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Children getting access to routine dental care

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Dentist shortages in the UK

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Extend to care leavers

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policy, memory boxes and training

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Regular Children in Care Council sessions

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Regular Children in Care Council sessions

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support understanding of life story, history and care experience

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storage/ inventory for memory boxes and access during covid. Training for workforce

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training roll out and embed life story work across workforce

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16 more fostering families have been supported through this model and the children within those fostering families have had the opportunity to join a supportive community

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we have launched 2 new mockingbird constellations

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All health assessments are quality assured to ensure each has a comprehensive health plan
Performance in terms of timeliness is monitored via KPI's

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Increased number of Year 11 children in care attaining Grade 5 in English and Maths GCSEs

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recruiting & training the two new Hub home carers.

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we plan to launch a further constellation early in the New Year

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Profiling questions are captured within all assessments to provide a local health profile for Stockport

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we continue to recruit foster carers to meet our sufficiency requirements

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The Specialist LAC health team support placements when children move to ensure health needs are responded too

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improved PEPs and focused targets and ambitions linking / aligning with EHCPs

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we have continued to place children with our in house fostering provision where outcomes for children are good

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Advocacy and independent visitor service for LAC

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New 7 bed property opened in August, and continued support for care leavers by Depaul UK

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Consistently high completion of termly PEP meetings and return of documentation containing accurate educational data providing opportunities for intervention and monitoring if required

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termly completion and needing to escalate. challenges when placed OOA

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Targeted English and Maths outcomes for children in care and supported with additional tuition resulting in more Year 11's gaining Grade 5s at GCSE

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the financial crisis

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All CPR's are quality assured to ensure they are child focussed and contain the life long information needed by children re: the reasons they were adopted

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Resolution of issues, through listening to young people and supporting them. Widening their support network through IV links

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Regular Children in Care Council sessions

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Regular Children in Care Council sessions

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1. Given cared-for young people a voice. Includes contact with senior managers, elected members and other organisations.
2. Completed a Language Survey that tells those working with cared-for young people what words they should and shouldn't be using.
3. Involvement in the development of the GM House Project.
4. Involvement in events relating to cared-for young people, including the planning of these events.
5. Meeting up with other C.i.C.C from the northwest. This has allowed the young people to find out what other local authorities offer to cared-for young people. It also showed the young people that some of what Stockport offers is comparable and better with what others offer, which is a counter to the sometimes-negative views that the young people have of their experience of Stockport as the Corporate Parent.
6. New name for the group, which is something the young people wanted.
7. Life skills work during the sessions - cooking, careers / education advise, for example.
8. A space that allows the young people to talk about their hopes and fears relating to being cared-for.
9. October half-term activity day.
10. Opportunities for the young people to participate in wider 'youth voice' activities (not necessarily to do with being a cared-for young person), for example, 'Make Your Mark', UK Youth Parliament elections.

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New property took longer than expected to create

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Encouraging social workers to refer yp for IV matches

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training being delivered

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we have developed a dedicated team to assess and support all connected carers

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The overall quality of CPR's has improved with the majority graded as either 'outstanding' or 'good' at point of matching

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There is sufficient capacity within clinics to meet need.
There is a Specialist Nurse in clinic who works alongside the Consultant to provide a holistic approach

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81 of our children in care now have systemic assessments and formulations documents completed. This document is beginning to be routinely used by other professionals supporting the children.

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Linking to the new Staying Close pilot scheme to support 40 young people / year

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Promote the services to social care teams, so everyone is aware of the offer

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Increased support for retention eg £250 cost of living payment, reduced mileage claims

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all our family carers, be they foster carers or SGO carers have dedicated support

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Successful bid for Year 1 DfE funding to support care leavers

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Timely completion

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External partners: Signpost Young Carers

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External partners: Signpost Young Carers

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A comprehensive and nationally recognised quality support service for young carers and their families

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Legacy from pandemic and reintegration of children in care into larger education settings once more. Children coming into care at an older age already through their education journeys.

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recruitment of SW

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continuing increasing numbers of CIC.
Lt Stability 75% - 10% increase on 2020-21.
ST Stability decrease 12% - decrease of 1% on 2020-21

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This has provided a wealth of information and understanding to carers and schools allowing them to rethink and approach their responses and support to children differently and in a more trauma informed way

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Regular Children in Care Council sessions

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Regular Children in Care Council sessions

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1. Recruiting new members.
2. Moving on established members, who needed to move on but were anxious about the next steps.
3. Staffing the sessions.
4. Finding a more suitable venue.
5. Promoting the group.

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Recruiting the new teams to deliver the pilot scheme

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SDQ's are requested in time to inform the health assessment. Further assessments are completed with young people as part of the
RHA

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External partners: Signpost Young Carers

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External partners: Signpost Young Carers

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Linked together young people with others going through similar experiences and supported through multiple activites

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They take time (up to 6 weeks) to complete. We only have 3 members of staff on the team and a constant waiting list

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we continue to actively recruit foster carers

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Ongoing training roll out. One to one support available via allocated family finder from point of SHOBPA.

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further recruitment to the team s required

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Delivering support for 40 care leavers living independently in the community

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External partners: Signpost Young Carers

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External partners: Signpost Young Carers

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Ensuring all potential referral sources are engaged.

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Continue to support colleagues and partners to locate and use this document to 'fast track' their understanding of the children especially when new staff become involved

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All children receive an information leaflet with their appointment so they know what to expect at IHA

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Children remaining in care longer. emergency placements and limited placement option impacting on stability. impacting on sufficiency of placements and children being placed more at distance

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External partners: Signpost Young Carers

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External partners: Signpost Young Carers

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Embedding the excellent opportunities for schools to get support

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Overall timeliness for adopted children is good.

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keeping children safe if they need state care

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Ensuring young people/care leavers are priority for social care, rucksacks for young people

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we have continued to match children permanently with foster carers

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A high-quality mentoring service for care leavers, running at around 60 active matches, for a 2 year relationship.

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Rasing the profile of looked after children, care leavers and foster carer through social value processes. There have been some apprenticeships created by developers in Stockport

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11 children have been adopted between 1.4.22 - 30.6.22. A10 measure is 379 days and A2 measure is 73 days. Both below the threshold and under national averages for England.

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Regularly available for social workers (and foster carers) to access if concerned for a child or wanting some advice. These continue to be busy - looking at completing over 200 this year

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children's future has been secured in a fostering family

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Monitoring and targeting of cohorts rigorously. Matching interventions to specific needs via PEP processes with specialist English or Maths tutoring, newly introduced corporate parent mentoring scheme for Year 11's and recruiting a Virtual School post 16 advisor based at Stockport College.

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The final RHA at 17 is used to formulate a Care Leaver Summary

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A dynamic support service, offering bespoke, practical, creative and dedicated links between YP and vounteer mentors

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Allows access to support in a time sensitive way to offer advice when and where needed before difficulties become overwhelming

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capacity within the service to complete the matching process

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Increasing volunteer recruitment has required additional co-ordination staff.

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Young person is supported with health history and information at the time of transition

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Time getting these written up and on the system

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Encouraging new contracts to consider providing social value for these priority groups

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Continue to embed the service in all the new initiatives at SMBC to support vulnerable people with the cost of living challenges

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target resources to supporting children at home and prevent, where possible, the need for care.

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There has been a challenge in receiving SDQ information in time for the RHA

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More training and promotion about Social Value support that can be given to foster carers, looked after children, and care leavers for providers and contract managers.

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External partners: Stockport Advocacy- IMHA

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External partners: Stockport Advocacy- IMHA

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Advocacy service for young people accommodated on mental health wards in Stockport

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Regular Children in Care Council sessions (SK Inc)

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Regular Children in Care Council sessions (SK Inc)

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1. A more systematic plan to promote the group.
2. New members.
3. Follow-up the Language Survey - ask those who completed the survey whether they have noticed any difference in the words that are used. Send out the original survey to see whether we can get some further replies. Then make sure that those working with cared-for children & young people know what is expected from them.

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Ensure our colleagues know how and where to access these. Continue to complete training around themes coming up in consultations to ensure we are up to date with guidance

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External partners: Stockport Advocacy- IMHA

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External partners: Stockport Advocacy- IMHA

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Secured a high-quality team to support some of the most vulnerable and complex young people from around the UK

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Remained stable at 13%. Improved oversight of MFH monitoring with access to timely access data.

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It has taken longer to achieve permanence for two children with complex needs placed for adoption in this period, this will impact upon overall timeliness. Although it has taken longer to achieve permanence for these children, it is still a good outcome as families identified who can meet their identified needs.

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improved access to timely data

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External partners: Stockport Advocacy- IMHA

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External partners: Stockport Advocacy- IMHA

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Holding onto the specially-trained staff who carry out a challenging and psychologically demanding role

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Children with multiple missings and refuse return interviews

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Data can be considered to inform service requirements and provision

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improve return interviews completed within 72 hours

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Continue to recruit adopters who have the skills to parent older children, sibling groups.

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we have a comprehensive training offer to all our carrs to upskill them tt meet the needs of the children in their care

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Ongoing thinking and workforce planning around completing training (as indicated by NICE guidance) to support our CIC and their carers