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Supporting Leaders and Managers to Deliver Preventative Services Through Children’s Centres Bernadette Caffrey & LGSS Organisational and Workforce Development. Children’s Centres Statutory Guidance:. Overarching Outcome and Expectation
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Supporting Leaders and Managers to Deliver Preventative Services Through Children’s CentresBernadette Caffrey & LGSS Organisational and Workforce Development
Children’s Centres Statutory Guidance: Overarching Outcome and Expectation “ Children’s Centres improve outcomes for young children and their families and reduce inequalities, particularly for those families in greatest need of support”
Children’s Centres Statutory Guidance Key Outcomes • High Quality and High Standards • Safeguarding • Integrated Working
Work so far.... • Around the Family project outcomes • Supervision workshops • Leadership and management, alongside exploration of challenges presented in service delivery/targeted work
Feedback from workshop participants about support which Children’s Centres need • Support for supervisors • Improved links with social care • Transitional support to work with changes in expectation – perceived higher level work • Need: • Definition of targeted work • Managing risk • Confidence in getting it right
Feedback cont.... • Consistency of supervision offer • Improved support mechanisms • Time management training
Way Forward • Action learning sets to be organised to bring supervisors together for peer learning • Further dialogue with social care • Links to prevention teams • Supervision policy • Access to OWD generic management training opportunities, and LSCB training opportunities • Family support and prevention training to continue
Options for Accessing OWD Training • Choose the programmes from our Open Programme www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/traininganddevelopment • Based on your feedback today we will devise a learning and development programme to meet your needs including bespoke training. • All queries to: workforcedevelopment@northamptonshire.gov.uk