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Barnsley in Depth Children’s and Young People’s Report – 2008/09 Information18 receive the sponsored childminding service and 72 have short breaks orday care on a residential basis. The numbers of children receiving shortbreaks and the type of provision is increasing due to additional investmentfrom the Aiming High for Disabled Children programme.5.3.5 Common Assessment FrameworkThe Common Assessment Framework (CAF) is a central part of theGovernment’s plan to make sure that different services work together tosupport children and young people by:• Making sure that children and young people who have ‘additionalneeds’ are identified as early as possible;• Reducing the number of assessments children and young people mightneed to undergo;• Improving the quality of assessments across all services for childrenand young people;• Supporting any referrals between different services that are necessaryabout children and young people.The Common Assessment Framework is also becoming embedded inpractice and the number of Common Assessments completed on youngpeople is 566 for 2008-09, which demonstrates a continuing growth overprevious years (374 in 2007/8 and 159 in 2006/7). All newborns in Barnsleyhave a pre CAF assessment by midwife. 356 staff across the borough weretrained during 2008/9 in completion of the assessments and this notablyincludes staff from adult services. Again this demonstrates advances onprevious years (470 in 2007/8 and 218 in 2006/7).The growth in the use of CAF increases the assurance that young people andtheir families are directed to the appropriate prevention agencies and sourcesof support, advice and guidance, and this is reflected in a reduction ofreferrals to social care. The “Team Around the Child” process ensures theinvolvement of all relevant agencies in a holistic manner.5.4 Disabled Children’s ServiceThe Disabled Children's Service includes the Disabled Children’s Social WorkTeam, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Speech and LanguageTherapists. In addition, there are two residential short break units, Keresforthand Summerwell.The service supports children and young people with a learning or physicaldisability, sensory impairment and children with an autistic spectrumcondition.At any time, the Disabled Children's Social Work Team work withapproximately 200 children from across the Borough providing social worksupport. They work closely with other agencies and services. The team- 61 -
Barnsley in Depth Children’s and Young People’s Report – 2008/09 Informationassess what types of support disabled children and their families may need.This can include information, home support, or short breaks provided, forexample, by a direct payment, child-minder support to access play and leisureopportunities or overnight short breaks at Summerwell or Keresforth.Summerwell Resource Centre and Keresforth Children’s Unit provided thefollowing services in 2008/09.Figure 5.4.1 Number of Children Accessing Disabled Children's ServiceNumber of childrenaccessing serviceOvernight staysprovided over 12 monthperiodDay care sessionsprovided over 12 monthperiodKeresforth Children’sUnit29 1,065 60Summerwell Children’sUnit62 1,644 44Source: Disabled Children ServiceAlongside use of Summerwell Resource Centre and Keresforth Children’sUnit:• 8 children were cared for full-time on a residential basis;• 16 children were cared for full-time by foster carers;• 37 children had a family support worker;• 4 children had short breaks with a foster carer;• 43 children received receive a direct payment to arrange their owncare/services (an increase from 30 in 2007/8);• 21 children had care packages from an independent agency;• 18 children received the sponsored childminding service.Each year the Disabled Children's Team, in conjunction with other agenciesruns a Summer “Fun Club”. In 2008, over 100 children accessed this service.In May 2007, the government published the Aiming High for Disabled Childrenprogramme which sets out how services should be working together toimprove outcomes for disabled children by providing better and timely supportto families. Additional funding has been made available to support a range ofimprovements; this includes better and more short breaks, access to childcare for working parents of disabled children, participation through parentsgroups and forums and improved transition for disabled young people to adultservices.Alongside the substantial funding for the programme the Government hasintroduced measures to make the system work better for disabled children,young people and their families. Key to the system transformation is the CoreOffer and the Disabled Children's National Indicator. The Core Offer sets out anational statement of expectations for how disabled children and their familieswill be informed and involved as their needs are assessed and the necessaryservices are delivered. The Core Offer covers:- 62 -
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