Health, Well-being & Care

The role of Transformation Services is to provide a series of support functions to the department and to the Children and Young people’s Strategic partnership to enable the effective and efficient delivery of services to Children, Young people and Families across the district.

Transformation Services leads the Council and its partners’ Children’s Trust arrangements.

Transformation delivers the following functions.

Strategic Commissioning brings together the commissioning of services undertaken for the department’s activity alongside the joint commissioning of those children’s services for which the local authority is the lead or accountable body. Strategic commissioning brings together the following services:

• The local authority’s new statutory responsibility (since 1 April 2008) to deliver Connexions Services
• The commissioning of services to provide appropriate placements for children and young people in local authority care
• The local authority’s lead responsibility for the delivery of the Children’s Fund, including the commissioning of preventative services
• The local authority’s lead responsibility for the preparation and delivery of the Children and Young People’s Substance Misuse Treatment Plan
• The local authority’s lead responsibility for the commissioning of services to deliver the “Aiming High for Disabled Children” pathfinder project
• The local authority’s lead responsibility for the commissioning of services to prepare and deliver the Teenage Pregnancy and Sexual Health Strategy.

Integrated Working provides support to staff within the department and across the partnership for the implementation of major new systems and ways of working. Current activities include:

• CAF - the statutory introduction of a common assessment framework for assessing children and young people’s needs at the earliest opportunity in order to maximise life chances
• ICS - the statutory introduction of the Integrated Children’s System which is an IT system which requires new ways of working initially in Children’s Social Care but subsequently be across other providers of services for children and young people
• Preparation for the introduction of the ContactPoint System which is a national system for recording details of all children and young people across the country

For further information please go to: Integrated Working

Strategic Planning provides the department’s contribution to departmental corporate planning activity such as:

• The Local Area Agreement, the Big Plan
• Coordination of inspection processes such as the Annual Performance Assessment of children’s services and the Department’s contribution to the forthcoming Comprehensive Area Assessment
• Undertaking the Council’s responsibility to publish a Children and Young People’s Plan 3 yearly and an annual review
• Support for the local authority’s statutory responsibility to lead the Children’s Trust arrangements, including supporting the Champions for Children Board, the Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership Group and four sub-groups of the partnership which relate to Every Child Matters outcome areas.

Service Improvement is a small team which offers project management and project support across the department in order to maximise efficiency and effectiveness of service delivery. Activities include:

• Coordination of changes in procedures required to conform to changes in legal responsibilities
• Statutory complaints relating to Children’s Social Care
• Project management and support for departmental and partnership projects.

The Performance team is responsible for:

• Co-ordinating and reporting performance information for the department and the Children’s Trust
• Developing and co-ordinating service planning arrangements for the department
• Undertaking the analysis of needs which supports the Children and Young People’s Plan
• Research and evaluation activity
• Coordination of the partnership’s responsibilities in relation to the National Indicator set
• Links to the Bradford observatory
• Coordinating the department’s contribution to the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment.

Workforce Development brings together all training and development related activity across the department. As well as supporting the department’s workforce development, the team is also responsible for development of the workforce in the third sector in relation to work with children, young people and families