Where is the common ground between Children and Young Peoples Services (CYPS) and

Museums, Libraries and Archives (MLAs)?

Section 10 Children Act 2004

Published in December 2007, The Children’s Plan has set high expectations for Children’s Trusts to:

• deliver measurable improvements for all children and young people;

• have in place by 2010 consistent, high quality arrangements to provide identification; and

• provide early intervention for all children and young people who need additional help.

The Children’s Plan calls on all children’s services to be “more ambitious about improving outcomes

for children and young people”

The Children’s Plan takes Every Child Matters implementation forward to 2011 and beyond Children’s Plan 2020 goals

Every Child Matters Outcomes and Aims

• Enhance well-being particularly at transition points.

• Improve child health, and reduce proportion of obese/ overweight children

•Parents satisfied with the information & support.

• Children ready for schools & 90% developing well at Foundation stage

• Every child ready for secondary school (90% achieving in maths and English) by age 11

• Every young person ready for adulthood ( 90% 5 GCSEs by 17 & 90% 2 A-level by 19)

• All young people participating in positive activities.

• Significantly reduced number of young offenders by 2020

•Child poverty halved by 2010 and eradicated by 2020

• Employers satisfied with young people’s readiness for work

Stay Safe Enjoy and AchieveMake a Positive Contribution

Achieve Economic Well-being

Be Healthy

Safe from maltreatment, neglect, violence & sexual exploitation

Ready for schoolEngage in decision making and support the community & environment

Engage in further education, employment or training on leaving school

Physically healthy

Safe from accidental injury & death

Attend & enjoy schoolEngage in law-abiding & positive behaviour in and out of school

Ready for employmentMentally & emotionallyhealthy

Safe from bullying & discrimination

Achieve stretching national educational standards at primary school

Develop positive relationships and choose not to bully & discriminate

Live in decent homes & sustainable communities

Sexually healthy

Safe from crime & anti-social behaviour in and out of school

Achieve personal & social development & enjoy recreation

Develop self-confidence & successfully deal with significant life changes & challenges

Access to transport & material goods

Healthy lifestyles

Have security, stability and are cared for

Achieve stretching national educational standards at secondary school

Develop enterprising behaviour

Live in households free from low income

Choose not to take illegal drugs

Like other government targets, these are cascaded to local level through Public Service Agreements (PSAs), Departmental Strategic Objectives (DSOs) and National Indicators (NIs)

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PSA 12 - Improve the

health and well–being of

children and young people

PSA 13 - Improve the safety of children and young people

PSA 10 - Raise the educational achievement of all children and young People

PSA 11 - Narrow the gap in educational achievement between disadvantages children and their peers

PSA 14 - Increase the number of children and young people on the path of success

Achieve Economic Well-being

PSA 25 - Reduce the harm

caused by alcohol and drugs

PSA21 - Build more

cohesive, empowered and

active communities

PSA 2 - Improve the skills of the population

PSA 9 - Halve the number of

children in poverty by 2010

and eradicated by 2020

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DSO 2 - Safeguard the young and vulnerable

DSO 4 - Achieve world

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DSO 5 - Young people participating and achieving potential

DSO 6- Young people on the path to success

Examples of the 16 statutory targets for education and early years

•NI 50 - Emotional health and well-being: children and young people user perception

•NI 56 - obesity among primary school age children in year 6.

•NI 112- under 18 conception rate

•NI 69 - percentage of children who have experienced bullying

•NI 111 - Reduce number of first time entrants to the criminal justice system

•PSA 13 – Preventable child deaths

•NI 75- Proportion of pupils

achieving 5 or more A-C

GCSEs including English &

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•NI 87 - Secondary school

persistent absence rate

•NI 102- Achievement gap

between FSM pupils &

peers at Key Stages 2 & 4

•NI 85 - Post-16

participation in physical

sciences ( A-level)

•NI 90 - Take up of 14-19

learning diplomas

•NI 110 - More participation

in positive activities

•NI 117 - 16-18 years old who are not in education , employment or training (NEET)

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The New Local Performance FrameworkThe Local Government White Paper Strong and Prosperous Communities, published in October 2006 reforms the relationship between central Government and local government and its partners through a new, more streamlined, local performance framework. There are five key elements to the new framework:

• A National Indicator Set (NIS) of 198 outcome focussed indicators for local government to deliver (alone or in partnership), replacing all existing indicator sets including PAF and BVPIs,

• New, statutory Local Area Agreements (LAAs) to set out how local and national priorities will be delivered.  Each LAA will contain ’up to 35’ targets agreed with Government, drawn from the NIS,

• A new risk-based monitoring system – Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA) – to replace existing inspection regime (CPA, JARs, APA) from 2009-10,

• Support and challenge for LAs and partners, established by the new National Improvement & Efficiency Strategy (NIES),

• More funding freedoms – many grants paid on an un-ring fenced basis through Formula Grant or the new Area Based Grant. There will be a strong presumption against ring fenced grants.

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National Indicator Target categories• The NI targets are grouped into seven blocks:-

– Stronger Communities (NI 1 to NI 14)– Safer Communities (NI 15 to NI 49)– Children and Young People (C&YP) (NI 50 to NI 118) –

organised by the ECM 5 key outcomes– Adult health and wellbeing (NI 119 to NI 139)– Tackling exclusion and promoting equality (NI 140 to NI

150)– Local economy (NI 151 to NI 184)– Environmental sustainability (NI 185 to NI 198)

• Local authorities do however publish and organise the targets to give priority to their own local initiatives or themes e.g. child poverty. Targets may therefore be categorised under these themes, as there is no requirement to use the blocks above.

Museums libraries and archives offer…

Museums• End of term school trips• Learning about history: dressing as Victorians• Not much beyond the curriculum

Libraries• Every school has one• CYP can access information to help with homework

Archives• Dry and dusty records• Old documents not relevant to today

Or do they?Every Child Matters Outcomes and Aims

Stay Safe Enjoy and AchieveMake a Positive Contribution

Achieve Economic Well-being

Be Healthy

Libraries: safe, neutral environments

Libraries: summer reading challenge- bridging the fall in attainment

Museums: young volunteers

M, L and A: work placements and volunteer opportunities

Museums: what do other cultures and nationalities eat?

Archives: non-judgemental spaces

Libraries: wriggly readers pre-school sessions

Libraries: join a peer-led reading group

Libraries: free access to the internet and career information

Libraries: find out about local opportunities to join clubs, try new activities

Museums: often free, open to all

Museums: self-directed learning about many subjects and topics

M, L, A: meet lots of different people from across the community

M, L, A: creative inspiration and new ideas

Archives: learn about yourself, where you come from, your identity

How are Local Authority decisions made about investment and targets?

Commissioning Cycle

Children's Trusts and the Children and Young People's Plans

The local Children's Trust oversees the strategic coordination and overarching strategy for improving the five Every Child

Matters outcomes for children, young people and their families

The Children’s Trust, through the engagement of partners, agrees how the whole pattern of local services best fits together to

meet local need.

It will drive the process of identifying improvement priorities for children and young people and feed these into the wider

Local Strategic Partnership which will negotiate Local Area Agreement (LAA) priorities and improvement targets

with central Government (through Government Offices).

Culture in Local Area Agreements

NI 1 Cohesion

NI 6 Participation in Volunteering

NI 7 Environment for a thriving 3rd Sector

NI 8 Adult Participation in Sport

NI 9 Use of Public Libraries

NI 10 Visits to Museums or Galleries

NI 11 Engagement in the Arts

NI 57 Children and Young People’s Participation in high quality PE/ Sport

NI 110 Young People’s participation in positive activities

Culture in LAAs: a regional picture

NI 1 Cohesion Leicester, Nottingham

NI 6 Volunteering Derby, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northants

NI 7 Thriving 3rd Sector Derbyshire, Northants, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire

NI 8 Adult Participation in Sport All but Leicester (under NI1)

NI 9 Use of Public Libraries Derby, Derbyshire, Northants, Rutland

NI 10 Visits to Museums/ Galleries Rutland

NI 11 Engagement in the Arts Lincolnshire, Northants, Rutland

NI 57 CYP PE/ Sport Derby, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Rutland

NI 110 YP positive activities Derby, Derbyshire, Leicester, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Rutland

Culture in LAAs: a national picture

Out of 150 local authorities in England

NI 9 Use of Public Libraries Ten selected (EM= 4)

NI 10 Visits to Museums/ Galleries Two selected (EM= 1)

NI 11 Engagement in the Arts 24 selected (EM= 3)

NI 57 CYP PE/ Sport 80 selected (EM= 8)

NI 110 YP positive activities 77 selected (EM= 6)

Useful website: www.idea.gov.uk

But what about these?

Selected by at least seven of our local authorities

NI 1 % of people who believe people from different backgrounds get on well together in their local area

NI 117 16-18 year olds who are not in education, employment or training

NI 56 Obesity in primary school aged children in year 6

NI 112 Under 18 conception rate

How can museums, libraries and archives contribute?

“Fasten your seat belts, the turbulence has scarcely begun…

…we are facing an explosionof societal diversity and complexity

hundreds of times greater than we nowexperience or can yet imagine. If we think to

perpetuate the old ways, we shouldtry to recall the last time evolution

rang our number toconsent”

The 21st Century opportunity?

CYPs and MLAs working in

partnership to make it happen