Mission All agencies have an Early Help Strategic Lead to drive forward their local Early Help offer which will be explicit within policies, commissioning processes, service action plans and governance structures. Shift the culture across agencies to ensure Early Help is prioritised Core membership for this Safeguarding Board members theme A strategic leads forum (to be established) Recruitment policies and Commissioning specs and Help is referenced in Identifying an Early Help Work streams management processes monitoring Service Action Plans strategic lead Additional membership Commissioners of services Organisations will be clear Safeguarding and the role of Organisations respond to gaps A strategic lead is in with which job roles will use Early Early Help is included in all in their EH responses and sufficient authority to promote Objectives Help and undertake the Lead relevant service tender processes reflect in their action plans an Early Help culture and (What do we want to Professional role Local Service Level Agreements Governance arrangements ensure that all workers are do/achieve?) For these staff, recruitment, are supported by performance support challenge and scrutiny aware of Early Help and how it induction and supervision will indicators of Early Help practice relates to their role reference Early Help Outcomes Staff are confident in using the Strategic lead sets the vision of (What impact do we want Services are commissioned to EH process EH in organisation and ensure they comply with and this to have for Improved quality of offers challenge to promote implement EH processes assessments use of Early Help and practice CYP/professionals?) Quality Assurance Tools Job descriptions and Person Specs reference strategy and Tender documents Reports identify increased required competencies Reporting on KPIs as part of Service Action plans diversity of Lead Professional Measurement Increased numbers of contract monitoring Reports from internal service role. Tools plans in Early Help Help Quality assurance Quality Assurance processes Complete list of strategic assessments processes across all Bolton services Early Help process close due to positive outcomes achieved for families
Mission All agencies have an Early Help Strategic Lead to drive forward their local Early Help offer which will be explicit within policies, commissioning processes, service action plans and governance structures. Shift the culture across agencies to ensure Early Help is prioritised Core membership for this theme Safeguarding Board members A strategic leads forum (to be established) Work streams Recruitment policies and management processes Commissioning specs and monitoring Help is referenced in Service Action Plans Identifying an Early Help strategic lead Additional membership Commissioners of services Objectives (What do we want to do/achieve?) Organisations will be clear which job roles will use Early Help and undertake the Lead Professional role For these staff, recruitment, induction and supervision will reference Early Help Safeguarding and the role of Early Help is included in all relevant service tender processes Local Service Level Agreements are supported by performance indicators Organisations respond to gaps in their EH responses and reflect in their action plans Governance arrangements support challenge and scrutiny of Early Help practice A strategic lead is in with sufficient authority to promote an Early Help culture and ensure that all workers are aware of Early Help and how it relates to their role Outcomes (What impact do we want this to have for CYP/professionals?) Staff are confident in using the EH process Improved quality of assessments Services are commissioned to ensure they comply with and implement EH processes Strategic lead sets the vision of EH in organisation and offers challenge to promote use of Early Help and practice Measurement Tools Quality Assurance Tools Job descriptions and Person Specs reference strategy and required competencies Increased numbers of plans in Early Help assessments Early Help process close due to positive outcomes achieved for families Tender documents Reporting on KPIs as part of contract monitoring Help Quality assurance processes Service Action plans Reports from internal service Quality Assurance processes Reports identify increased diversity of Lead Professional role. Complete list of strategic across all Bolton services