Children and Young People s Health and Wellbeing partnership Board Terms of Reference October 2015 Introduction The Children s Trust Partnership includes a range of organisations that have a shared goal to improve the emotional and physical health, education, training and skills of children and young people to enable them to move successfully through to adulthood and employment. The Council and its partner organisations strive to provide excellent services, which support the vast majority of children and young people to achieve successful outcomes; however we recognise that vulnerable and disadvantaged children may require additional support to take full advantage of universal services and achieve positive outcomes. The overarching aim of the Children s Trust Strategic Plan 2015-2017, as agreed at the Children s Trust Board meeting on 8 th September 2015, is to improve outcomes for vulnerable children and young people within a framework of excellent services. The Plan recognises that vulnerable children and young people often have a diverse range of complex needs and dependencies which require services / support from a range of agencies. The Children s Trust Strategic Plan 2015-2017 sets out a vision for the Stockport Family of Services and Stockport Family approach, in which the Council and partners work together to ensure high quality targeted and specialist services that meet the needs of each vulnerable or disadvantaged child, young person and / or family in a holistic way. It also requires universal services to work with targeted and specialist services by proactively identifying at an early stage and calling in specialist provision for those who would benefit from extra support. The Stockport Family approach is underpinned by restorative practice, with integrated teams working with children and families to build and repair relationships, understand where families need extra help and develop shared plans. The governance arrangements of the Children s Trust Partnership have been reviewed in order to support the above vision. At its meeting on 8 th September 2015 the Children s Trust Board agreed the following arrangements: - The current multi-agency Thematic Outcome Partnerships will be replaced by three streamlined multi-agency Improvement and Resource Boards: - i. The Education and Skills Partnership Board ii. The Children and Young People Health and Wellbeing Board iii. The Stockport Family Innovation Board The new Boards will take lead responsibility for a thematic area of work, whilst working with the other Boards to identify barriers to positive outcomes which cut across thematic areas, develop /
drive co-ordinated strategies and actions which support the Stockport Family approach, and hold each other to account for their role in contributing to cross-cutting priorities and integrated work. The remit of each Board is summarised in the table below. Board Education and Skills Partnership Board Children and Young People Health and Wellbeing Board Stockport Family Innovation Board Remit Strive to provide high quality universal education for all and remove barriers to educational attainment and skills for disadvantaged children and young people wherever they exist Promote positive emotional health, physical health and wellbeing for children and young people Keep children and young people safe from harm wherever they live and target intervention early in the development of a problem to minimise the negative impact of challenging circumstances; and oversee the implementation of the Stockport Family approach Each Improvement and Resource Board will identify priorities for action which align to the Children s Trust s overarching aim of improving outcomes for vulnerable children and young people. Priorities will be evidence-informed, refreshed on an annual basis and delivered through collaborative working with the other Partnership Boards as part of the Stockport Family approach. The three Boards will receive performance data relating to an agreed set of performance measures which cover the remit of the Children s Trust. Performance reports will place greater emphasis on disaggregation of data by vulnerable group and identification of correlations which form barriers to successful outcomes. This information will be used by the Boards to inform the identification and monitoring of priorities and further help to drive collaborative working between Boards. Terms of reference have been developed for the Improvement and Resource Boards to reflect the arrangements set out above. Proposed Terms of Reference To take lead strategic responsibility in relation to promotion of positive emotional health, physical health and wellbeing for children and young people with a particular focus on those who are disadvantaged. To use best evidence to identify barriers to positive emotional health, physical health and wellbeing and develop a work plan for strategic consideration and resolution of key issues - which aligns to the Children s Trust overarching aim to improve outcomes for vulnerable children and young people within a framework of excellent universal services.
To provide leadership in relation to commissioning of services to promote positive emotional health, physical health and wellbeing for children and young people. To create a forum to ensure that health and other relevant partners support the drive to improve emotional health, physical health and wellbeing through coordinated working. To support the Stockport Family approach by working collaboratively with the Education and Skills and Stockport Family Improvement Boards to identify barriers to positive emotional health, physical health and wellbeing which cut across thematic areas, develop and drive co-ordinated strategies and actions which support the Stockport Family approach; contribute to cross-cutting priorities identified by the other Boards; hold each other to account for each Board s role in contributing to cross cutting priorities and co-ordinated work; Work with the Education and Skills and Stockport Family Innovation Boards to ensure that all duties, requirements and responsibilities around safeguarding children and young people are fulfilled by all partner agencies. To adopt a proactive approach to performance management, by - using performance data to identify correlations which form barriers to successful health outcomes, to inform and monitor priorities, and to further help drive collaborative work between Boards; ensuring that the range of statutory and voluntary targets set for Stockport children and young people are designed to enable them to reach their potential, and measure the impact of interventions to improvement outcomes To report progress and make recommendations to the Children s Trust Board. Individually, members of the Children and Young People s Health and Wellbeing Partnership Board are expected to champion the aims of the Board in their individual service areas and proactively challenge their service to contribute to the work of the Board Cross-cutting members (who sit on more than one Improvement and Resource Partnership Board) are expected to provide a channel of communication between Boards, and proactively facilitate and challenge the Boards to work collaboratively on cross-cutting issues.
Performance Indicators The Children and Young People s Health and Wellbeing Partnership Board will monitor and report to the Children s Trust performance relating to the following indicators; - Children within reception year who are recorded as overweight or obese (percentage and number) Children within Year 6 who are recorded as overweight or obese (percentage and number) Hospital admissions as a result of unintentional or deliberate injury per 1000 0-17 year olds Accident and Emergency attendances as a result of injury per 1000 0-17 year olds Hospital admissions as a result of self-harm per 1000 0-17 year olds Alcohol related hospital admissions (16-19 year olds) Number of under 18s entering specialist substance misuse treatment Number of 18-25 year olds entering specialist drug and alcohol treatment Mothers smoking at delivery (percentage and number) Percentage of young people who currently smoke Percentage of young people who have never smoked Teenage conceptions (number) Mothers who are breastfeeding at 6-8 weeks (percentage and number) Emotional health of Looked After Children (Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire Score) In addition work is on-going to develop and refine performance measures to reflect the outcomes of the range of interventions delivered as part of the Stockport Family Approach; and measures to monitor children s asthma admissions and school age immunisations are also being considered. The above performance indicators will be updated as appropriate. Priorities for the Board To promote positive emotional health, physical health and wellbeing for children and young people with a particular focus on those who are disadvantaged. The following barriers to positive emotional health, physical health and wellbeing will be considered by the Board in forthcoming meetings: - Alcohol related hospital admissions Immunisation in early years Asthma The above issues will be considered with a particular focus on priority cohorts. Membership Name Role Organisation Donna Sager (chair) Deputy Director of Public Health
Duncan Weldrake (vice chair) Public Health Specialist (Children Young People) Alison Caven Commissioning Manager Stockport CCG Chris McLoughlin Service Director, Children s Safeguarding and Prevention Receives minutes Viki Packman Head of Integrated Children's Service Michael Priestley Public Health Commissioner Tanya Cross Health and Well Being Schools Co-ordinator Janice Cahill Head teacher Russ Boaler Consultant for Physical Education and Physical Activity Joanne Ellis Associate Director Child and Family Business Group Stockport Foundation Trust Claire Woodford Acting Associate Director Child and Family Business Group Stockport Foundation Trust Sue Gaskell Designated Nurse for safeguarding Children Stockport CCG Jane Hancock Designated Nurse Looked After Children Stockport CCG Maura Appleby Deputy Head of Children s Services/Parenting Service Manager Stockport NHS Foundation Trust / Integrated Children s Service(ICS) Julie Estcourt Head of Midwifery Service Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
Sarah Turner Senior Health Protection Nurse Jennifer Kilheeney Resilience Officer Gaynor Ward Strategy and Performance Manager (policy, performance and reform) Possible gaps GP Dental health YOS Arrangements for Meetings The Board will meet quarterly for 2 hours. Where possible meetings will be arranged to fit in with the Children s Trust quarterly reporting cycle. Administration of Meetings The Public Health Team will provide administrative support to the board including arranging meetings, planning agendas, distributing papers and collating minutes.