1. Select Committee for Children & Young People and Independent and Healthy Lives Work Programme 2009/2010 Paul Baldasera 31 March 2009

2. How should we choose scrutiny topics?

3. Spirit of South Tyneside 3 year LAA 2020 Sustainable Community Strategy 2020 Regeneration Strategy

4. Our Priorities Safer & Stronger Communities Neighbourhoods, Housing & Transport 6 Community (LSP) themes… Children & Young People Healthier Communities and Older People Economic Development & Enterprise Resources 1 Council theme Culture & Wellbeing

5. Children & Young People priorities HELPING CHILDREN TO BE HEALTHY –Reducing risk-taking behaviour (substance misuse, teenage conceptions, sexual health, anti-social behaviour, road safety) –Reducing obesity and encouraging healthy lifestyles –Improving mental and emotional health HELPING CHILDREN TO MAKE A POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION –Encouraging citizenship and social cohesion –Increasing opportunities to participate in positive activities and recognising achievement PRIORITY OBJECTIVES -Reducing risk-taking behaviour -Reducing obesity and encouraging healthy lifestyles -Improving mental and emotional health -Increasing opportunities and participation in education, training and employment -Improving parenting skills and providing high quality preventative services -Improving the progression and transition between all key stages -Developing fully inclusive and cost effective educational opportunities -Ensuring children have a high quality pre- school experience -Encouraging citizenship and social cohesion -Increasing opportunities to participate in positive activities and recognising achievement -Improving outcomes for vulnerable children and young people* HELPING CHILDREN TO ENJOY AND ACHIEVE –Improving the progression and transition between all key stages –Developing fully inclusive and cost effective educational opportunities –Ensuring children have a high quality pre-school experience –Raising standards and reducing inequality gaps in our most disadvantaged neighbourhoods HELPING CHILDREN TO ACHIEVE ECONOMIC WELLBEING –Increasing opportunities and participation in education, training and employment –Increasing access to services for families to provide stability and economic wellbeing HELPING CHILDREN STAY SAFE –Improving parenting skills and providing high quality preventative services –Providing responsive, appropriate, targeted support to the most vulnerable children and young people

6. Independent and Healthy Lives Priorities IMPROVING HEALTH AND EMOTIONAL WELLBEING - Improving the health and wellbeing of older people - Reducing health inequalities by  Reducing smoking  Reducing obesity.  Reducing alcohol harm - Improving mental and emotional health in adults - Increasing life expectancy (particularly in males) - Increasing being active - Increasing healthy eating - Reducing sexual ill health - Improving health in priority neighbourhoods and targeted groups - Helping children and young people to be healthy MAXIMISING INDEPENDENCE CHOICE AND CONTROL - Improving support and services for carers including respite support - Increasing service user involvement - Helping people to live independently at home - Preventative care - Providing rapid access to social care services and assessment of individual needs - Making health and adult care services broader, high quality, more accessible, informative and integrated - Improving economic, social, and community wellbeing including employment opportunities for vulnerable groups - Maximising financial support / financial inclusion - Health protection (environmental) - Maintaining personal dignity and enabling person centred care - Preventative care PRIORITY OBJECTIVES - Improving the health and wellbeing of older people - Reducing health inequalities by  Reducing smoking  Reducing obesity  Reducing alcohol harm - Improving mental and emotional health in adults - Increasing life expectancy (particularly in males) - Improving support and services for carers and respite care - Increasing service user involvement - Helping people to live independently at home - Preventative care

7. Wider view for scrutiny

8. Key challenges To build a scrutiny programme based around priorities, not organisations To take LAA priority based performance reports to the relevant scrutiny committees To develop simple and well understood protocols for undertaking scrutiny with partners To continue to develop the effectiveness of scrutiny

9. Things we are already committed to Safeguarding Smoking

10. Things we must do Protocols for scrutiny of partners Councillor Call for Action Budget Performance reporting Monitoring commission recommendations

11. Children and Young People key issues for 2009/2010 Rolling out emotional resilience programme Inter-agency safer recruitment processes Developing anti-bullying support Targeted support for post 16 learners/transfer of LSC funds BSF/TOPS/SEN review – next stages Prevention for Looked After Children who offend “Places to go, things to do” programme Play Provision Development of South Tyneside College campus Child poverty innovation pilot with North Tyneside

12. Independent and Healthy Lives key issues for 2009/2010 Dementia Strategy Redesign of Falls Service Implementing the National Stroke Strategy Awareness/Screening for Diabetes Raising awareness of cancer symptoms Joint strategic Needs assessment Joint Agency approach in neighbourhoods to improve health (4 * plus project) Health inequalities

13. Need to decide your priorities for the 2009/work programme In doing this we need to be.. Realistic about how much can be done As specific as we possibly can To prioritise most important things We also need to bear in mind that.. Things change and we need to be flexible Will need to be endorsed by the committee in the next municipal year