1. Effective Pathway Planning Workshop for NNECL conference
Delivered by
Alice Frank & Lisa Saxby
Catch22
:10
House keeping
Loos
Fire
Phones

2. Catch22
Is a forward-looking social business with more than 200 years experience of providing services that help people turn their lives around.
Catch22 works with troubled and vulnerable people, helping them to steer clear of crime or substance misuse, do the best they can in education or employment, and play a full part in their family or community.
Our goal is to deliver social value by turning chaotic lives around.
Catch22 oversees the operation of the NLCBF

3. National Leaving Care Benchmarking Forum
Membership of 85 local authority leaving care services
3 residential managers benchmarking forums a year
3 thematic training events focused specifically on issues effecting care leavers
Access to extensive web based resource library
Members on line benchmarking and query service
Active young peoples forum

4. Pathway planning?
11: :20
1-2 words from each delegate about their experience or understanding of pathway planning
Write up on flip chart

5. 11: :30
Ice breaker.
In pairs
Name, role
Why have you come to this conference
How far did you travel

6. Pathway planning – your experience
Find a new partner
What does pathway planning mean to you?
Ask first question

7. Statutory framework Children Act 1989:
“A plan setting out the advice, assistance and support which the local authority intend to provide a child … both while they are looking after him and later; and when they might cease to look after him”
11:30
Introduced 16 years ago
Different to LAC reviews
YP led
YP views and aspirations key – it’s very much their journey
Working tool informing everyone’s actions
Record of journey

8. Statutory framework
Eligible, relevant and formerly relevant young people require pathway plans.
Planning starts at 16 and continues every 6 months until young people reach 21 or finish their higher education
Pathway plans should be updated within 28 days of any move or whenever requested by the young person, Local Authority or Personal Advisor
Care leavers must have a named Personal Advisor from 16
Eligible children in F/C up to 18
Formerly relevant YP in staying put post 18
Formerly relevant in education Staying put 21+

9. What Ofsted look for
Is the pathway plan in place and has it been reviewed in timescales?
Are pathway plans sufficiently detailed, is there too much focus on “short term goals”?
Do the pathway plans identify who is responsible for delivering each task, and when the task should be completed?
How well do plans reflect the views of young people?
What services are in place to support young people develop their skills for independence whilst in care?
Is the plan a good record of the young persons journey into independence?

10. What young people say Quotes from young people in residential setting
Hear from Victoria later
11:40

11. How it works 12

12. The detail Aspirations
Where would the young person like to be in 1 or 2 years?
Accommodation?
Working, college?
Relationships?
Tasks to be completed in this pathway plan to help move towards goals, aspirations
Tasks should be practical, achievable, clearly identified
Who is responsible should be clearly recorded and time scales set
Young people will take on more responsibility as they mature
At next review tasks are reviewed in line with aspiration (which may well have changed!)

13. Being SMART Specific & clear Measurable (or verifiable)
Achievable & realistic
Related to the assessment of need and the overall concerns
Time-related (i.e. within what time-scale)
Finish 12:10

14. Over to you In groups complete the EET section of the pathway plan
Share your highlighted tasks with the room
In 4 groups
16 years post GCSE
17 planning for uni
18 first year at uni
20 planning for post uni

15. Any questions