Partnership and Pooled Fund Arrangements ‘The key is the preparation that needs to go on before people have conversations about pooling budgets’ Brighton and Hove AD

Redbridge - Vision Fully integrated: CLAH SEN / Disability Community Services – localised services Strategy / Resources

Background Redbridge’s bid as a Pathfinder Children’s Trust announced as successful in June 2003 Powerful support from Director of Children and Families and PCT CE.

Pooled Funds Section 31 agreement (now Section 75 of the Health Act 2006). Health staff seconded to the Council under existing Terms and Conditions Available on line: tegy/planningandcommissioning/jointfu nding/

Services in the Trust – Phase One 2004 Children with Disabilities’ social work and occupational therapy services from Children and Families’ Service Community Paediatric Team, Children’s Community Nursing Team, School Nursing as based in Children’s Centre and Special Schools, Health Visitors located at Children’s Centre, Support Worker, Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy services; from PCT SEN Assessment Team, Pre-School Home Visiting Service, Early Years Assessment Service, Escorts, Transport for SEN Residential placements pooled

Services in the Trust – Phase Two 2005 Educational Psychology, Educational Welfare, Early Years Services, Advisory Teachers for Looked after Children Health Visitors, Speech and Language Therapists, School Nurses, Child Protection Leads Remainder of Children and Families Service [Social Services for children and families]

Structure of Trust

Children’s Resource Centres 3 locality based Resource Centres, providing base for a number of staff and coordinating delivery of services within locality in partnership with schools, health facilities and the voluntary sector Preventative Panel with limited joint funding for individualised budgets.

Considerations Principles / Visions High level agreement – leadership Project Management / agreement / schedules Scope – what is in and what is out Disaggregation / anomalies Phased Approach Structural development / Integrated Management Risk management

Considerations Secondment Knows and unknowns Personnel involved – the cultural divide Development groups – governance, finance, HR, integrated service areas, consultation and participation. Events / training Processes / policy Communication

Other Pooled Budgets....

Brighton and Hove S31(S75) Brighton and Hove - A joint funding arrangement for staffing commenced on 1 October A full agreement covering almost £90 million in joint funding commenced on 1 April 2007.

Barnsley S31(S75) Joint funding arrangement covers around 18.5 million. The pooled budget agreement is used primarily for children’s social services, including assessment functions, adoption/fostering, safeguarding, children with disabilities and some specific health services for example CAMHS, school nursing, psychology and some therapy services.