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Mobility and Young London
The Mobility and Young London report (GOL 2006) identified that a key challenge in London under the ECM agenda is how we support children, young people and their families who present with additional needs to a service/professional outside of their home authority. Download the report from this page.
A Mobility and Young London Board chaired by Kingston's Director of Children's Services was established in June 2007. The Board aimed to address some of the key challenges identified in the report , to support performance improvement and therefore offer added value to local authorities. 3 project areas were approved.
Government Office for London have been working with Local Authorities across London and neighbouring shire counties, and with key national, regional and local stakeholders. The mobility programme focuses on a concept of the ‘passport’ to services (placing children, young people and their families or carers at the heart of the work) rather than a protocol between services. The three areas of work are:
Strand 1 - Passport for enabling children and young people to stay in education. To improve the attendance and prevent the exclusion and unlawful off rolling of pupils educated out of borough.
Strand 2 - A Passport to enable Easy access for children in care to out of borough child and adolescent mental health and emotional wellbeing services
Strand 3 - A London CAF Protocol
See also the The London Quality Assurance framework for Alternative provision
There is also data available:
From January 2009 - showing Local Authority cross border movement of school pupils resident in England. See tables HERE and HERE
Also a graphical representation London map of this data
From January 2008 - showing the net difference between imports and exports as % of the school population and a matrix for London.
From 2007 - showing Local Authority and school level information for the academic year 2006/07.
This is information is sourced from the DCSF website
Strand 1:
Through London Local Authorities and school partners implementing this Passport will ensure:
a) Fewer London children and young people fall through the gap
b) Fewer London children and young people will be missing from education
c) Fewer London children and young people will be persistently absent
d) No London children and young people will have little or no access to services to support their attendance, prevent their exclusion or prevent them being unlawfully off-rolled.
This Passport has been developed in discussion with 24 LAs, DCSF and National Strategies. A consultation took place on 6 June 2008.
Download the 'Supporting Pan London Cross-authority Working' HERE
Download the 'Statistics of Education: School Destinations of Secondary
School Pupils Resident in London Boroughs, 2009 HERE
Impact on services:
There are 5 models in London that Local Authorities have in the management of attendance. These lead to either duplication of resources to families of children educated out of borough or providing no education welfare provision for children educated out of borough. We have remodeled the way in which Local Authorities work together by:
a) Establishing a clear approach to managing cross borough working where there are no current formal cross borough arrangements in place, where Local Authority attendance strategies for out of borough pupils differ to that of resident pupils, where neighbouring Local Authority attendance strategies differ, and where communications between authorities break down.
b) Offering clarity on where the responsibilities for attendance, exclusions and off rolling lie for schools and Local Authorities.
| Implementation Toolkit In order to support all LAs to implement the Passport we have developed a toolkit that offers: • An implementation plan and timetable and how we know if the Passport is working • Briefing papers for LAs and school staff • Feedback opportunities • A training pack for frontline staff • Regional Network meetings • Case Studies • FAQ • Links to key DCSF documentation Documents will be added to the toolkit over time. We very much welcome good practice examples or case studies from LAs and schools. View the Toolkit HERE |
Newsletters:
Associated Documents:
Overseas children requiring school places for academic year 2006-2007
Safeguarding and Child Protection: Identifying children out of school - letter
Notification of child out of school - template
PWSP MANAGEMENT MEETING – 10 JULY 2008 UPDATE ON PUPILS WITHOUT SCHOOL PLACES
Migration Impact Fund - Presentation
Migration Impact Fund - Guidance to Applicants
Migration Impact Fund - Invitation to submit bids
Strand 2:
Care Matters identified that the health of children and young people in care (CiC), including their mental health, is substantially worse than that of their peers living with their birth families. This could be because of the impacts of poverty, poor parenting, physical / sexual abuse and neglect.
Download the Passport HERE
This Passport relates directly to the following elements identified in the consultation:
- Every child and young person in care will have a personalised health plan, to include physical and emotional health.
- Priority access to CAMHS for all children in care across London.
- Health support needs to be more than the standard checks e.g. about understanding and meeting individual needs and listening to problems. Not 9-to-5 support. Health professionals need to understand the needs of Children in care.
London Local Authorities and health partners implementing this Passport will help children in care access emotional well being support when they need it and where they want to access it. There were two consultation workshops held where 25 LAs and PCTS were represented.
Impact:
a) how CAMHS is delivered to CiC
b) given a transparency to carers and children in care of the emotional wellbeing pathway (tier 1-3)
c) increased awareness of the availability of emotional wellbeing services
d) improve the experience of children and young people accessing emotional wellbeing provision
e) providing model commissioning specification for CAMHS to LAs and PCTS
f) Sharing good practice
Strand 3:
The London CAF Protocol: The goal was to develop a “CAF Protocol” for children, young people and their families or carers, which emphasizes the portability of the common assessment with ownership firmly in the hands of children, young people and their families or carers. With agreed processes to share information safely with other practitioners and facilitate access into cross borough wrap around services for vulnerable children and young people (CYP) leading to earlier identification of additional needs and earlier interventions.
On 9th July 2008 GOL held a consultation event that focused on the development of a Pan London CAF Protocol. This one day workshop enabled stakeholders involved in improving the Every Child Matters outcomes for children and young people to input into the design of the protocol.
Working alongside the GOL Mobility Programme Manager, two Local Authority strategic leads for CAF (Lambeth and Camden) are leading this project. Under the auspices of a project team of 15 LAs, the Pan London Integrated Working Network and with DCFS IISAM team, the project leads will be consolidating all the feedback from the event on 9th July 2008 to shape the CAF Protocol. This first draft of the Protocol was reviewed by over 400 professionals from the full range of the sectors involved in delivering services to children, young people and families and in developing policy for children, young people and families.
The Protocol was launched on 27 April 2009 and can be viewed and downloded HERE
Impact:
a) For Local Authorities and services – a shared and agreed understanding of a CAF process,thresholds of need and use of CAF across London.(Currently being adopted in 33 different ways).
b) QA framework in place (none in place as yet and no national QA framework).
c) Improve the experience for children young people and their families/carers engaged in the CAF process.
The London Quality Assurance framework for Alternative provision
The London Quality Assurance framework (LQAF) for Alternative provision establishes a set of principles that respond to the DCSF guidance on commissioning alternative providers and a protocol that outlines cross borough working.
These principles underpin effective quality assurance, verification and commissioning of alternative provision
The LQAF also includes useful guidance to help local authorities improve and develop high quality provision for young people.
Why did we produce this protocol?
• To establish methods of working that will enable a coherent and coordinated approach to the quality assurance of alternative provision. It is part of the Pan London Back on Track Project as it supports the development of high quality provision
Who is this protocol aimed at?
• All commissioners for alternative provision for 14-16 year olds
• All alternative providers
What does the protocol or memorandum of Understanding represent?
An agreement by Association of London Directors of Children's Services to work collaboratively and to improve outcomes for young people by:
• Ensuring that London Local Authorities local quality assurance and commissioning framework used to assess providers of alternative education is consistent with the principles identified in LQAF.
• Committing to implementing the principles of the LQAF and implementing the cross authority processes within the protocol
• Ensuring a named officer responsible for the quality assurance and commissioning of alternative providers is identified with a contact published on the LA web based Family information Services directory.
• Committing to establishing a local database of approved providers with supporting evidence with quality assurance and verification results and any supporting monitoring and outcomes data per provider
Download the LQAF:
See also a BLANK SLA
The LQAF was launched at an event on 13 October 2009 - See HERE
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