Best Start in Life
Will deliver an Early Years' Strategy encompassing; promoting attachment and language development, improving targeted and preventative support for vulnerable parents, introducing a singular Early Years' Assessment and improving/creating more effective Early Years' services, roles and integrated working - to ensure that all children are school-ready.
A Good Education for All
Will co-develop a holistic approach to supporting children in school and at home - operating a strengths based behaviour approach supporting inclusion for vulnerable and/or disadvantaged pupils (including those with Special Educational Needs - SEN). To include delivering robust school improvement mechanisms, developing a strengths-based trauma-informed behaviour support framework, co-producing a clear multi-discipline pathway for children with emerging special educational needs (SEN) and defining and delivering a Work for All Strategy in partnership with employers.
Whole Life Pathway
With children, young people, families and adults, will co-produce pathways for a range of needs such as Learning Disabilities, Mental Health, young people with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND) and young people leaving care. To encompass improvement in social, emotional mental health (SEMH) provision, market and provider development and building resilience within individuals, families and communities,
Integrated Multi-Professional Early Support
Will co-design multi-agency and multi-discipline integrated services working to a local patch/community level taking a local, targeted approach to supporting vulnerable children and parents. To include the investigation of shared information technology, developing a singular assessment and referral mechanism and strengthening the roles of Multi-Agency Forums (MAFs). To build resilience (e.g. emotional, financial, etc) in families and communities and thereby increase social mobility.
Community Safety for Young People
Will deliver models supporting more intensive interventions for children and young people at risk of anti-social behaviour, exploitation, offending or on the edge of care. This will include both the expansion and embedding of contextual safeguarding and strength-based trauma-informed approaches.
Core Skills and Single Approach
Will co-develop a consistent, cultural 'way of working' and having with children and families in Wiltshire which is adopted by all whilst respecting professional disciplines. To include the adoption of Making Every Contact Count (MECC), awareness of trauma through Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) and attachment based parenting through Five to Thrive. To also include developing shared training and development pathways which also encompasses systems leadership.
The Programme will also deliver operational change based on strategy developed by the Community Safety Partnership and as a result of assurance activities by the Safeguarding Vulnerable People Partnership. As and when identified work will be scoped and allocated to the most appropriate work stream.