IDeA Total Place seminar series

These free events are open to sector colleagues and partners.

• Total Place: Targeted early intervention and prevention – an integrated approach
• Total Place: Your workforce
• Total Place: Doing the 'deep dive' count
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Total Place: Targeted early intervention and prevention – an integrated approach

Date: 5 March 2010, 10:30 am 3:00 pm
Venue: Layden House, London
Cost: free

Despite unprecedented financial investment in targeted early intervention and prevention over the last 10 years, outcomes for vulnerable children, young people and families remain poor. While there is better understanding of what risks in early life contribute to poor outcomes for young people and families later on, the challenge of responding in an effective and systemic way in all localities remains.

Total Place offers an opportunity to explore the organisational, cultural and financial opportunities to do things differently with a focus on needs and outcomes.

This seminar will offer the opportunity to hear:

• about the evidence base for targeted support and early intervention – what works
• from representatives of several councils about how they are developing this theme in their localities using the Total Place process – the how.

This will:

• be an interactive seminar
• give opportunities to discuss issues arising
• share knowledge and experiences of various processes and models with a particular focus on joining up adult and children’s needs and how we respond to these in a holistic and integrated way in a locality.

Programme

10.00 Registration and refreshments
10.30 Welcome and introduction to the day
10.45 Input on evidenced-based practice – what kinds of interventions are improving outcomes for vulnerable children, young people and families
11.15 Group excercise – sharing the challenges of responding to needs in an effective, systematic way
11.45 Feedback to the whole group
12.00 What can Total Place bring to the early intervention and prevention agenda – two case studies
13.00 Lunch
13.45 Small group discussions – what we can take back to our place
14.30 Group discussion
14.45 Round-up

Targeted early intervention and prevention online booking form

Total Place: your workforce

Date: 12 March 2010, 11:00 am til 3:00 pm
Venue: Layden House, London
Cost: free

This seminar will explore and discuss the workforce issues partnerships are likely to face in taking a Total Place approach.

There will be contributions from the human resources (HR) leads from a number of local authorities who will reflect on:

• the workforce issues they have encountered so far
• how they have dealt with them
• the workforce issues they anticipate as their ‘Total Place’ approach develops.

Local Government Employers (LGE) will contribute their perspectives on the employment relations issues for councils and their partners and the pros and cons of different options. Speakers from other public services will also be invited to contribute their views on the workforce issues, challenges and possible solutions from a partners’ perspective.

This will be an interactive seminar with time for questions and discussion, and opportunities for participants to raise and discuss other issues and approaches from their experience.

Programme

10.30 Registration and refreshments
11.00 Welcome and introduction from seminar Chair Joan Munro, National Advisor Workforce Strategy, IDeA
11.10 Learning from the Croydon Total Place pilot, Pam Parkes, Director of Human Resources and Organisational Development, London Borough of Lewisham
11.30 Questions and discussion
11.40 Learning from the Worcestershire Total Place pilot, Roger Britton, Director of Human Resources, Worcestershire County Council
12.00 Questions and discussion
12.10 Group discussions:

• the key issues raised by the two presentations
• other important issues not raised by the presentations
• which issues are most important to prepare for or tackle now
• which are going to be most tricky to deal with
• what local authorities and their partners might do to begin to tackle and or overcome these issues.

12.40 Feedback and discussion
1.00 Lunch
1.30 Potential employment relations issues in Total Place and options for tackling these
Phil Bundy, Local Government Employers
1.55 Questions and discussion
2.15 Learning from the IDeA’s Integrated Workforce Strategy Project
Joan Munro, National Adviser Workforce Strategy, IDeA
2.25 Question and discussion
2.35 Plenary discussion of the issues, including discussion of what national bodies might do to support local authorities and their partners in preparing for and tackling potential major issues
2.55 Review of the day, proposals and follow-up action
3.00 Close

Total Place: and your workforce online booking form

Total Place: doing the 'deep dive' count

Date: 26 March 2010, 10:00 am til 4:00 pm
Venue: Bevin Hall, Local Government House, London
Cost: free

This is a follow-up to the high-level count seminar in January – a practical workshop aimed at those doing a 'deep dive' count in their area.

There will be input from Cap Gemini on the work they’ve undertaken in Kent, plus learning from Capital Ambition’s 'deep dive' work into anti-social behaviour and young people, worklessness and managing chronic conditions.

Doing the 'deep dive' online booking form

Contact

The IDeA Total Place team
email: totalplace@idea.gov.uk

Page updated January 2010.