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

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Appendix C A summary of the Government Reform Agenda including: • the Government should publicly accept the core message of Early Intervention and ensure that Early Intervention plays a more central part in UK policy and practice. • the Government should pull together the best and most rigorously proven Early Intervention programmes and the Government should encourage 15 local Early Intervention Places to pioneer the programmes • the Government should promote an independent Early Intervention Foundation, which will be independently funded, to motivate those in the Early Intervention sector • the Government should make sure that all children have the social and emotional capability to be ‘school ready’ at five, including: 38 − a long-term plan to give all vulnerable first-time mothers who meet the criteria and want it, access to Family Nurse Partnerships − working up a national parenting campaign as part of the Big Society − high-quality, benchmarked pre-school education for 2-, 3- and 4-yearolds as part of a 0–5 Foundation Stage − a more coherent series of assessments for the 0–5s to detect and resolve social and emotional difficulties as early as possible The Allen Independent Review of Early Intervention published its second report, Early Intervention: Smarty Investment, Massive Savings, in July 2011. The report set out a range of recommendations to fund the proposals set out within the first report. The key recommendations are that: • Government sets out as a policy objective that all babies, children and young people should have the social and emotional bedrock essential for their future development and their ability to make effective life choices • Government leadership and co-ordination must improve, not least through an Early Intervention Task and Finish Group made up of experts from across Government departments which will establish, measure and progress-chase Early Intervention outcomes • the expected “Families and the Foundation Stage” statement must include regular and purposeful assessments for the 0-5s to help spot and correct dysfunction early • an independent Early Intervention Foundation is set up to promote Early Intervention, spread best evidence based policies and complement the work being done inside Government • the Prime Minister should challenge private, local and philanthropic sources to co-fund with government a £20 million endowment to sustain the Foundation • the Government must be more creative in bringing additional non-government funding to investment in Early Intervention and that payment by results through outcome based contracts is promoted and funded from within existing budgets • as part of building a social finance market the Government should establish an ‘Early Intervention Fund’ or Funds to raise around £200 million of private investment • HM Treasury should commission a thorough review of Early Intervention growth incentives ahead of the 2012 Budget Child Poverty Strategy A New Approach to Child Poverty: Tackling the Causes of Disadvantage and Transforming Families’ Lives, the Government’s revised Child Poverty Strategy was published in April 2011. It sets out the Government’s approach to tackling poverty up to 2020 by focusing on improving the life chances of the most disadvantaged children, and it sits alongside the Government’s broader Social Mobility Strategy and the Field Review on Poverty and Life Chances. The Strategy provides a focus on: • Ensuring that families who are in work are supported to work themselves out of poverty • Improving children’s future life chances by intervening early to improve the development and attainment of disadvantaged children and young people throughout their transition to adulthood
Appendix C A summary of the Government Reform Agenda • Delivering services as close to the family as possible The Strategy supports the Government to end child poverty by 2020. Field Review on Poverty and Life Chances The Foundation Years: preventing poor children becoming poor adults, the Field Review on Poverty and Life Chances was published in December 2010. It provides proposals to support the Government to develop a new strategy to meet the target of abolishing child poverty by 2020. The Review proposes that: • national and local government should give greater prominence to the earliest years in life, from pregnancy to age five, and suggests adopting the term Foundation Years, covering the period from the womb to five • the Foundation Years should become the first pillar of a new tripartite education system: the Foundation Years leading to school years leading to further, higher and continuing education • the single objective of the Foundation Years will be to improve the life chances of poor children • the Government should establish a set of Life Chances Indicators The review formed part of the research and development into the Government’s Child Poverty Strategy. Housing Benefit and Local Housing Allowances Through the Government’s “Emergency Budget” in June 2010, the Government has committed to: • restricting Local Housing Allowance (LHA) to a maximum of four bedrooms for new and existing claimants instead of the current maximum of 5 bedrooms • capping the weekly LHA to the lower thirtieth percentile of rents of the local area instead of the current 50th percentile • linking the increases in Local Housing Allowance rates with the Consumer Price Index • implementing staged increases in the rates of non-dependant deductions in the income-related benefits • reducing the Housing Benefit of people who have been on Jobseeker's Allowance for 12 months or more by 10% The Finance Act 2011 and the Welfare Reform Bill provide the legislation for the Government to implement the changes required . Social Mobility Strategy Opening Doors, Breaking Barriers, the Government’s Social Mobility Strategy was published in April 2011. It focuses on increasing social mobility for the most disadvantaged children and young people, and families. It aims to improve life chances at every stage of life with specific measures to improve social mobility in the following areas: • Foundation Years - the strategy focuses on improving support during the Foundation years including 15 hours of pre-school education for the most disadvantaged 2 year olds, recruiting more Health Visitors, and supporting good parenting • School Years - the strategy focuses on narrowing the attainment gap through the school reform programme and increasing the level of support for the most disadvantaged children and young people through the Pupil Premium • Transition Years - the strategy focuses on increasing the school leaving age and the number of Apprenticeships available for young people, and reforming higher education funding Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Green Paper Support and aspiration: A new approach to special educational needs and disability, the Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Green Paper was published in March 2011. 39
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