Pennine

Education Partnership Officer

Alicia Dixon & Alan Garner

Period

Spring Term 2- March 2024

Priority

Living Safely in East Lancashire

Intended outcomes

  • Communicate Public Health messages around Vaping and smoking cessation to all education settings. A partnership approach to disrupt problematic selling to and targeting of children. Increase reporting of vaping concerns to trading standards. Capture the voice of children and young people.
  • Settings are familiar with current and best practice in relation to suicide prevention. Continue to embed Trauma Informed practice in settings.
  • Increase the access to and confidence in delivering 'Men At Work' materials in primary and community settings
  • Settings are confident in using the multi-agency support panels to intervene early in cases where children are deemed at risk.
  • Support education settings to have access to appropriate materials to raise awareness of, and to intervene effectively in instances relating to weapons and staying safe.
  • Share information and practice across the district Youth Hubs to enhance the offer for vulnerable young people and support access to EET programmes. Support the engagement of settings with the Thrive Youth Futures Foundation project and support phase 2 development.
  • Explore opportunities to use TASS to build a partnership to explore issues relating to strengthening relationships in communities across the locality.

Activity last period

Partners involved in the work are wide ranging and include:- Public Health, HCRG/Wirral NHS, Trading Standards, schools and settings, Lancashire Violence Reduction Network (LVRN), Police and We are with You.

  • Suicide prevention working group in Hyndburn district. Met with ICB suicide prevention lead to further understand the offer to schools.
  • Trauma Informed twilight sessions delivered by LVRN to staff at Brunshaw Primary School.
  • Trading Standards poster widely distributed to encourage reporting by schools, this has been well received across education settings.
  • Results of Government vaping survey shared with partners, schools and settings.
  • Serious Violence Co Ordinator for Education attended D11 & D14 HT cluster to update with regards to survey re community engagement.
  • Weapons and Resources working group continue to work together and develop local transition pilot.
  • Men At Work group have met with the author and 5 settings are now recruited to ongoing pilot in spring term
  • Engaging Parents - planning meeting with the Hollins School and Operation Engage to discuss the date / content of parents awareness sessions around Criminal exploitation, on line safety, vaping, drugs etc. Event will take place on 5th March followed by a full day of inputs at the Hollins by Op Engage to children and young people on 6th March.
  • Initial meeting to explore the new working group ‘Strengthening Communities’

Planned activity next period

  • Suicide Prevention working group in Hyndburn will continue to work on actions to improve communication pathways and increase the take up of suicide awareness training in the district.
  • Communications to be sent out to schools via the education bulletin to highlight the offer to schools around youth mental health first aid / orange button training and useful resources. Explore dates for multi-agency training for partners across the Hyndburn district.
  • Continue work with LVRN to provide Trauma Informed (TI) training to schools, settings and partners. Meeting with LVRN on 9th Feb to look at training going forward.
  • Continue to engage schools and build networks on a district level to embed the Public Health response regarding Vaping and smoking cessation. HCRG are investigating how current data regarding children and young people presenting at A & E following a vaping episode where THC or other substance may be present and how partners can respond to this.
  • Meeting to be arranged with LVRN, Emergency Dept Navigators and EPOS countywide to look at the work with schools and how this is prioritised based on the data. (first aid, bleed pack training). To be further developed through the weapons and knife crime working group.
  • Weapons and knife crime resources working group- continue the transition pilot work and links with UCLAN.
  • MASP partnership event to be held on 27th February 2024, this will concentrate on the 3 areas of Burnley, Preston and Fleetwood (current MASPS).
  • Working group meeting 7th March 2024 for settings piloting Men at Work 10 Dialogues for year 5 and 6.
  • Working with parents - 'Living Safely / Staying Safe' raising awareness session for parents will be held on Tuesday 5th March 2024 followed by a day of engagement with Op Engage staff, children and young people on 6th March. (LVRN community engagement survey to be part of these sessions).
  • Convene a meeting with all districts with providers of education, employment and training opportunities for vulnerable groups across Pennine. Continue focus in Burnley on phase 2 of the Youth Futures Foundation project.
  • Working group formed to explore the strengthening communities work stream. Meeting arranged for 28th February 2024

Impact so far

  • North West Schools Vaping Policy Framework (Office for Health Improvement and Disparities OHID) has now been published and has been circulated across the education sector. Settings now have clear guidance and a consistent approach to reporting concerns and have fedback that they are finding it easier to navigate reporting systems and are receiving excellent responses from Trading Standards, Police and partners when faced with issues in school.
  • TASS input at DFE session at the request of CFW in relation to 'earned autonomy' status for Supporting Families Programme. CFW have reported that they have been successful in achieving this award and thanked all partners for their valuable contributions.
  • Pennine TASS Locality board was selected to be observed as part of the JTAI inspection on serious youth violence. The locality group was attended by a wide range of partners and initial feedback has been positive.
  • Youth Futures Careers and Education adviser introduced to Pennine EET group and agreement to meet regularly as a working group.
  • Youth Futures Foundation workshop engaged with Burnley Leadership Partnership to explore phase 2 funding bid of Connected Futures Thrive Programme as well as 800 young people across the district.

Strengthening Communities materials being produced and developing an accessible 'living scrapbook' of positive examples within education setting which demonstrate work which engages with their local community, provides learning opportunities for parents and extended family members, and connects families and their local community partners/assets.

Exit strategy

Review the overarching priority and working groups regularly at Locality Group and seek to identify the appropriate forum to sustain activity i.e., Community Safety Partnerships/Community Alcohol Partnerships, Skills and Employment Groups.

Strengthening Communities 'living scrapbook' to be supported on the LPDS platform so that it can be accessed and added to by settings.