Government Departments Business Plans For 2011 To 2015 A Summary For Cyp Services

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Coalition Government:Business Plans for 2011 to 2015

Impact on Children and Young People Services

1st draft – 12 November 2010




Government Departments included

• Department for Education

• Department of Health

• Department for Work and Pensions

• Cabinet Office




Department for Education





Department for Education priorities

1. Increase the number of high quality schools and introduce fair funding

2. Reform the school curriculum and qualifications

3. Reduce bureaucracy and improve accountability

4. Train and develop the professionals who work with children

5. Introduce new support for the Early Years

6. Improve support for children, young people and families, focusing on the most disadvantaged




Department for Education Priority: 1. Increase the number of high quality schools

and introduce fair funding

• Changes to school landscape through the Academies Act 2010:

– New Academies open from September 2010

– New Free Schools open from September 2011

• Changes to school funding:

- Introduce Pupil Premium for most disadvantaged pupils from September 2011

• Reform complex funding systems for revenue and capital grants:

- Abolish the Building Schools for the Future Programme in June 2010

- Introduce a reform capital funding programme from April 2012




Department for Education Priority: 2. Reform the school curriculum and

qualifications

• Reform the National Curriculum:

– Introduce a new curriculum for primary and secondary schools from September 2013

• Reform the qualifications system:

– Introduce new qualifications including the iGCSE and a new English Baccalaureate

– Expand and improve apprenticeship programme from August 2011

• Introduce Schools White Paper in November 2010




Department for Education Priority: 3. Reduce bureaucracy and

improve accountability

• Reduce regulatory and other burdens on schools and sixth form colleges

– Implement changes to school health and safety arrangements (following Lord Young’s review) by January 2011

– Review the Vetting and Barring Scheme by December 2010

• Support teachers in securing good behaviour in schools

– Introduce a new discipline strategy by December 2010 – Introduce legislation to support teachers to improve behaviour within schools by January

2011

• Reform the number of Arm’s Length Bodies and Quango’s

– Abolish several Quango’s including the Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency (QCDA), the General Teaching Council for England (GTCE), and the School Support Staff Negotiating Body (SSSNB) from July 2011

– Reform Ofsted and Ofqual from January 2011

• Reform the inspection regime for schools and local authorities

– Implement a streamlined and proportionate inspection regime for schools by December 2011

– Implement a streamlined and proportionate inspection regime of local authority children’s services from May 2012




Department for Education Priority: 4. Train and develop the professionals

who work with children

• Improve the school workforce

– Reform initial teacher training and continuous professional development by December 2010

• Reform teachers’ standards, pay and conditions

– Develop revised teacher standards and performance management regulations by September 2011

– Develop proposals on pay and conditions by September 2012

• Recruit and improve the capacity of social workers

– Implement new standards for employers of social workers by May 2011

– Implement new professional standards for social workers by September 2011




Department for Education Priority: 5. Introduce new support for the

Early Years

• Refocus the work of the Sure Start Children’s Centre on proven early intervention programmes by focusing on families in the greatest need

– Develop a Sure Start Children’s Centre reform programme by March 2011

– Introduce a new Early Intervention Grant by June 2011

• Ensure access to sufficient and high quality Early Years provision

– Implement the new Early Years Single Funding Formula for 3 to 4 year olds by April 2011

– Develop proposals to improve the quality of the Early Years workforce by March 2011

– Trial new approaches to roll out the extension of free early education to disadvantaged 2 year olds by September 2012

– Implement a new Early Years framework by September 2012




Department for Education Priority: 6. Improve support for children, young people and

families, focusing on the most disadvantaged

• Review and reform provision for children with Special Educational Needs, Disabilities and Mental Health Needs

– Publish a Green Paper on SEN and Disabilities by December 2010 – Publish a mental health strategy by January 2011

• Improve arrangements for protecting children from harm

– Closedown ContactPoint on 6 August 2010– Consider feasibility of a signposting service for front-line practitioners by May

2011 – Publish Professor Munro’s child protection review and begin to implement

reforms by May 2011

• Improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of the care system

– Publish streamlined regulations, guidance and national minimum standards for fostering, children’s homes and adoption services by April 2011

• Improve opportunities for, and support available to, young people

– Roll out the National Citizen Service from April 2013 – Refocus youth services on early intervention by March 2011




Department for Education:Summary of legislative changes

• Acts of Parliament:

– Academy Act 2010 (July 2010) – Schools/Education and Children’s White Paper due early

2011

• White Papers:

– Schools/Education and Children’s White Paper due November 2010

• Green Papers:

– Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (December 2010)




Department ofHealth





Department of Health priorities

1. Create a patient-led NHS

2. Promote better healthcare outcomes

3. Revolutionise NHS accountability

4. Promote public health

5. Reform social care




Department of Health priority:1. Create a patient-led NHS

• Introduce choice of named consultant-led team for outpatients from April 2011

• Give patients the right to register with the GP practice of their choice from April 2012

• Launch a 24/7 urgent care service, including the new NHS 111 service, across all England from November 2011




Department of Health priority:2. Promote better health outcomes

• Issue first NHS Outcomes Framework for new outcome measures by December 2010

– Fully implement NHS Outcomes Framework by April 2012

• Develop incentives to improve access to primary care in disadvantaged areas by April 2013

• Announce a new funding model for dedicated palliative care by February 2012

• Introduce a new dentistry contract, with particular focus on the oral health of children, by October 2012

• Publish cross-government strategy for mental health services and public mental health by December 2010

• Initiate a stand-alone programme to extend access to NICE-approved talking therapies for children and young people from September 2011




• Improve the effectiveness of commissioning and resource allocation

– Establish NHS Commissioning Board in shadow form from April 2011 and fully establish by April 2012

- NHS Commissioning Board makes allocations to GP consortia for 2013/14 from November 2012

– Complete the abolition of strategic health authorities by April 2012 and primary care trusts by April 2013

– Begin to establish GP consortia in shadow form from April 2011 and fully establish by April 2012

- Give full responsibility for commissioning to GP consortia from April 2013

– Begin working with local government to shape proposals for strengthening local democratic legitimacy, including identifying pathfinder councils to refine proposals from December 2010

- Introduce enhanced role for local authorities to promote integration across health and care and to influence NHS commissioning from April 2012

Department of Health priority:3. Revolutionise NHS accountability




Department of Health priority:4. Promote public health

• Establish Public Health Service by April 2012

• Establish local public health allocations in shadow form by April 2012

– Including introduction of “health premium” for local authorities that tackle public health challenges among disadvantaged communities and target public health resources on those with poorest health

– Allocate local public health budget to local authorities from April 2013

• Public Health Responsibility Deal launched by March 2011

• Recruit 4,200 extra Sure Start health visitors from February 2011

– Including working with the Department for Education to ensure appropriate local joint working between health visitors and Sure Start Children’s Centres




Department of Health priority:5. Reform social care

• Publish an update of the carers strategy, including the intention to increase spending each year to increase the number of breaks for carers by November 2010

• White Paper on social care to be published by December 2011




Department of Health:Summary of legislative changes


– Health Bill due December 2010

• White Papers:

– Health White Paper (July 2010) – Public Health White Paper due December 2010

• Green Papers:

– None




Department for Work and Pensions Impact on Children and Young People Services




Department for Work and Pensions priorities

1. Reform the welfare system

2. Get Britain working

3. Help tackle the causes of poverty

4. Achieve disability equality




Department for Work and Pensions priority:1. Reform the welfare system

• Publish a White Paper on plans to introduce the Universal Credit in November 2010

- Begin national implementation from October 2013

• Publish the Welfare Reform Bill in January 2011

• Prepare local authorities for implementation of housing benefit policy changes by April 2011

• Develop implementation plan for household cap so that no workless family can receive more in welfare than median after tax earnings for working households by December 2011

• Work with the Department for Communities and Local Government to develop implementation plan for localising Council Tax Benefit by April 2011




Department for Work and Pensions priority:2. Get Britain working

• Employers and voluntary organisations begin to offer work experience placements to young unemployed people by March 2011

• Work with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to ensure that Jobcentre Plus, Work Programme providers, further education colleges and other training providers collaborate so that people on active benefits have access to training to find and keep work, and progress once in work

• Develop options, working with the Ministry of Justice, to reduce reoffending giving employment support to offenders and ex-offenders




Department for Work and Pensions priority:3. Help tackle the causes of poverty

• Support more lone parents into work:

– Move lone parents who are capable of work whose youngest child is 7 or over onto Jobseeker’s Allowance by April 2011, and to extend to those lone parents whose youngest child is 5 or over by July 2012

• Develop a new child poverty strategy, taking account of the conclusions of the Field Review, working with HM Treasury and the Department for Education by March 2011

• Implement revised strategy to continue amendments to the child maintenance system from July 2012




• Ensure carers receive the right employment support, working with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to extend flexible working opportunities, and support into work those who wish to seek paid employment by April 2011

• Reform Disability Living Allowance (DLA)

– Introduce the Welfare Reform Bill to reform DLA by January 2011

– Draft secondary legislation to reform DLA and lay it before Parliament from January 2012

Department for Work and Pensions priority:4. Achieve disability equality




Department for Work and Pensions:Summary of legislative changes


– Welfare Reform Bill due in January 2011

• White Papers:

– Welfare Reform White Paper due in November 2010

• Green Papers:




Cabinet OfficeImpact on Children and Young People Services




Cabinet Office priorities

1. Drive efficiency and effectiveness in government

2. Increase transparency in the public sector

3. Reform our political and constitutional system

4. Build the Big Society

5. Promote social mobility




• Publish plans in the Public Service Reform White Paper to expand employee ownership of public services by January 2011

• Implement a new cross-Government digital engagement strategy, including channel shift and website decommissioning, by June 2011

• Abolishing or merge all public bodies except those that pass one of three (demonstrating that they are necessary for transparency, impartiality or because they undertake a technical function) by January 2012

Cabinet Office priority:1. Drive efficiency and effectiveness in

government




Cabinet Office:Summary of legislative changes


– Public Bodies Bill (November 2010)

• White Papers:

– Public Service Reform White Paper due in January 2011

• Green Papers:

– None

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