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Copyright 2009 Northumberland County Council

Directorate Plan for Wellbeing and Community Health

November 2015



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 HealthTo 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

CareTo 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

SafeguardingTo 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.



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 TransportSkills• 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 LearningPupils• 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 educationParents• 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 assessmentLooked After Children• Residential care homes• Foster carers and Adoption• Family SupportNorthumberland Adolescent Services• Youth Offending• Participation and advocacy• Leaving Care• 14+ Social Work Team• SORTED substance misuse teamEarly intervention and prevention• Children’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



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



Deputy Chief ExecutiveDaljit Lally

Head of Safeguarding &

Strategic Commissioning

Jane Bowie

Head of ServiceFinance,

Estates and ICTNHS/NCC

Neil Bradley

Director of Adult and Community Care Services

Vanessa Bainbridge

Director of Public HealthPenny Spring

Director of Education and

SkillsAndy Johnson

Head of Children’s

Social CareRachel Farnham

Our Management Team



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

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