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Cornwall Council’s One Vision Partnership Plan to improve children’s services is formally approved (6 April 2017)

Date: 06/04/2017
Duncan Lewis, Child Care Solicitors, Cornwall Council’s One Vision Partnership Plan to improve children’s services is formally approved

Cornwall Council has announced that its “One Vision” Partnership Plan, which aims to change the way services work together to improve the lives of children, young people and their families in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, has been formally approved by the council’s Cabinet.

The Plan has been produced jointly by Cornwall Council, the Council of the Isles of Scilly and NHS Kernow – in partnership with Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust.

It sets the foundation for a Children and Young People Transformation Plan 2017-2020.

Formally launched in January, the One Vision Plan covers a wide range of education, health and social care services, including education and early years’ services, support for children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), community child health services (including child and adolescent mental health services and early help services) – and children’s social care, including child protection, children in care and care leavers.

Cornwall Council’s Lead Member for Children and Young People, Andrew Wallis, said:

“This is not about cutting services for children, young people and families in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly – it is about improving services and building on the success of projects such as the Early Help Hub and our Multi Agency Referral Unit (MARU), where we are already working closely with our partners to deliver ground breaking services which are changing lives.

“We know that parents and carers and young people are not interested in which organisation runs a service – they just want to know that the service will be there when they need it.

“We already have strong relationships with our partners in health, schools, the police and the voluntary and community sector – developing the One Vision Plan will help us to deliver improved joined up services which meet the needs of our children, young people and families.”


Cornwall’s integrated multi-agency Early Help Hub was launched 18 months ago by Cornwall Council and Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, to provide a single point of contact for information, advice and guidance about Early Help services for children and young people and their families – as well as access to a range of universal and targeted Early Help services.

The first integrated Early Help Hub to be set up in the country, it is dedicated to quickly assessing any problem affecting a child or young person up to the age of 18 – and ensuring that they connect with the right support at the right time from the right service.

Staffed by professionals from both health and social care services, the Hub currently receives around 1,200 referrals a month from parents, GPs, school nurses, health visitors and other sources who have concerns about a child’s physical or emotional health, their behaviour at home, or issues at school.

The council says that each case is treated individually, with staff aiming to point the person making the referral towards the best help within 48 hours – this could mean linking them with teams in the community or voluntary services, resolving the problem over the phone, or providing them with access to self-help resources.

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