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Dudley Strategy for Tackling Health Inequalities 2010-15

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EYFS Median Scores by National Deprivation Quintile <strong>Dudley</strong>2009Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q580 82 89 89 90Source DMBCThere is a difference of 10 in the median score between quintile 1, the most deprivedand quintile 5, the least deprived.Whilst there is an assessment <strong>for</strong> EYFS undertaken pre-school, there is no centralcollection of data on this so it is not possible to assess the profile <strong>for</strong> <strong>Dudley</strong> childrenat this pre-school stage.Parenting:<strong>Dudley</strong> has developed a multi-agency Parenting Support and Family Learning<strong>Strategy</strong> (<strong>Dudley</strong> Children‟s Trust, 2009) and in the development of this undertook anaudit of <strong>for</strong>mal manual-based parenting support within the Borough.The audit of parenting support was carried out and sought to find out the extent towhich practitioners had been trained in and implemented programmes at 4 levels ofsupport need:Tier 1 Universal need: prevention focused on whole population whereproblems are not obvious (67,196 dependent children)Tier 2 Need <strong>for</strong> support: problems may be beginning to show and action isneeded to prevent them worsening (24,245 children in 2008)Tier 3 Child Welfare Concern: prevention strategies required to focus onmultiple, complex and longstanding difficulties requiring individually tailoredservices (2055 children in need in June 2008)Tier 4 Protection need: prevention at this level requires clear interagencyfocus which seeks to safeguard the child/young personThe audit of parenting support offered by providers was carried out and its keyfindings were:Tier 1 - All Children‟s Centres offer a universally available parenting programme,most commonly the NCH Handling Children‟s Behaviour (Finch, 1995). Someschools also offer this programme but coverage is patchy. <strong>Dudley</strong> PCT Children‟sservices staff are trained in the Solihull Approach, as are teachers in the SpecialistEarly years Service and many Children‟s Centre staff. Some Children‟s Centres usethe Family Links Nurturing Programme. All schools were planning to offer FamilySEAL (Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning) by 2011.30

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