Part 6.3.3 - Appendix: Children's Prevention and Early Help Partnership

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Contents

1. Preamble
2. Establishment and Accountability
3. Scope of Role
4. Membership
5. Chairman and Quorum
6. Meetings and Decision Making

1. Preamble

• 1.1 Part 3 (Meeting Procedure Rules) and Part 6 (Council Bodies) set out the rules and procedures that apply to all of the Council's Bodies and Sub-Bodies.
• 1.2 If there is any conflict between the wording of Parts 3 and 6 and this Appendix, this Appendix will prevail.

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2. Establishment and Accountability

• 2.1 The Children's Prevention and Early Help Partnership ("CPEHP") (previously the Children's Delivery Group) is a Sub-Body of the West Berkshire Health and Wellbeing Board ("HWB").
• 2.2 The CPEHP will link and liaise with the Berkshire West Children's Safeguarding Partnership and its associated sub groups.
• 2.3 The CPEHP, through the Chairman, is accountable to the Council via the HWB Steering Group ("HWBSG"), and the HWB.

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3. Scope of Role

• 3.1 The CPEHP will:
  • act as the strategic group accountable for the Early Help ("EH") System ("EHS" - see diagram below at 3.2) and the partnership infrastructure;
  • provide a focus on, and foster strong partnership arrangements to enable partners to take collective responsibility for, share risks and jointly invest in, EH, whole family and whole system working;
  • have oversight of the development, embedding, monitoring and review of an EH assessment and plan ('My Family Plan') across the CPEHP;
  • work towards a shared culture, principles, practice framework and set of processes within the EHS;
  • create context where leaders at different levels across the CPEHP focus on building productive and trusting relationships with partners;
  • develop a balanced system, so that more appropriate support is provided for children and families earlier to reduce unnecessary or costly statutory intervention in the children's social care system;
  • draw on local and national evaluation to show the impact of EH on outcomes for children and families and reducing demand on statutory services;
  • prioritise an EH Strategy which is a product of joined up thinking across the CPEHP;
  • have oversight of the 1001 days approach to early years;
  • agree a shared set of measures at family, cohort, demand and population level, including quality of whole family practice and family voice, which collectively represent the effectiveness of the EHS;
  • use outcome measures to generate an enquiring and learning culture, with high support and high challenge, enabling shared responsibility for improving outcomes, recognising that no one organisation delivers a specific outcome on their own;
  • develop a culture of using evaluation and evidence to inform the development of the EHS and the quality of whole family working;
  • ensure that work undertaken is trauma informed and developmentally aware, keeping therapeutic approaches at the forefront;
  • ensure that there is synergy with the SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disabilities) Strategy and Early Years Strategy, linking in with the relevant strategic/operational groups;
  • ensure good early help practice forms part of the standards for commissioning of services to support the application of local voluntary, community and faith groups as service providers;
  • act as the delivery arm of the HWB and support the delivery of the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy principles.
  • provide regular reports to the HWBSG and/or the HWB.
• 3.2 Image of EHS:
  

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4. Membership

• 4.1 The CPEHP group membership consists of the following individuals, or a representative of the following bodies or groups (with members encouraged to identify Substitutes to attend if they are unable to do so):
  • the Executive Member with responsibility for Children Services;
  • Children and Family Service - the Council's senior responsible officer;
  • Early Response Hub - the Council's senior officer;
  • Supporting Families - the Council's senior officer;
  • Education - the Council's senior responsible officer;
  • Public Health and Wellbeing Team - the Council's senior officer;
  • Housing - the Council's senior officer;
  • Building Communities Together Team - the Council's senior officer;
  • Schools - Primary/Secondary head teacher representative;
  • Thames Valley Police;
  • Health (CAMHS/school nursing/health visiting);
  • Voluntary and Community Sector;
  • Berkshire West Safeguarding Children Partnership;
  • Healthwatch West Berkshire;
  • Family Parent Carer Forum.

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5. Chairman and Quorum

• 5.1 The Council's senior responsible officer for its Children and Family Service shall be Chairman of the Board and Council's senior responsible officer for its Education Service shall be Vice-Chairman.
• 5.2 The quorum for a meeting is four members. 

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6. Meetings and Decision Making

• 6.1 Ordinary Meetings of the CPEHP will generally take place quarterly.
• 6.2 The CPEHP will be responsible for making decisions in relation to its operational and strategic priorities and the delivery of such.

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