Growth and development.pdf
Growth and development.pdf Growth and development.pdf
East LothianThe Council currently uses a range of quality assurance mechanisms for criminal justice services,including case reviews. They are moving towards more outcome/output based methods. Allcriminal justice work is to be monitored using an OLM database which went live early in 2002.The new system covers risk assessment, action planning, service inputs, breaches and reviews,targets and outcomes. It will produce a range of management reports and allow individualfeedback to workers.Breaking the Cycle, East Lothian’s youth crime initiative, co-ordinates work with young peoplein transition between the children’s hearings and criminal justice social work services. It linkschildren and families and criminal justice social work teams, the Reporter, the Procurator Fiscaland independent agencies. A criminal justice social worker has been seconded to the projectsince 2001 dealing with all 16-18 year olds referred to the diversion scheme. The project isbeing externally evaluated.5. FinanceService Area(£000)Children’s Services £2,491 £3,696 £2,538 £4,422Community Care £13,990 £13,493 £14,665 £13,565Adult Offenders £77 -£31Other SW Services £1,687 £1,683 £1,705 £2,096Total £18,168 £18,949 £18,907 £20,051Spend per headSpend per head £207.59 £219.66Quartile 3 3GAE1999-2000Final netOut turn1999-20001999-2000GAE2000-2001Final netOut turn2000-20012000-2001Criminal Justice services receive funding from the Scottish Executive, £464,829 was providedin 2000-2001.East Lothian spent more than GAE on Social Work Services in 1999-2000 and 2000-2001.The overall social work spend per head is relatively low.83
Staff6. StaffingVacanciesWTE1999actualWTE1999per 1,000Managers & central staff 37 0.4 4 36 0.4 4Frontline staff 365 4.0 3 389 4.3 3Other 84 0.9 4 59 0.6 4Total 486 5.4 4 483 5.3 4Vacancies2000 % Vacancies2000Quartile1999% Vacancies2000ScotlandWTE2000actualWTE2000per 1,000Vacancies2001 % Vacancies2001Quartile2000% Vacancies2001ScotlandSWs with adults 0 0 7.8 0 0 10.9SWs with children 0 0 7.4 2 4.7 10.7SWs with offenders 0 0 7.5 0 0 7.2Generic workers 0 0 8.0 0 0 12.7Total 0 0 7.7 2 3.3 10.5East Lothian have relatively low rates of all staff. The number of ‘other’ staff – already low in1999 – was further reduced in 2000. There are just two vacancies in children’s services, nonein the other areas of social work.East Lothian is an area of high employment, and local competition for unqualified staff hascreated recruitment and retention problems, particularly in day care services. The Council isenhancing personal social services as a career by offering SVQ level 2 to all domiciliary staffand by enriching the work of social work assistants.Professional staffing is stable, as is the staffing in residential childcare units, partly a result ofthe investment in training and professional development that was made before reorganisation.Budgetary restrictions could put this situation at risk, especially as older staff begin to leavethe department.7. Modernising servicesThe Council has improved its race equality practice, prompted partly by work with asylumseekers, coming mainly from Kosovo, and partly by work with travellers. There is a strongcorporate lead for race equality under a generic Equal Opportunities Committee, and preparationsfor a Race Equality Scheme are well advanced. The Council has access to an East Lothian EthnicMinority Forum for consultative purposes.East Lothian had a modest participation in the first round of the Modernising Governmentfinanced projects, but is preparing a series of bids for the second round.Social work services are implementing the CareFirst suite of information systems, which shouldall be in place by the end of 2002. Management reports from the systems are fed directly intothe quarterly production of balanced scorecards. Communication between social work andeducation information systems is rudimentary, but the interface with health is better developedand will support the use of single shared assessment.84
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Staff6. StaffingVacanciesWTE1999actualWTE1999per 1,000Managers & central staff 37 0.4 4 36 0.4 4Frontline staff 365 4.0 3 389 4.3 3Other 84 0.9 4 59 0.6 4Total 486 5.4 4 483 5.3 4Vacancies2000 % Vacancies2000Quartile1999% Vacancies2000Scotl<strong>and</strong>WTE2000actualWTE2000per 1,000Vacancies2001 % Vacancies2001Quartile2000% Vacancies2001Scotl<strong>and</strong>SWs with adults 0 0 7.8 0 0 10.9SWs with children 0 0 7.4 2 4.7 10.7SWs with offenders 0 0 7.5 0 0 7.2Generic workers 0 0 8.0 0 0 12.7Total 0 0 7.7 2 3.3 10.5East Lothian have relatively low rates of all staff. The number of ‘other’ staff – already low in1999 – was further reduced in 2000. There are just two vacancies in children’s services, nonein the other areas of social work.East Lothian is an area of high employment, <strong>and</strong> local competition for unqualified staff hascreated recruitment <strong>and</strong> retention problems, particularly in day care services. The Council isenhancing personal social services as a career by offering SVQ level 2 to all domiciliary staff<strong>and</strong> by enriching the work of social work assistants.Professional staffing is stable, as is the staffing in residential childcare units, partly a result ofthe investment in training <strong>and</strong> professional <strong>development</strong> that was made before reorganisation.Budgetary restrictions could put this situation at risk, especially as older staff begin to leavethe department.7. Modernising servicesThe Council has improved its race equality practice, prompted partly by work with asylumseekers, coming mainly from Kosovo, <strong>and</strong> partly by work with travellers. There is a strongcorporate lead for race equality under a generic Equal Opportunities Committee, <strong>and</strong> preparationsfor a Race Equality Scheme are well advanced. The Council has access to an East Lothian EthnicMinority Forum for consultative purposes.East Lothian had a modest participation in the first round of the Modernising Governmentfinanced projects, but is preparing a series of bids for the second round.Social work services are implementing the CareFirst suite of information systems, which shouldall be in place by the end of 2002. Management reports from the systems are fed directly intothe quarterly production of balanced scorecards. Communication between social work <strong>and</strong>education information systems is rudimentary, but the interface with health is better developed<strong>and</strong> will support the use of single shared assessment.84
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