 5% Food 29% Medicine 2%

Data 13%

Rent 13%

Bills 27%

Hall Green total grant value £40,425 Number of grants approved 311

To 3rd June £300,708 Citywide Number of grants approved 2,317 Connecting families to support Aquarius 1:1 sessions and care planning

contact 0121 622 7780 [email protected] How can we strengthening partnership working between schools and community support?

• Email • Phone calls • E-updates • Bi-weekly network • Social media • Monthly online met-ups • Video briefings • meetings • Website resources • Other

• Next steps…

Let’s keep talking

Hall Green Families Team Phone/Text/Whatsapp on 07570 953519 Email/Mailing list [email protected] Follow us on twitter and Facebook @HallGreenFamilies for updates