1. www.northumberland.gov.uk Copyright 2009 Northumberland County Council Directorate Plan for Wellbeing and Community Health November 2015

2. www.northumberland.gov.uk Copyright 2009 Northumberland County Council Children’s Social Care To provide services that protect children and young people from significant harm and offending; including providing foster care for those who cannot live with their families and residential accommodation for the most vulnerable; supporting families through early help and intervention thereby avoiding involvement of statutory services Public Health To improve the health and wellbeing of local residents and reduce health inequalities across the life course through delivering nationally mandated and locally determined public health priorities and supporting the statutory functions of the Health & Wellbeing Board. Adult Health and Social Care To provide integrated community health and adult social care services in the county, with the aim of providing care closer to home; maintaining and supporting service users; promoting independence and wellbeing; integrating co- ordination of care Adults Strategic Commissioning and Safeguarding To understand the demand and manage the market to ensure there is sufficient provision of an appropriate quality to meet demand, whilst also providing the statutory safeguarding service Northumbria NHS Foundation Trust Support for: ICT; Estates; Performance; Governance; Policy; Client Relations; Service User Involvement Our Family of Services Education and Skills To enhance resident’s skills and employment opportunities; by providing services that support the quality of early years, primary and secondary education and youth provision; and by delivering services to support those with special educational needs (SEN) and additional needs.

3. www.northumberland.gov.uk Copyright 2009 Northumberland County Council Our Primary Functions (1) Education and Skills Children’s Social CarePublic Health Schools Supporting Strategic Planning and Policy Partnership and Infrastructure Planning School Improvement Services Major Developments and Delivery of capital projects Response to Social Inclusion Policy Strategic Transport Skills Business Support and Communications Supporting access to External Funding Organisational Development and Human Resources support Strategic Support to set direction for post- 16 education Adult Learning Pupils Ensuring all pupils and young people reach their potential Increase the number of good and outstanding schools Promote improvement in exam success Receive entitlement to good quality full time education Parents Ensure parents have choices of good or outstanding schools across the county Encourage parents to get involved and become governors Social work Locality-based social work services Services for disabled children and young people Police and Court liaison Hospital and health liaison Multi agency risk assessment Looked After Children Residential care homes Foster carers and Adoption Family Support Northumberland Adolescent Services Youth Offending Participation and advocacy Leaving Care 14+ Social Work Team SORTED substance misuse team Early intervention and prevention C hildren’s Centres Supporting Families Family recovery Mandatory Public Health Functions Open access sexual health services National Child Measurement and NHS Health Check Programmes Healthy Child programme 0-19 years Public health advice service to the Clinical Commissioning Group Information and advice to local health protection arrangements Other Public Health commissioning responsibilities Tobacco control, Healthy eating, Physical activity Alcohol harm prevention Obesity prevention Population wellbeing Reducing health inequalities Prevention and early intervention programmes Specialist drug and alcohol services Avoidable injury prevention Workplace health Dental public health Cancer and long term conditions prevention Wider determinants of health

4. www.northumberland.gov.uk Copyright 2009 Northumberland County Council Our Primary Functions (2) Safeguarding and Strategic Commissioning Adults Community Health and Social Care Commissioning and contracting services for adult social care Policy for wellbeing group Strategic safeguarding team Support for Safeguarding Adults Board Complaints team Welfare Rights team Equality and Diversity support Local Authority Designated Officer Independent Reviewing service Support for Local Safeguarding Children Board Advice, provision of assessment and care for vulnerable adults and older people (incl. Learning disabilities and Mental Health) Care Management Community & District Nursing End of Life & Palliative Care JELS & OT Podiatry Public health services Re-ablement and community rehab Single Point of Access Hospital to Home Sexual Health Speech and Language Therapy Specialist Services e.g. Tissue Viability, Cardiac Rehab Wheelchair services

5. www.northumberland.gov.uk Copyright 2009 Northumberland County Council Deputy Chief Executive Daljit Lally Head of Safeguarding & Strategic Commissioning Jane Bowie Head of Service Finance, Estates and ICT NHS/NCC Neil Bradley Director of Adult and Community Care Services Vanessa Bainbridge Director of Public Health Penny Spring Director of Education and Skills Andy Johnson Head of Children’s Social Care Rachel Farnham Our Management Team

6. www.northumberland.gov.uk Copyright 2009 Northumberland County Council Our Objectives and Key Outcomes To equip all our children and young people with the appropriate qualifications, training and skills to access meaningful work To ensure that children in need and at risk receive timely and appropriate interventions to prevent significant harm To promote and protect the health and wellbeing of the local population To ensure that everyone has the opportunity to lead healthy, independent lives with dignity and confidence for as long as possible Attain better outcomes at Key Stage 2 and 4 Close attainment gaps and improve rate of progress Attain better outcomes for the more able (even in best schools) Facilitate better leadership and quality of teaching Secure continued improvement in level of early years development Build better partnerships with Diocese, Academies and Schools Become more responsive to local employer needs Review in-house Adult Learning and Youth services, moving to targeted rather than universal service Better partnership working between schools/ Work based learning providers /college/LA/ and employers Improve outcomes for adult learners Give young offenders a genuine second chance Ensure all front line staff are suitably skilled and experienced in recognising and responding to abuse and neglect Work with partners to safely reduce referral rates and caseloads of qualified social workers Continue to develop arrangements for children at risk of sexual exploitation Recruit qualified social workers to reduce vacancies Ensure appropriate targeting of Troubled Families funding Complete reconfiguration of services for all who need residential provision Increase number of foster carers and adopters and reduce the numbers placed with IFA’s Reduce the timescales for children placed for adoption Continue to develop support services for care leavers and track progress Support educational and training opportunities for all looked after children and care leavers Provide public health information and advice to local health protection arrangements Provide independent scrutiny and challenge of local immunisation and screening arrangements to ensure optimum population coverage Commission public health services based on assessed need, best evidence and cost effectiveness. Implement an asset based approach to improve community health and wellbeing Develop Moving On project to include arrangements for support for all care leavers “Make every contact count” to promote health and wellbeing Maximise use of points of access for integrated services Embed integrated care programme, specifically for high risk individuals Further develop rehabilitation services working in community and into hospitals to improve discharge Respond to social care reform Learn from quantitative and qualitative measurement of patient satisfaction Further embed 7 day working Move more investment “upstream” towards early intervention and prevention Ensure all LA residential homes exceed national standards and are rated as at least good Provide public health advice and support to commissioners of health and social care services Provide a challenge and advocacy role in relation to preventative healthcare services