Pennine

Education Partnership Officers

Alicia Dixon & Alan Garner

Period

Summer 1 – May 2024

Priority

Living Safely in East Lancashire

Intended Outcomes

  • Communicate Public Health and wider partnership messages around vaping alongside smoking cessation and substance misuse trends to all education settings. A partnership approach to disrupt problematic selling to and targeting of children. Increase reporting of vaping concerns to trading standards and illicit substances to relevant partners. 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 of the proposed pilots.
  • Explore opportunities to use TASS to build a partnership to explore issues relating to strengthening relationships in communities across the locality and celebrate positive practice in this area.

Activity last period

  • Suicide Prevention working group in Hyndburn has continued to work on actions to improve communication pathways and increase the take up of suicide awareness training in the district. This work will be aligned with Public Health action plans as they develop.
  • Continued work with Lancashire Violence Reduction Network to provide Trauma Informed (TI) training to schools, settings and partners. Men at Work pilots ongoing to feedback to author Michael Conroy after SATs early June and materials to be reviewed ahead of sharing in the autumn term across settings. 
  • Agreed strategy with Community Alcohol Partnership (CAP), Regional Advisor for North West of England that the vaping priority firmly sits with the CAP on a district level and stronger links being explored with Community Safety plans across Pennine.
  • Engaged with schools, settings and partners on a district level to embed the Public Health response regarding Vaping and smoking cessation. Linked secondary heads to the Lancashire wide Substance Misuse Prevention working group
  • Multi agency 'Living Safely' raising awareness session for parents. A number of partners have now agreed to support this work including Hyndburn Leisure, Hyndburn Borough Council, Lancashire Violence Reduction Network, Children's Social Care / Empower Team, The Ivison Trust and Children and Family Wellbeing Service.  We are hoping to plan the event for the summer term (Autumn if necessary). 
  • Weapons and knife crime resources working group- continue the transition pilot alongside the UCLAN videographer; storyboarding and filming of the content to promote discussion took place on 29th April. Film dates secured for 6th
  • Burnley Connected Futures phase 2 pilots to be the focus of co production workshop held on 23rd April to plan next steps. Burnley Education partnership cluster attended the event as well as community partners and pilots are planned for Autumn 2024 and to be evaluated early 2025 to inform the phase 2 Youth Futures Foundation bid.
  • Strengthening communities working group established and work is well under way capturing the enthusiasm of schools to create a video for the new folder on the LPDS website. A folder has been created and a "living scrapbook" will develop over time.

Planned activity next period

  • Meeting to be arranged with LVRN Health lead, Emergency Dept Navigators and EPO'S 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 and in Pennine in regular meetings with VRN projects ie Champions
  • Vaping working group to meet so that information can be shared regarding the CAPs in the 5 districts across the east. Education representation on these groups will be encouraged so that current themes, issues and concerns can be discussed on a local level.  The vaping priority will be exited from TASS Locality Group.
  • Convene initial working group for the multi agency awareness raising for parents around 'Living Safely'.
  • Contact Active Lancashire to explore how their work fits under the 'Living Safely' priorities.
  • Convene a meeting in the summer term with all districts and providers of education, employment and training opportunities for vulnerable groups across Pennine to share current picture and practice in each area.
  • Strengthening Communities- continue to gather examples of good practice across schools and settings that can be added to the LPDS Virtual scrapbook. Next working group to be held on 5th June 2024.

Impact so far

  • 26 Virtual Reality Attachment and Trauma training courses across Pennine
  • Vaping priority to be exited and sustained through the CAP network in East Lancashire and linked to Community Safety priorities where applicable.
  • Youth Futures Careers and Education adviser introduced to Pennine EET group and embedded within all settings in priority area of Burnley.
  • Youth Futures Foundation workshop engaged with Burnley Leadership Partnership to support the next pilot phase of funding being secured by the partnership and the pilot activity alongside local employers will go live in Autumn 2024.
  • 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.