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Dec 24, 2017 · The programme aims to provide early support and intervention for parents and families, to prevent them waiting a long amount of time for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) community level support. Timid to Tiger is delivered by the local authority Multi-Agency Support Team (MAST) in Sheffield, with support from CAMHS Primary ...
- What Challenges Were Councils Seeking to address?
- Enhancing Representation and Participation
- Improving Outcomes and Services For Underrepresented Groups
- Tackling Root Causes and Historic Issues
- Empowering Individuals
- Building Bridges and Cohesive Communities
- Improved Evidence, Insight and Understanding
- Changing Procedures and Ways of Working
- Recognising Difference and Using Varied Engagement Tools
- Establishing Relationships and Trust
Before considering what engagement methods were most successful, it was important first to understand what motivates councils to engage underrepresented groups and what challenges they seek to address through engagement. Initiatives that focused on engaging underrepresented groups arose from a variety of challenges and opportunities. These ranged f...
For many councils, the main aim was to increase civic participation and representation among particular groups and communities. The outcome they sought was to encourage formal and informal civic participation within local democracy and decision-making. In some cases, historic mistrust between the target group and the council stood in the way of bet...
Many councils aim to engage underrepresented groups and increase their participation as a way to improve outcomes and services that they provide. Participant councils highlighted the importance of the voices of those with lived experience feeding into all stages of service design and delivery. By incorporating the perspectives of current, former an...
For some councils, efforts to raise civic participation and engagement was part of wider prevention efforts, seeking to tackle the root causes of particular challenges rather than responding to the downstream effects that arise from them. They saw civic participation and placing those with lived experience at the centre of decision-making as a key ...
Participants reported that improved civic participation empowered those involved – giving them confidence, knowledge, understanding and a strengthened sense of efficacy. This effect was not confined solely to underrepresented groups; council officers, elected members, VCS staff, and volunteers involved in the process also benefited. Several intervi...
Councils play a key facilitating role within local communities, but sometimes they can be difficult for the public to understand. In partnership with VCS organisations, councils can create the necessary environment for people to be heard by those with power and influence. This approach creates new connections within communities and provides the tim...
Understanding the needs, aspirations and ambitions of underrepresented groups based on their lived experience can significantly enhance local decision-making. Councils reported that effective engagement and participation from a broader range of the community increased insight and understanding, which enhance strategy development and service design....
Engaging underrepresented groups helped several councils identify barriers to participation, which arose as an unintended consequence of usual ways of working. For practical and rational reasons of management efficiency, councils organise services and other activity across different directorates and departments. Each department comes with its own w...
To increase participation of underrepresented groups, the council must acknowledge that individuals within these groups are not homogenous, recognise internal diversity and act accordingly. Communities are comprised of multiple perspectives and define themselves in a myriad of different ways. Particular groups defined using official demographics ar...
Councils report that trust and relationship-building were crucial to the success of approaches taken by councils and their partners. Without trust, the prospects of effective engagement are greatly diminished. Negative perceptions of public institutions can impact trust, and relationships can be damaged by ‘consultation fatigue’, which can lower ex...
Jan 18, 2019 · Local authorities in England have a statutory duty to provide a range of services to their communities. These include: education services; children’s safeguarding and social care; adult social care; waste collection; planning and housing services; road maintenance; and library services.
Mar 4, 2021 · In The Community Paradigm, New Local sets out the case for a fundamental shift in how public services work. The report made an urgent case for a wholesale response to the twin trends of rising demand on public services and people’s unmet appetite for more influence over their lives.
Jan 23, 2018 · Overview. Growing financial and workforce pressures are having an impact on the ability of community service providers to meet the needs of the population and to make a reality of the vision set out in the NHS five year forward view.
Jan 13, 2020 · This briefing provides information on the definition and identification of "children in need" as set out in the Children Act 1989, the assessment process, and the services available to children in need and their families in England.
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The Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Health and Wellbeing Fund was launched on 4 August 2021 with a focus on providing support to families and children’s services due to a predicted increase in paediatric respiratory viral infections during autumn and winter 2021. Funding is available for both local and national VCSE ...
