What will be different under SCYPP?
SCYPP will be overseeing work at a number of different levels.
Shared Goals:
All the organisations working with children and young people in the city will have common goals and targets which we will be working together to achieve through SCYPP.
All services will work towards the following aims for children and young people:
| Being healthy | enjoying good physical health and mental health and living a healthy lifestyle |
| Staying safe | being protected from harm and neglect and growing up able to look after themselves |
| Enjoying and achieving | getting the most out of life and developing broad skills for adulthood |
| Making a positive contribution | to the community and society and not engaging in anti-social or offending behaviour |
| Economic well-being | overcoming socio-economic disadvantages to achieve their full potential in life |
These have been set by the Government with the help of children and young people. No one agency is responsible for one area, we all have to contribute to each area. So, for instance, schools will be asked what they are doing to promote children’s health and drug workers will be asked what they are doing to promote young people’s education.
Joint Planning:
SCYPP will be bringing together the money and resources currently held by a number of different organisations and planning (commissioning) these jointly. This will involve making sure the money is spent effectively and that the services are making a difference to families.
Joint Participation:
Right at the heart of SCYPP is a commitment to involving children and young people in designing services for the future. Children, young people and carers are an important part of the SCYPP Board so that they can work with top decision makers in the city. Children and young people will also be involved at many other levels of decision making
Shared Information:
SCYPP will oversee a database of children and young people in Salford, which will make it easier for agencies to know who is supporting whom and which professionals they need to talk to if they think more help is needed. It will also be easier to ask families whether the information we have is accurate and whether they are happy for it to be shared with other people who can help.
There will also be a database of all the agencies working with children and young people in the city so that help and support is easier to find for families themselves and professionals.
In the future we will have a Common Assessment process, which will use language that everyone understands and where the information can be passed from one professional to another, so families don’t have to repeatedly tell their story.
Alongside the Common Assessment process will be a ‘lead professional’ system, someone who will get to know the overall picture of a young person’s life and will make sure that all the people who are working with them and their family are working together and know what each other are doing. This person will probably come from the organisation which has most to do with the child.
Integrated services:
As this approach develops more and more professionals are likely to be working as part of one team. This means that:
- Families will be able to get a number of services from one source.
- Families should not have to repeat their stories to different people as these people will be sharing information and will often be part of the same team.
- Professionals will not just focus on one aspect of a family’s needs but will look at the broader picture. This should help to prevent problems becoming more serious.
- These services will often be based closer to where people live.
- Services which families receive should be co-ordinated, often by a 'lead professional'.
- Services will be listening to the views and opinions of the people who use them.
This page was last updated on 16 September 2005
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