LBB Children and Young People Services Portfolio Plan for 2011-12

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Appendix C A summary of the Government Reform Agenda − ensuring sufficiency of school places and a good supply of strong schools − continued coordination and oversight of the admissions system − providing challenge to the performance of any local school and support to maintained schools below the floor standards − responsibility for supporting vulnerable children, including those with special educational needs and disabilities, looked after children and those outside mainstream education The Education Bill provides the legislation for the Government to implement the changes required by the White Paper. Tickell Review of the Early Years Foundation Stage The Tickell Review of the Early Years Foundation Stage was published in March 2011. The review recommends the following reforms to the current framework: • significantly reducing the number of early learning goals that children are assessed against at age five from 69 to 17 • giving parents a summary of their child’s development, alongside the health visitor check at the age of two, to help identify any early problems or special educational needs • implementing a new focus on three prime areas: personal, social and emotional development; communication and language; and physical development • giving a greater emphasis on making sure children have basic social, emotional communication and language skills • providing a stronger link between the EYFS and what is expected of children in Key Stage 1 • reducing levels of bureaucracy, including scrapping written risk assessments for nursery trips and outings • ensuring that all early years practitioners have at least a level 3 qualification (which is equivalent to A level) • ensuring that Ofsted are clearer on what is required of settings when they are inspected to help reduce high levels of paperwork In response to the Review, the Government launched a consultation on changes to the EYFS in July 2011. The changes to the EYFS will then come into force from September 2012. The Wolf Review of Vocational Education for 14- to 19-year-olds The Wolf Review of Vocational Education was published in March 2011. It makes a number of recommendations to reform education for 14- to 19- year-olds, which were all accepted by the Government in May 2011, including: • ensuring that all young people study Maths and English to age 18 or until they get a good qualification in those subjects • reforming league tables and funding rules • consulting with employers, schools, colleges, universities and Ofqual during the summer of 2011 to define the criteria that the best vocational qualifications must meet • introducing a new measure to assess the performance of both higherand lower-attaining pupils • considering paying businesses which take young people on to highquality apprenticeships • simplifying apprenticeships to make them easier to offer 34
Appendix C A summary of the Government Reform Agenda Child Protection and Safeguarding Reform Programme Legislation Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill was introduced into the Houses of Parliament in June 2011. The Bill seeks to implement the legislative proposals in the Ministry of Justice Green Paper, Breaking the Cycle: Effective Punishment, Rehabilitation and Sentencing of Offending, and the Government’s response. The key elements of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill include: • making provision to ensure that, where a person aged under 18 has to be remanded into custody, in most cases they would be remanded into local authority accommodation • introducing a penalty notice with an education option and provision for conditional cautions to be given without the need to refer the case to the relevant prosecutor Policy changes Munro Review of Child Protection A Child-Centred System, the final report from the Review of Child Protection conducted by Professor Eileen Munro was published in May 2011. It makes 15 recommendations which cover the following key areas: • the removal of specific statutory requirements for completing assessments within often artificial set timescales, so that professionals can give equal weight to helping children, young people, and families, as well as assessing their problems • freeing local services from targets, national IT systems and nationally prescribed ways of working so they can re-design services that are informed by research and feedback from children and families, and that pay more attention to the impact on children’s safety and welfare • a change of approach to Serious Case Reviews (SCRs) by having a stronger focus on understanding the underlying issues that made professionals behave the way they did and what prevented them from being able properly to help and protect children • the introduction of a duty on all local services to coordinate an early offer of help to families who do not meet the criteria for social care services, to address problems before they escalate to child protection issues • experienced social workers should be kept on the frontline even when they become managers so that their experience and skills are not lost • the expertise and status of the social work profession should be improved with continual professional development that focuses on the skills that are needed in child protection • each local authority should designate a Principal Child and Family Social Worker to report the views and experiences of the front line to all levels of management and at national level, a Chief Social Worker should be established to advise the Government on social work practice The Government will develop a full response to Professor Munro’s recommendations during July 2011. Offending Green Paper Breaking the Cycle: Effective Punishment, Rehabilitation and Sentencing of Offending, the Offending Green Paper was published in December 2010 with the Government’s response published in June 2011. The Government’s response sets out a number of changes that impact on children and young people, including: • establishing guidance and minimum standards for Youth Offending Teams for undertaking more restorative justice practices, both pre– and postsentence • replacing the current youth out-of-court disposals with a system of youth cautions and youth conditional cautions, and promote informal restorative disposals 35
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