Children’s Centres Update Mike Newman Children Centre Support Officer

Core Purpose Improve outcomes & reduce inequalities child development & school readiness parenting aspirations & parenting skills child and family health and life chances.

Children’s Centres Core Offer

Revised Ofsted framework Cluster (group) based inspections Much broader than children’s centres Greater emphasis on the role & responsibility of the local authority Focus is on robust needs assessment, identification & delivery of key priorities

National Ofsted Outcomes 2123 inspections - mix of single (1924) and group (199) 66 % of centres good or better but results vary between single (68%) and group inspections (50%) Overall results 3% lower than March 2014.

Hampshire Ofsted outcomes 24 inspections to date (single & cluster inspections) 86.5% judged as good or better overall

Other performance data (March15) Reach to all families – 54.1% Reach to families in 30% most deprived areas - 71% Proportion of vulnerable families reached – 33.6% Reach to children under 5 in rural communities 32.9% Over 4600 parents attended targeted evidence based parenting programmes (e.g. PEEP, Triple P, Incredible Years) Over 1000 parents supported into work, education, training or volunteering 514 parents attended evidence based healthy lifestyle programmes such as Cook & Eat and Henry

Internal monitoring Children’s centres receive regular monitoring & support visits Areas of focus for 2015/16 include: –information sharing & tracking progress, –support for employment & training, –continuing to increase engagement with vulnerable families and groups

Other developments Stronger partnerships with health & voluntary partners (e.g. joint commissioning & delivery of Henry programmes, joint working agreement with Homestart ) Improved information sharing with Social Care Rollout of the parent champions volunteer programme Development of links with universal provision (e.g. private and voluntary groups though an affiliation project)