Early Intervention and prevention. There are a number of long-term initiatives as well as new activity which we believe will secure the continuing development of the local economy, sustain growth and increase employment. These include: • Continuing to put young people at the heart of our activity on economic development while recognising the needs of all job seekers. This includes providing work experience and activity opportunities with local employers and in key sectors; • Delivering high quality business support services which integrate national and local priorities • Ensuring we continue to invest in our infrastructure so that the area continues to be an attractive place to do business helps to attract inward investment and secures job creation. This will be assisted with initiatives such as the Tax Incremental Finance Initiative (TIF); • Secure good levels of attainment for young people leaving school and raising young people’s levels of aspiration, through for example young people’s entrepreneurial schemes; • Utilising our collective influence to secure better investment opportunities for local businesses and businesses seeking to locate in the Falkirk Council area; • Giving greater priority to securing positive and sustainable destinations for looked after school leavers; • Promoting skills for life, including literacy, numeracy and digital inclusion; • Further engaging with local employers to ensure we are supporting young people and children to become the workforce for the future; • Take forward the role of the Council as ‘corporate parent’ in providing employment for young people who have been looked after. There are number of areas we have recognised that we need to enhance if our approach in this area is to continue to be effective to secure sustainable economic growth and boosting employment. These include: • Improving the connectivity between employment, skills and growth, whilst better matching the skills of our workforce to the needs of business and employment opportunities; • Refreshing our economic strategy to address issues of employment, growth, support to business and tourism; • Working more effectively, whilst securing better value for money across the partner organisations to support the sustainable growth of our local economy; • Ensuring that local business continue to be at the heart of our economic strategy and have a strong voice in influencing its continuing development; • Building on the area’s key strengths include the chemical, manufacturing and distribution sectors; • Further developing our approach on the social economy and the social enterprise sector; • Developing a consistent and coherent joint employment and skills approach across the Community Planning partnership which focuses on increasing the numbers in quality and sustainable employment; • Supporting employers to grow their business while securing their support to help unemployed people realise sustainable employment; and • Developing a single coherent partnership offer to job seekers and employers pulling together national and local elements of support to provide a simplified service to meet local needs. • Developing the family firm approach to meeting the needs of our children who are looked after; • Recognising that increased numbers of local people will actively be seeking employment as a result of changes in the welfare benefits system, and helping them to secure sustainable employment; and • Securing community benefits from public sector procurement and pursuing partnership and collaborative approaches on the commissioning of services. • Local development planning to focus on place making and sustainable economic growth • Promoting the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ World Heritage Site and our conservation areas The measurement of progress in this area will build on existing indicators but will also be cognisant of the direct link between the sustainable growth of our local economy the creation of employment. Our indicators will therefore be: • Total gross added value of local businesses per head of population; • The number of new businesses started and sustained in the year; • Local business satisfaction, expressed as a “good area in which to do business”; • Number of job seeker’s allowance claimants; • Percentage unemployed; • Percentage of youth unemployment; • Employment rate (aged 16-64); • Basket of educational attainment indicators; • Percentage of young people in positive and sustained school leaving destinations; • Percentage of looked after school leavers in a positive and sustained destination; • The increase in post 16 learning in higher and further education or training; • Median earnings for residents living locally who are employed; • Total annual visitor expenditure in the area; and • Percentage of Forth Valley College learners achieving a nationally recognised qualification. Our outcomes for children and young people are very much aimed at what start they are given in life and the qualities and achievements they will take into their adult life. We are very much aware that the circumstances that some children and young people find themselves in provides them with many challenges in life that they have to overcome to live the life that they want to. Our outcomes to address this are that: • All Falkirk children will be happy, healthy and able to make decisions about their own health & well-being; • All Falkirk children will grow up in a safe environment where they are protected, loved and enabled to enjoy their lives; and • All Falkirk children will achieve their potential through learning and creativity developing the skills and knowledge to make them fulfilled happy adults. meet the stretch challenges of the Early Years Collaborative; ensure that our services meet the requirements of the growing population; continue to improve school attainment and qualifications among adults; continue to encourage young people into positive destinations including Further and Higher education; ensure that our most vulnerable children are supported and protected; ensure that we help to mitigate against the effects that poverty has on children; and ensure that excluded and looked after children have better outcomes. Partnership activity in support of outcomes for children and young people is co-ordinated by the Falkirk Children’s Commission and underpinned by the following plans and strategies: • “for falkirk’s bairns” 210-2015 – Falkirk’s Integrated Children’s Services Plan • Falkirk Child Protection Committee Strategic Improvement Plan 2011 -2014 • Corporate Parenting Strategy • Social Work Service Plan • Employability Strategy • Early Years Collaborative Stretch Aims • Forth Valley College Outcome Agreement Action will be taken to mainstream partner’s resources in pursuit of our outcomes. In addition to this we will ensure that we have Joint Working Agreements in place with Third Sector partners. We will also seek to optimise our allocated resources from the Early Years Change Fund and explore opportunities to exploit other external sources of funding. We know that we will be making satisfactory progress towards our longer term outcomes if: • Women experience positive pregnancies; • Children reach their expected developmental milestones by their 27 – 30 month check; and • Children reach their expected development milestones by the time they start primary school Our approach on early years is and will continue to be firmly rooted in Getting it Right for Every Child (GIRFEC). To deliver on GIRFEC we will give priority to: • Meeting the needs of our most vulnerable children; • Supporting children and young people who are likely to be most adversely affected by welfare reform; • Implementing the curriculum for excellence; and • Shifting the balance of resources so that we increase our efforts on prevention and early intervention. We will continue to drive through the implementation of GIRFEC so that it is embedded into day-to-day practice, organisational cultures and systems and is a central focus for service provision. To meet the challenges above we will: • Improve the maternal and infant nutrition through education and support; • Ensure that are most vulnerable are protected from harm; • Increases parenting skills and knowledge through the implementation of the Psychology of Parenting Project and support to families; • Ensure that we have a workforce skilled to meet children and young people’s needs; • Focus on improving attachment and resilience in children and young people; and • Ensure that our most vulnerable children have the skills and opportunities which lead to positive destinations; and • To enable children to develop the skills they need to make positive choices for their own health and wellbeing To optimise the impact of the above there are some process issues which require additional work. These include: • Establishing the link between the resources we utilise and the outcomes we achieve; • Providing evidence on the impact of preventative spending; • Better linking the services and outcomes associated with services to children and young people to those of adults; and • Improving information sharing between partners. While the realisation of our Early Years Outcomes will take a number of years to achieve it is important that we are able to monitor and assure both our progress and performance in the short to medium term. We propose to do this by reporting performance on the following indicators to the Community Planning Leadership Board, every 6 months where appropriate: • Teenage pregnancy rate (pregnancies among under 16 year olds (3 year average per 1000 relevant population)) • Percentage of ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ full term live births which are low weight (low weight live births) • Breastfeeding at 6-8 weeks (% of newborn children exclusively breastfed at 6-8 weeks) • % parents who rate their neighbourhood as a good place to live (% of adults stating their neighbourhood is a 'very good' place to live) • Percentage of mothers smoking at ante-natal booking • Children in benefit dependent households (% of children living in households that are dependent on out of work benefits or Child Tax Credit) • % of obese children in P1 (estimated % of obese children in P1 ) • % of children with dental decay in P1 (% of children with dental decay in P1) • Children (pre birth to 16) referred to reporter on care and protection grounds • Number of looked after children from birth to 21 looked after a) in community placements, and b) in residential placements • Percentage of pupils who agree with the statement “I feel safe and well looked after/secure in the school” • Percentage of total Forth Valley College activity delivered from the school college partnership activity
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Sources: Single Outcome Agreement
Early Intervention and prevention. There are a number of long-term initiatives as well as new activity which we believe will secure the continuing development of the local economy, sustain growth and increase employment. These include: • Continuing to put young people at the heart of our activity on economic development while recognising the needs of all job seekers. This includes providing work experience and activity opportunities with local employers and in key sectors; • Delivering high quality business support services which integrate national and local priorities • Ensuring we continue to invest in our infrastructure so that the area continues to be an attractive place to do business helps to attract inward investment and secures job creation. This will be assisted with initiatives such as the Tax Incremental Finance Initiative (TIF); • Secure good levels of attainment for young people leaving school and raising young people’s levels of aspiration, through for example young people’s entrepreneurial schemes; • Utilising our collective influence to secure better investment opportunities for local businesses and businesses seeking to locate in the Falkirk Council area; • Giving greater priority to securing positive and sustainable destinations for looked after school leavers; • Promoting skills for life, including literacy, numeracy and digital inclusion; • Further engaging with local employers to ensure we are supporting young people and children to become the workforce for the future; • Take forward the role of the Council as ‘corporate parent’ in providing employment for young people who have been looked after. There are number of areas we have recognised that we need to enhance if our approach in this area is to continue to be effective to secure sustainable economic growth and boosting employment. These include: • Improving the connectivity between employment, skills and growth, whilst better matching the skills of our workforce to the needs of business and employment opportunities; • Refreshing our economic strategy to address issues of employment, growth, support to business and tourism; • Working more effectively, whilst securing better value for money across the partner organisations to support the sustainable growth of our local economy; • Ensuring that local business continue to be at the heart of our economic strategy and have a strong voice in influencing its continuing development; • Building on the area’s key strengths include the chemical, manufacturing and distribution sectors; • Further developing our approach on the social economy and the social enterprise sector; • Developing a consistent and coherent joint employment and skills approach across the Community Planning partnership which focuses on increasing the numbers in quality and sustainable employment; • Supporting employers to grow their business while securing their support to help unemployed people realise sustainable employment; and • Developing a single coherent partnership offer to job seekers and employers pulling together national and local elements of support to provide a simplified service to meet local needs. • Developing the family firm approach to meeting the needs of our children who are looked after; • Recognising that increased numbers of local people will actively be seeking employment as a result of changes in the welfare benefits system, and helping them to secure sustainable employment; and • Securing community benefits from public sector procurement and pursuing partnership and collaborative approaches on the commissioning of services. • Local development planning to focus on place making and sustainable economic growth • Promoting the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ World Heritage Site and our conservation areas The measurement of progress in this area will build on existing indicators but will also be cognisant of the direct link between the sustainable growth of our local economy the creation of employment. Our indicators will therefore be: • Total gross added value of local businesses per head of population; • The number of new businesses started and sustained in the year; • Local business satisfaction, expressed as a “good area in which to do business”; • Number of job seeker’s allowance claimants; • Percentage unemployed; • Percentage of youth unemployment; • Employment rate (aged 16-64); • Basket of educational attainment indicators; • Percentage of young people in positive and sustained school leaving destinations; • Percentage of looked after school leavers in a positive and sustained destination; • The increase in post 16 learning in higher and further education or training; • Median earnings for residents living locally who are employed; • Total annual visitor expenditure in the area; and • Percentage of Forth Valley College learners achieving a nationally recognised qualification. Our outcomes for children and young people are very much aimed at what start they are given in life and the qualities and achievements they will take into their adult life. We are very much aware that the circumstances that some children and young people find themselves in provides them with many challenges in life that they have to overcome to live the life that they want to. Our outcomes to address this are that: • All Falkirk children will be happy, healthy and able to make decisions about their own health & well-being; • All Falkirk children will grow up in a safe environment where they are protected, loved and enabled to enjoy their lives; and • All Falkirk children will achieve their potential through learning and creativity developing the skills and knowledge to make them fulfilled happy adults. ⮚ meet the stretch challenges of the Early Years Collaborative; ⮚ ensure that our services meet the requirements of the growing population; ⮚ continue to improve school attainment and qualifications among adults; ⮚ continue to encourage young people into positive destinations including Further and Higher education; ⮚ ensure that our most vulnerable children are supported and protected; ⮚ ensure that we help to mitigate against the effects that poverty has on children; and ⮚ ensure that excluded and looked after children have better outcomes. Partnership activity in support of outcomes for children and young people is co-ordinated by the Falkirk Children’s Commission and underpinned by the following plans and strategies: • “for falkirk’s bairns” 210-2015 – Falkirk’s Integrated Children’s Services Plan • Falkirk Child Protection Committee Strategic Improvement Plan 2011 -2014 • Corporate Parenting Strategy • Social Work Service Plan • Employability Strategy • Early Years Collaborative Stretch Aims • Forth Valley College Outcome Agreement Action will be taken to mainstream partner’s resources in pursuit of our outcomes. In addition to this we will ensure that we have Joint Working Agreements in place with Third Sector partners. We will also seek to optimise our allocated resources from the Early Years Change Fund and explore opportunities to exploit other external sources of funding. We know that we will be making satisfactory progress towards our longer term outcomes if: • Women experience positive pregnancies; • Children reach their expected developmental milestones by their 27 – 30 month check; and • Children reach their expected development milestones by the time they start primary school Our approach on early years is and will continue to be firmly rooted in Getting it Right for Every Child (GIRFEC). To deliver on GIRFEC we will give priority to: • Meeting the needs of our most vulnerable children; • Supporting children and young people who are likely to be most adversely affected by welfare reform; • Implementing the curriculum for excellence; and • Shifting the balance of resources so that we increase our efforts on prevention and early intervention. We will continue to drive through the implementation of GIRFEC so that it is embedded into day-to-day practice, organisational cultures and systems and is a central focus for service provision. To meet the challenges above we will: • Improve the maternal and infant nutrition through education and support; • Ensure that are most vulnerable are protected from harm; • Increases parenting skills and knowledge through the implementation of the Psychology of Parenting Project and support to families; • Ensure that we have a workforce skilled to meet children and young people’s needs; • Focus on improving attachment and resilience in children and young people; and • Ensure that our most vulnerable children have the skills and opportunities which lead to positive destinations; and • To enable children to develop the skills they need to make positive choices for their own health and wellbeing To optimise the impact of the above there are some process issues which require additional work. These include: • Establishing the link between the resources we utilise and the outcomes we achieve; • Providing evidence on the impact of preventative spending; • Better linking the services and outcomes associated with services to children and young people to those of adults; and • Improving information sharing between partners. While the realisation of our Early Years Outcomes will take a number of years to achieve it is important that we are able to monitor and assure both our progress and performance in the short to medium term. We propose to do this by reporting performance on the following indicators to the Community Planning Leadership Board, every 6 months where appropriate: • Teenage pregnancy rate (pregnancies among under 16 year olds (3 year average per 1000 relevant population)) • Percentage of ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ full term live births which are low weight (low weight live births) • Breastfeeding at 6-8 weeks (% of newborn children exclusively breastfed at 6-8 weeks) • % parents who rate their neighbourhood as a good place to live (% of adults stating their neighbourhood is a 'very good' place to live) • Percentage of mothers smoking at ante-natal booking • Children in benefit dependent households (% of children living in households that are dependent on out of work benefits or Child Tax Credit) • % of obese children in P1 (estimated % of obese children in P1 ) • % of children with dental decay in P1 (% of children with dental decay in P1) • Children (pre birth to 16) referred to reporter on care and protection grounds • Number of looked after children from birth to 21 looked after a) in community placements, and b) in residential placements • Percentage of pupils who agree with the statement “I feel safe and well looked after/secure in the school” • Percentage of total Forth Valley College activity delivered from the school college partnership activity
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Sources: Single Outcome Agreement