Local Children's Partnerships

Local Children’s Partnerships (LCPs) are the local delivery areas for children’s services in the county.

Aims and Objectives

What are they and what do they do?

LCPs are local children’s services delivery areas.  They work to ensure better outcomes for children and young people through, innovation, cooperation and  removing barriers.  The work of LCPs is driven by the CYPP and local priorities.  The work of the LCP will inform the CYPSP and local LSP commissioning.  LCPs are new ways of working.

Each LCP will have a score card which will report the LCP performance.  This will be clear about local targets, local performance and accountability and will contribute to peer and partnership review.

LCPs have ‘soft boundaries’ as they need to work with neighbours.

They will reflect the 0 - 19 age range but will need to recognise  0 - 5, 5 - 13 and 13 - 19 (25 with additional needs) age groups.

Capacity

• Strategic development Officers (focus 0 - 19)
• Children’s Centres Managers in Districts (focus 0 -  5)
• Health Locality Manager (focus integration)
• Teenage Services Manager

New ways of partnership working

While we will continue to work through our normal line management arrangements, we will

• Identify success areas and areas for development.  We will feed the development area back into the children’s services commissioning cycle (see PDF attached)
• Work to a specification which drives the use of CAF/LP/Directory of services and ContactPoint and identifies local training needs
• Actively involve children, young people and their parents
• They will provide challenge - could we do it better?  They can hold partners to account.  They will want to innovate in local practice.
• Produce an annual report on the five outcomes in their area to the Outcome Leads
• Use collective influence and levers for change where there are issues that are problematic

Boundaries

While LCPs fit within District Council boundaries not all boundaries will map together.  However  LCPs are about new ways of working and managers and practitioners on the ground will find ways of collaborating where there are difficulties.