Corporate Parenting Board Report - reflects the importance that the Isle of Wight Council gives to ensuring that its children in public care are safe, cared for and achieving well.
Early Help Strategy (draft) - the Isle of Wight Children and Young People’s strategic partnership is in the process of developing a three to five year programme of activity and has set out its commitment to children young people and families on the Isle of Wight. As part of this, we want to ensure that we provide early and effective assistance when a problem arises in a child or young person’s life as we know that intervening early to support families helps to reduce abuse and neglect. We recognise that early help is a key element in enabling us to achieve our ambition of laying the foundations for strong parenting and ensuring that families are confident in reaching out for help and support. Our strategy sets out how we will deliver this effectively for the children and young people of the Isle of Wight and their families.
Family and Friends Care Policy - this document covers the Isle of Wight Council's policy in relation to children cared for full time by a family or friend carer in an arrangement or placement known to brokered or supported by the the local authority as set out in the Family and Friends Care : Statutory Guidance for Local Authorities published in March 2011. This policy does not include fully private arrangements
Foster Carers' Charter - this lays out what the foster carers can expect from the fostering service and what the fostering service expects from foster carers.
Joint Strategic Needs Assessments (JSNA) - The JSNA will be a key part of the new local arrangements to improve health and wellbeing on the Island, outlined in the government’s public health white paper ‘Healthy Lives, Healthy People’. These arrangements will include the establishment of a local Health and Wellbeing Board, which will bring together Isle of Wight Council, NHS Isle of Wight and the emerging Clinical Commissioning Group, as well as other local partners. The Board will provide a framework for these organisations to take a joint approach to improving the health and wellbeing of the Island population. The JSNA is intended to provide a comprehensive picture of the Island’s health and wellbeing, and will enable the Health and Wellbeing Board to develop an over-arching Health and Wellbeing Strategy for the Island. This strategy will respond to the needs and priorities identified in the JSNA, and plan what services and activities are required to address them.
Organisational Chart - structure chart showing the arrangement of the social work units and the managers that they report to.
Threshold for Interventions (currently under review) - produced by the Isle of Wight Local Safeguarding Children Board, this document is primarly written for professionals who come into regular or daily contact with children or families and may have concern about a child, young person or unborn child. This is a tool to help professionals decide about appropriate levels of intervention.