Flying Start - Wales
Fran Dale RGN RHV MA
Team Leader Flying Start/Sure Start Wrexham
Why Flying Start
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Children within areas of multiple deprivation
suffer additional effects of disadvantage.
Targeted interventions can reduce the social
and educational risks associated with
deprived communities.
International evidence supports these
interventions which improve outcomes for
children in the long term.
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Why Flying Start
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The Welsh Assembly Government vision for
every child and young person in Wales.
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7 Core Aims translated the UN Convention on
the Rights of the Child.
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All children and young people to ‘have a
flying start in life’ (Core Aim 1).
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Where is Flying Start?
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Postcodes within Lower Super Output Areas
with the greatest levels of need, and/or
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Selected community school catchment areas,
based on the take up of free school meals.
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Identified by using the Welsh Index of
Multiple Deprivation (2005) .
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Flying Start - How
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Support through pregnancy from a Flying
Start Midwife and Health Visitor. This
includes a comprehensive ante-natal
assessment of need, with the offer of
appropriate packages of care before the baby
is born.
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Flying Start - How
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Intensive home visiting from Midwife, Health
Visitors, Nursery Nurses and Family Support
Workers after the baby is born.
Assessments based on the Framework for
the Assessment of Children in Need and their
Families ( 2001).
Utilising the Solihull Approach and the Home
Inventory Scales and Questionnaires
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Flying Start - How
Parenting Programmes, e.g.:
 Webster-Stratton’s Incredible Years
 Parenting Positively
 Handling Children’s Behaviour
 Triple P
 PIPPIN
 Stepping Stones and others requiring
rigorous evaluation
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Flying Start Wrexham
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‘Bend to Fit’ – Sure Start and Flying Start
now one team delivering services across both
areas.
Allocation Team Meetings – Nursery
Nurses/Family Support Workers receive
referrals from Midwife and Health Visitors to
provide tailored packages of care.
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Flying Start Wrexham
The Speech and Language team provide:
 Advice and support for supervisors in the
childcare settings.
 1:1 and group work therapy
 Home based provision
 Client led referrals
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Flying Start Wrexham
The Family Support Workers:
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A 7 day a week service, including early
mornings and evenings
Intensive packages of planned intervention
to support families and children in need
Nursery Nurse trained with additional high
level skills.
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Flying Start Wrexham
The Portage Service provides:
 A home visiting educational service for preschool children with additional support needs
 Weekly home visits
 Planned goal setting with carers
 An opportunity for parents and carers to
share their understanding of their child’s gifts,
abilities and support needs.
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Flying Start
Flying Start grants to local authorities total £27
million in 2008-9, and are projected to rise to
£31 million in 2010-11.
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