Year Ahead Delivery Plan 2024
Outcome: Children get the best start in life
| Ref | Activity |
Timescales for completion |
Lead officer | Lead directorate | Lead Cabinet Member |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 |
Commission, set-up and start roll out of Baby Packs Scheme to support families with essential items and child development. |
Quarter 4 |
Director of Public Health & Strategic Director for CYPS |
Adult Care, Housing and Public Health & CYPS |
Cabinet Member for ASC and Public Health
Cabinet Member for Children and Young People |
| 3.2 |
Increase the number of families registered with a Family Hub (from the current figure of 77% to a target of 90% of families registered at a family hub within 6 months of their child’s birth). |
Quarter 4 |
Assistant Director Early Help |
Children and Young People’s Services | Cabinet Member for Children and Young People |
| 3.3 |
Deliver 130 support sessions (5 sessions per week to be delivered during Quarter 3 and Quarter 4 following recruitment of additional officers) to enhance the under 5’s offer through the delivery of Rotherham’s Statutory Children’s Centres. |
Quarter 4 |
Assistant Director Early Help |
Children and Young People’s Services | Cabinet Member for Children and Young People |
Outcome: Children and young people safe from harm
| Ref | Activity |
Timescales for completion |
Lead officer | Lead directorate | Lead Cabinet Member |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.4 a) |
Provide new homes to make sure looked-after children and young people in Rotherham can stay in the borough:
a) Submit registration for a second two-bedroom home |
Quarter 2 | Assistant Director Safeguarding | Children and Young People’s Services | Cabinet Member for Children and Young People |
| Assistant Director Safeguarding | Children and Young People’s Services | Cabinet Member for Children and Young People | |||
| 3.4 b) |
b) Submit registration for a third two-bedroom home. |
Quarter 3 | Assistant Director Safeguarding | Children and Young People’s Services | Cabinet Member for Children and Young People |
| 3.4 c) | c) Submit registration for a fourth two-bedroom home. | Quarter 3 | Assistant Director Safeguarding | Children and Young People’s Services | Cabinet Member for Children and Young People |
| 3.4 d) | d) Submit registration for a fifth two-bedroom home. | Quarter 4 | |||
| 3.4 e) |
e) Submit registration for a sixth two-bedroom home. |
Quarter 4 | Assistant Director Safeguarding | Children and Young People’s Services | Cabinet Member for Children and Young People |
Outcome: Young people feel empowered to succeed and achieve their aspirations
| Ref | Activity |
Timescales for completion |
Lead officer | Lead directorate | Lead Cabinet Member |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.5 | Create seven resource bases to provide additional school places for children with special educational needs. | Quarter 4 | Interim Assistant Director Education and Inclusion | Children and Young People’s Services | Cabinet Member for Children and Young People |
| 3.6 |
Commission building work to develop the Eric Manns building into a new centre for children with special education needs and disabilities. |
Quarter 3 | Assistant Director Property and Facilities Services | Finance and Customer Services | Cabinet Member for Children and Young People |
| 3.7 | Deliver Independent Travel Training to 24 children and young people to increase independence, through the new Home to School Transport Policy. | Quarter 3 | Assistant Director Community Safety & Street Scene | Regeneration and Environment |
Cabinet Member for Children & Young People |
| 3.8 |
Engage through the Enterprise Adviser Network Project with all 27 Rotherham secondary schools and colleges, in the South Yorkshire Careers Hub to assist them enhance their careers provision, improve interactions with local employers and achieve at least 6 of the Gatsby benchmarks, used to monitor and grade careers provision. |
Quarter 4 | Assistant Director, Planning, Regeneration and Transportation | Regeneration and Environment |
Cabinet Member for Transport, Jobs and the Local Economy. |
Outcome: Children and young people have fun things to do and safe places to go
| Ref | Activity |
Timescales for completion |
Lead officer | Lead directorate | Lead Cabinet Member |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.9 | Work with children and young people across the borough to co-produce and launch the Children’s Capital of Culture 2025 | Quarter 3 | Assistant Director, Culture, Sport and Tourism | Regeneration and Environment | Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Social Inclusion & Neighbourhood Working. |
| 3.10 | Start the new 3-year Children’s Playgrounds Programme and deliver the first scheme. | Quarter 4 | Assistant Director, Culture, Sport and Tourism | Regeneration and Environment | Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Social Inclusion & Neighbourhood Working. |
| 3.11 a) |
Progress a new Water Splash facility at Clifton Park:
a) Conduct consultation with children, parents, and carers. |
Quarter 2 |
Assistant Director, Culture, Sport and Tourism | Regeneration and Environment | Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Social Inclusion & Neighbourhood Working. |
| 3.11 b) |
b) Commission a supplier to undertake the work in readiness for launch in July 2025. |
Quarter 4 |
Assistant Director, Culture, Sport and Tourism |
Regeneration and Environment | Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Social Inclusion & Neighbourhood Working. |
| 3.12 |
Deliver 208 support sessions (8 sessions per week to be delivered during Quarter 3 and Quarter 4 following recruitment of additional officers) to support young people to engage with universal youth provision. |
Quarter 4 | Assistant Director, Early Help | Children and Young People’s Services | Cabinet Member for Children and Young People |