AGENDA ITEM NO. 4

LAA Annual Refresh 2007/08

Changes to the Existing Document to include new mandatory indicators

All changes to be in place by 10 November 2006

Changes to PI’s, targets, interventions, funding, leads per block:

BLUE – mandatory PI

RED - information missing or needs revising

GREEN – new area developed from aspirations

STATEMENT OF COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Voluntary and Community Sector Statement of Involvement

All partners to the Cambridgeshire LAA support the need and value for full Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) engagement, participation and involvement in the Local Area Agreement partnership. The DCLG guidance notes recommend that the VCS to have a key role in the LAA in identifying, influencing and delivering local services. Guidance also suggests that a VCS presence on Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) is desirable. This statement briefly outlines how this is being delivered in Cambridgeshire.

The VCS is represented on the five district based LSPs and the LAA Reference Group and other stakeholder forums and partnerships. The strengthening of the VCS infrastructure, through the national Change Up programme, has resulted in the establishment of a county-wide VCS Consortium of agencies that provide support services to member and frontline groups; Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Voluntary Sector Infrastructure Consortium (CVSIC). The collective work of the Consortium covers Community Development and Organisational Capacity Building programmes, thus working directly with individual communities, such as parishes to facilitate parish planning and identify local needs and with the community and voluntary groups to support their long-term sustainability and representation at all levels.

The Consortium is committed to sustaining and improving the overall provision of infrastructure support to meet the diverse needs of the Voluntary and Community Sector in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough and enable effective mechanisms for the delivery of generic and specialist infrastructure services. The extensive contacts and partnerships of the Consortium should enable communication and representation through the four LAA blocks for joint working:

·  Children and Young People

·  Safer, Stronger Communities

·  Healthier Communities and Older People

·  Economic Development and Enterprise

A County-wide Compact is being developed, which sets down the principles for joint working between the statutory and voluntary sectors. A number of VCS initiatives, that draw down external funding into the County continue to contribute to this joint working, including the Rural Social and Community Programme, Change Up, Capacity Builders and Big Lottery Building and Sustaining Infrastructure Services (BASIS).

Value and contribution of VCS involvement in LAA

·  County VCS Consortium

·  Increased participation of frontline VCS groups in LAA

·  Network of frontline groups

·  Common VCS representative feedback mechanism

·  Common monitoring and evaluation standards

·  Partnership working to support VCS delivering public services

·  Effective and efficient use of expertise to avoid unnecessary duplication

Across Blocks we will include:

Rural and Social Community Programme (targets, PI’s interventions and funding)

Sport (targets, PI’s interventions and funding)

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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Funding Stream / Amount
Children’s Fund
Sure Start General Grant -
Main
Local
Teenage Pregnancy
Connexions
Extended Schools (through SF – not in SF figure)
Standards Fund (revenue – provisional)
Health Promoting Schools –
from PCTs
from SF but not in SF figure
Invest to Save
YOS: Prevention Fund
Fenland District Council
LPSA (LAA Stretch Pump Priming Grant):
Educational Attainment
Improving the achievement of Young & Vulnerable Children
TOTAL / 2006/07
£776,000
£5,340,000
£1,330,000
£155,000
£4,515,000
£831,000
£21,832,000
£75,000
£85,000
£166,000
£20,000
£1,600
£164,000
£108,880
£35,399,480 / 2007/08
Nil
£5,577,000
£1,066,000
£155,000
£831,000
£61,000
£190,000
£1,600
£7,881,600 / 2008/09
Nil
£260,000
£1,600
£261,600

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Block Lead: Gordon Jeyes, Deputy Chief Executive, Office of Children and Young People, Cambridgeshire County Council

Priorities:

1.  Improving the emotional and physical health and well being of children and young people and those responsible for their care

Performance Indicator / Target / Baseline / Year 1 / Year 2 / Year 3 / Interventions / Lead Delivery Agency
1.1 Mothers to be who quit smoking / To reduce the proportion of women who smoke throughout pregnancy by 0.5% each year from an agreed PCT boundary baseline / (2004/05)
S Cambs 8.9% / 7.9% / 7.4% / 6.9% / Family support in early years focussing particularly on a countywide approach to the ante-natal preventative pathway; delivery of the smoking cessation plan / PCT
Lead Person:
C City 12.4% / 11.4% / 10.9% / 10.4%
E Cambs & Fenland 12.7% / 11.7% / 11.2% / 10.7%
Hunts 19.5% / 18.5% / 18% / 17.5%
1.2 Breast feeding initiations / To increase by 2 percentage points per year the breast feeding initiations from a countywide baseline (excluding Peterborough) with a focus on disadvantaged areas / (2004/05)
77% / 81% / 83% / 85% / Action plans through work with maternity units, Sure Start and Children’s Centres / PCT
Lead Person:
1.3 Incidence of obesity among children under 11 / To halt the year on year rise in childhood obesity / Local baseline and targets to be established / To develop a county wide action plan with local variations to tackle childhood obesity: Sure Start LDPs; delivery of Health Promoting Schools programme; delivery of play, sports, arts and culture strategies / PCT
Lead Person:
1.4 Teenage conception rate
(BVPI 197) / To reduce by 45% (by 2009) the teenage conception rate (under 18 year olds) per 1,000 population aged 15-17 years in Fenland, North Cambridge and Huntingdonshire / 1998
Fenland 54.7 / 36.2% / 34.2% / 32.1% / Improving accessibility of sexual health advice services through ensuring young people have high quality information in appropriate media; access to trained professional who can provide guidance and sign posting to appropriate services; develop an action plan for the introduction of condom distribution schemes / Teenage Pregnancy Partnership Board
Lead Person: Brian Gale, Director of Inclusion (Cambridgeshire County Council)
Cambridge 33.6% / 22.3% / 21% / 19.7%
Hunts 30.1% / 19.9% / 18.8% / 17.7%
1.5 Activity or establishment of CAMH Services
(CF/A70 once agreed) / To achieve a 10% year on year growth in activity or establishment of CAMH Services / Awaiting agreement of local baseline using new PI definition from CSCI/DfES/DH / Develop multi agency behaviour services in each Area of the trust to support non specialist CAMH service referrals; 24 hour cover to meet the needs of children and young people with need of urgent psychiatric assessment / CAMHS
Lead Person: Mary Hanna

Cross-reference:

·  Healthy Communities 1: Support healthy lifestyles and prevent disease

·  Healthy Communities 2: Improve access to services which support healthy lifestyles

2.  Raising the aspirations of young people to improve their employment and life prospects

Performance Indicator / Target / Baseline / Year 1 / Year 2 / Year 3 / Interventions / Lead Delivery Agency
2.1 Percentage of 16-18 year olds not in education, employment or training / Cambridgeshire County Council (CCC)
Lead Person:
2.2 Percentage of 16-18 year olds engaging in education, employment or training (EET) / i) Increase to 88% the proportion of 16-18 year olds in Fenland who continue in EET / 87.2%
(2004) / 87.5% / 87.7% / 88% / Identify target schools that have high levels of NEET; implement 14-19 curriculum to sustain engagement and increase attainment / CCC
Lead Person:
ii) Increase to 70% the proportion of 16-18 year olds leaving PRUs who continue in EET (excluding young people who were dual registered at a PRU and mainstream secondary school) / 51.1%
(2004) / 57.4% / 63.7% / 70% / Reviewing curriculum offer at PRUs; providing appropriate support to individual young people to help them achieve / CCC
Lead Person:
2.3  (BVPI 161)
* Targets published in Cambridgeshire’s BVPP 2005/06) / iii) Increase to 95% the proportion of young people looked after at age 16+ who were in EET at age 19 (the ratio of percentage of young people looked after in EET to percentage of young people in population in EET) / 30.6%
(2004) / 95%* / 95%* / 95%* / Providing appropriate support to individual young people to help them achieve; ensuring effective partnership working / CCC
Lead Person:

Cross-reference:

·  Healthy Communities 2: Improve access to services which support healthy lifestyles

·  Economic Development and Enterprise 3: Developing the skills base to support the regional and local economy

3. Developing supportive communities which provide opportunities for children and young people to participate fully

Performance Indicator / Target / Baseline / Year 1 / Year 2 / Year 3 / Interventions / Lead Delivery Agency
3.1 Children and young people reporting they are afraid of going to school because of bullying
Question 61 / Reduce by 10% the percentage of young people feeling afraid of going to school because of bullying / Yr 8 28.4%
Yr 10
20.7%
(2004 SHEU HRBQ Survey) / Yr 8
27%
Yr 10
19.7% / N/A / Yr 8
25.6%
Yr 10
18.6% / Promotion of local and national bullying initiatives; supporting individual cases and training for headteachers/senior managers and governors;
Develop bullying strategies in response to the views and needs of young people as expressed in ‘Getting It Right’ consultation October 05 / CCC
Lead Person:
3.2 Young people reporting that they exercise hard at least 3 times a week
Question 84 / Increase by 5% (by 2009) the percentage of young people answering that they had exercised hard at least three times a week / Yr 8
48.1%
Yr 10
39.6%
SHEU
Survey
2004 / Yr 8
49.3%
Yr 10
40.6% / N/A / Yr 8
50.5%
Yr 10
41.6% / Delivering physical activity strategies in each District; delivery of sports programmes in village colleges / CCC
Cambridge and Peterborough Sports Partnership
Lead Persons:

Cross-reference:

·  Children and Young People 4: Better outcomes for children looked after by the local authority

·  Safer and Stronger Communities 7: Services and information accessible to all

4.  Better outcomes for children looked after by the local authority

Performance Indicator / Target / Baseline / Year 1 / Year 2 / Interventions / Lead Delivery Agency
4.1 The attainment of young people leaving care aged 16+
(BVPI 50) / Increasing to 77% (by 2009) the proportion of young people leaving care aged 16 or over with at least 1 GCSE A* - G or GNVQ / 51.1%
(Summer 2004 results) / 77% / 77% / 77% / Close monitoring of attendance and performance via ESLAC and
intervening where necessary
by Assigned Inspector / CCC
Lead Person:
4.2 Offending rates for children aged 10 or over looked after continuously for at least 12 months
(PAF C18) / Reduce to 2% (by 2009) the percentage of children looked after aged 10 or over given a final warning or reprimand / 4.8%
(2004/05) / 2.0% / 2.0% / 2.0% / Targeted approaches for children looked after at risk of being given a final warning or reprimand, in line with Prevention Strategy of the Youth Offending Service / CCC
Lead Person: Tom Jefford
4.3 Health assessments and dental check-ups for looked after children
(PAF C19) / Increase to 95% (by 2009) the percentage of children looked after who had their teeth checked by a dentist and had an annual health assessment / 66.5%
(2004/05) / 95% / 95% / 95% / Agreements with foster carers and residential units emphasise responsibility to encourage children to attend dental appointments and ensure that details of appointments are properly recorded; ensuring proper systems are in place; information about dental and health assessments must be recorded on LAC review / CCC
Lead Person: Elaine Petch

Cross-reference:

·  Children and Young People 2: Raising the aspirations of young people to improve their employment and life prospects

·  Children and Young People 3: Developing supportive communities which provide opportunities for children and young people to participate fully

5.  Raising the educational performance for all young people

Performance Indicator / Target / Baseline / Year 1 / Year 2 / Year 3 / Interventions / Lead Delivery Agency
5.1 Attainment of children of i) Traveller; ii) Bangladeshi & iii) Pakistani heritage at KS2 Maths and English / i) Increase the percentage of Traveller children attaining Level 4 or above in
KS2 Maths to 70% and in
KS2 English to 65% in the 2008 tests (average performance of both Irish Travellers & Gypsy/Roma) / 2003/04
Maths
50%
English
30.8% / Average performance of both Irish Travellers & Gypsy/Rome- based on KS1 performance of cohort taking KS2 tests in 2008 as agreed with DfES* / Maths
70%
English
65% / Dissemination and implementation of county strategy for raising attainment of BME children and young people; work in partnership with School Improvement Teams and SIRT to improve the use of data for target setting at school and LA level / CCC
Lead Person: Bethan Rees
* Although not measured under the LAA the planned interventions will apply to all cohorts so the impact of the interventions will be wider than detailed here.
5.2 Attainment of children of i) Traveller; ii) Bangladeshi & iii) Pakistani heritage at KS2 Maths and English / ii) Increase the percentage of Bangladeshi children attaining Level 4 or above in KS2 Maths to 73% and in
KS2 English to 70% in the 2008 tests / 2003/04
Maths
56.7%
English
56.7% / Targets based on KS1 performance of cohort taking KS2 tests in 2008 as agreed with DfES* / Maths
73%
English
70% / As above / CCC
Lead Person:
* Although not measured under the LAA the planned interventions will apply to all cohorts so the impact of the interventions will be wider than detailed here.
5.3 Attainment of children of i) Traveller; ii) Bangladeshi & iii) Pakistani heritage at KS2 Maths and English / iii) Increase the percentage of Pakistani children attaining Level 4 or above in KS2 Maths to 78% and in
KS2 English to 74% in the 2008 tests / 2003/04
Maths
66.7%
English
77.8% / Targets based on KS1 performance of cohort taking KS2 tests in 2008 as agreed with DfES* / Maths
74%
English
78% / As above / CCC
Lead Person:
* Although not measured under the LAA the planned interventions will apply to all cohorts so the impact of the interventions will be wider than detailed here.

Cross-reference: