Improving Children's Services in Doncaster
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Workstream:
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Personalisation, Social Care, Health and Wellbeing and Criminal Justice
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Title:
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Improving Children's Services in Doncaster
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Scope:
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Local Authority - Doncaster
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Funds awarded:
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£114,051
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Lead contact:
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Howard Monk
Tel:01302 736911
Email: howard.monk@doncaster.gov.uk
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Background:
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• Improved Communication to Staff, Partners and Stakeholders to impact positively on the reputation of Doncaster’s Children’s Services
• Improved performance data through specific data quality and assurance of the social care records system Improved support and governance for the Local Strategic Partnership & Children’s Trust in order to strengthen local partnerships |
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Delivery:
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• It is recognised from the APA and Commissioned reports that both communications and governance arrangements need urgent redress, this is essential in the communication of the Children’s Service Improvement Plan and therefore a dedicated Communications Manager will be appointed for 6 months to oversee effective internal and external communications
• Accurate performance data is essential to inform the delivery of the plan, therefore Data Quality Assurance of social care records system (Carefirst) will be improved through essential system clean-up and staff training – both improving processes and enhancing skill levels of staff as well as informing service delivery decision making • Local Strategic Partnership & Children’s Trust support & governance arrangements will be improved through an independent report that will initially set out the most effective support and governance arrangements for the partnership. This will then lead to the establishment of new support and governance structures. |
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Outcomes:
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• The transformation of public services in our priority areas;
Improved information, reporting and ownership within Children’s Services
Improved and enhanced skills
An improved Children’s Service within Doncaster • Self-improving authorities that lead and support others, and are open to challenge; Shared knowledge provides the basis for challenge across partner agencies leading to service improvement • Active self-directing and value adding networks that drive innovation and share learning; Doncaster Children’s Services will learn and apply good practice from both experts and ‘good/excellent’ Children’s Services/Authorities • An improvement and efficiency ‘hub’ offering access to coherent and co-ordinated high quality support to all authorities and their partners. Sharing of lessons learned with other authorities |
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