The Lambeth Early Action
Partnership (LEAP)
Annual Report March 2016
Lambeth Early Action Partnership
Contents
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Introduction
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Looking back
The LEAP vision
Goals
Portfolio of LEAP services
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Where we are now
The LEAP service design process
LEAP ‘live’ services
Test and learn
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Family Foundations – a case study
Delivering LEAP in children’s centres – case study
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LEAP parents’ voice
8 LEAP CAN service design – case study
9 Promoting learning from LEAP – case study
10 Parent Representatives – case study
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Capital programme
Wayfinding and signage
Table of capital projects
Financial position
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Looking forward
LEAP needs you – get involved in 2016!
Priorities 2016-17
Workforce
Community engagement
Evaluation
Introduction
Welcome to Lambeth Early Action Partnership’s
first Annual Report.
Since the programme was awarded funding by the Big Lottery
in March 2015, a huge amount has been achieved:
• The LEAP partnership’s commitment to early intervention
and preventative work has gone from strength to strength
• The recruitment and training of parent champions to
promote LEAP and other early years services means that
we are beginning to strengthen communities
• The involvement of local parents, communities and
practitioners in the process of designing services has
meant that LEAP is listening and responding to local need
• The evaluation and monitoring systems that are being
established mean that LEAP will have an in-depth
understanding of how and why services are working
and how they can be improved
• Establishing a baseline of the skills and values of our
workforce and parents means that we can deliver training
and development activities that meet their needs.
As we enter the second year of the programme there are
many exciting and interesting challenges ahead.
We know that there is strong evidence that pregnancy and
the first few years of life are crucial for building the foundations
Lambeth Early Action Partnership (LEAP) is made up of local organisations,
communities, parents and carers across four wards in Lambeth. LEAP works
in an innovative way to transform early years services, working with local
families to build stronger and more supportive communities. LEAP’s purpose
is to enable individuals and organisations to collaborate so that every child
has A Better Start in life, from pregnancy up to their fourth birthday.
for future health and wellbeing. LEAP and the other
A Better Start areas across the UK support babies and young
children to be happy and healthy. We are committed to
prevent problems that affect children’s outcomes and
will ensure families can access the support they need.
At the same time the programme aims to change the
way local agencies work with families and each other.
In Lambeth, LEAP is a unique opportunity to test these
approaches over ten years, and add to the evidence about
what works to ensure children have the best start in life.
We hope you enjoy reading our first Annual Report – and
don’t forget: if you live in the LEAP area, you can get
involved with our work! Details for how to keep in touch
with LEAP are at the end of this report.
I look forward to working with you in the coming year.
Laura McFarlane
LEAP Director
Annual Report 2016|1 Looking back
Our vision is for Lambeth to be the best place in the world for
children to be born and grow up and we will accept no less
than for all of our children to be healthy, happy, confident,
safe and able to achieve their aspirations.
We will do this through a focus on three outcomes for
children, from pregnancy to their fourth birthday:
1) Social and emotional development
2) Communication, language and literacy
3) Diet, nutrition and physical activity
Plus a fourth, ‘systems change’, which means
transforming the way maternity and early years
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‘Use the assets we
have…the community’s
strength and vibrancy…
this is about
empowerment’
To achieve this, we committed to delivering new
projects across the three LEAP outcomes areas,
as well as the wider system. We are working with
our partners and the community to co-design all
LEAP services.
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Clinical Commissioning Group,
February 2014
We illustrated this with the LEAP Rainbow
(below) which shows what success would
look like for families.
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‘We have a bold,
ambitious vision …
one that is aspirational.’
We said we would achieve our goals
through a ‘public health approach’.
This means developing services that
support individual children and families
as well as their wider environment.
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The LEAP vision
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In February 2014, the LEAP Partnership submitted its bid to the
Big Lottery Fund. In June that year, we were awarded £36m
over ten years to improve outcomes for babies and young
children as part of the A Better Start programme, which is also
running in Blackpool, Bradford, Nottingham and Southend-onSea. We have started in Coldharbour, Stockwell, Tulse Hill and
Vassall wards and will spread our learning across Lambeth and
beyond. Let’s look back at our bid to see where we began…
Victoria Sherwin,
LEAP Board member,
February 2014
Portfolio of LEAP services
Social and emotional
development
Communication
and language
Diet and nutrition
Parent and Infant Relationship Service
(PAIRS)
Early Literacy Programme for
0-2 years
Working with families in
community settings and
families’ homes to increase
support for the
communication and
language development of
babies and young children.
Additional services will be
developed to support
families who have English as
an additional language.
Reading and early literacy
will be promoted for all
families across the LEAP
area.
Healthy Catering Commitment
Working with local businesses to improve healthy food
options in the area.
Breastfeeding Peer Support
Breastfeeding support to first time mothers in community
settings, at home or in the hospital.
Community Activity and Nutrition (CAN)
One-to-one and group support to empower pregnant
women to make healthy food choices and increase
physical exercise during and after their pregnancy.
LEAP into Healthy Living!
Supporting the development of and access to
community- based activities that focus on improving
nutrition and increasing exercise.
Improved Oral Health in Early Years Settings
Improving oral health through supervised tooth brushing
and promotion of oral health in early years.
Helping parents get closer to their baby
through the provision of one-to-one or
group therapeutic support.
Community Perinatal Mental Health
Supporting the emotional wellbeing of
families during pregnancy and the year
following birth through improved
identification and referral.
Supporting families living in violent
households
Working with Lambeth’s Violence
Against Women and Girls strategy, LEAP
will develop innovative programmes to
support families and children affected
by violence.
Cross-cutting projects
Strengthening families through parenting programmes, increased support in pregnancy with caseload midwifery and centering pregnancy,
and by extending the Family Nurse Partnership. Social marketing to empower families to make positive changes for their health and wellbeing.
GP Failsafe programme to ensure more families can access support if they need it.
Supporting better social networks and relationships with LEAP Parent Champions, peer support and more parent spaces in children’s centres.
Creating a family-friendly environment with capital projects, wayfinding and signage, healthier food options, smoke-free homes, and support
for families in overcrowded housing.
Systems change through workforce transformation, funding and governance that supports prevention and early intervention, better use of
data and information, and joined up working with the whole family.
Annual Report 2016|3 Where we are now
• The LEAP Partnership that worked together to
develop the bid is now the LEAP Partnership Board –
the governing body for our programme. And our
commitment hasn’t changed.
families and will meet their needs. This process is based on
‘implementation science’, which evidence shows makes a
real difference to how effective services are at engaging
and benefitting those they are intended for.
• We spent some time reviewing our plans from the bid,
and in April 2015 these plans were given the go-ahead by
the Big Lottery Fund.
Service design is integral to LEAP, and the views of the
community are reflected in all that we do. The process itself
involves as many steps as are needed to develop a shared
understanding of who the service is for, what outcomes it will
achieve, how and where it will be offered.
• Seven LEAP services are now up and running.
• Over 50 co-production events, workshops and focus
groups have taken place.
• Sixteen of the 25 LEAP services are in the process of
‘service design’, and are being co-produced with
parents, the community and other local partners.
The LEAP service design process
Since LEAP officially started, the focus of the partnership has
been on a process of ‘service design’ – working together
with parents, carers, the community and local workers to
ensure that what we offer the community is attractive to
Co-producing the
design, understanding
local needs and what
might work
Preparing to deliver,
engaging staff,
training, the detail
about how it will work
Building on any available evidence about how services
work, partners get together in a series of workshops, focus
groups and/or demonstrations of the service to inform how it
could best be offered to LEAP families. The final design is
written up into a document that sets out clearly how it will
work, and helps to develop a shared understanding about
the service for families and professionals. You can read
about how the service design process has worked in
practice on page 8.
The design is not the end of the process – the diagram below
sets out how service design will be ongoing throughout LEAP:
Starting to deliver on a
small scale, quickly
‘testing and learning’
and refining as we go
Full operation,
offering to more
families, stabilising
the service
Parents, carers, the community, voluntary sector, Council and health services are
involved in the testing and learning throughout, revisiting steps when necessary
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Sustaining the service,
but always reflecting
and repeating steps
as needed
LEAP ‘live’ services
Below is a table of LEAP services in the ‘starting to deliver’ phase. Each is taking a pilot approach: starting small to test
implementation and delivery in order to learn what works best before being expanded to more families:
LEAP service
Start date
Beneficiaries
On target?
Parent and Infant Relationship Support (1-1)
April
2015
11 families and
their children
Yes. The PAIRS team are in the set-up phase and working with
families while they continue their specialist training with OXPIP
(http://www.oxpip.org.uk/)
June
2015
22 new pregnant
women recruited
Yes. LEAP funding has supported the extension of FNP across
Lambeth.
December
2015
35 new Parent
Champions
Yes. More Champions will be recruited and trained later this year.
The focus is now on supporting the current Champions with their
work in the community.
December
2015
8 trainees, 20
local managers Yes. The training structure is in place, workshops for managers have
been delivered and plans are in place to roll out the training to 230
local workers and volunteers over this year.
January
2016
5 expectant
couples
Yes. The successful first course is halfway through, with 100%
attendance so far. Further work is ongoing in order to increase
identifcation of eligible families and promotion of the service. See
case study on page 6.
January
2016
12 pregnant
women
Yes. CAN is in the pilot phase, testing how women are recruited
into the service and how, where, and when it is best delivered.
Initial take-up has exceeded expected numbers.
January
2016
6 women and
babies
Yes. The successful first course has just finished at Liz Atkinson
Children’s Centre.
Therapeutic support for attachment and
attunement
Family Nurse Partnership (FNP)
A voluntary programme for first-time young
mothers from pregnancy until their child is two
Parent Champions
Supporting parents and carers to use their skills and
knowledge to bring about positive change in their
own lives and for the whole community
Brief Encounters
Training to provide those who work with families
with tools and skills to identify families who may
benefit from relationship support
Family Foundations
A course for couples expecting their first child
together, giving them tools to parent together and
support each other
Community Activity and Nutrition (CAN)
Supporting healthy lifestyles for pregnant women
with a high BMI
PAIRS group support
“Bond with your Baby” group sessions
Annual Report 2016|5 Test and learn
What does ‘on target’ mean for LEAP services?
LEAP is about more than numbers. We want our services
to have a wide reach into the community, and we’re
very ambitious about the number of families we want to
work with.
It’s not just about how many people are coming into contact
with LEAP: it’s also about who they are – we want to use our
resources in the right places to really make a difference.
LEAP is a ‘test and learn’ programme which means we are
learning from and adapting our
services all the time. This is sometimes
alongside delivering them, to ensure
they are as suitable and attractive for
local families as possible. So on
occasion, having fewer families
accessing a service might mean it’s
because we’ve stopped what we
were doing, made our service better
and then started it back up again.
Therefore, when we say a service is
‘on target’, we are reflecting on how
well it is working, as well as how many
are using it.
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C ase S t u dy
Family Foundations – ‘test and learn’
Family Foundations – a programme for couples expecting their first child – was offered at
Liz Atkinson children’s centre from January-February 2016. The course was run by specially
trained facilitators, and offered in the early evening to increase the opportunity for both
expectant parents to attend. This first course was intended to be a small pilot, in order to
test what works before offering it more widely.
The success factors for the pilot include attendance levels. Attendance levels were 100%
for the course, and mums and dads to be who completed the programme were very
positive about how it will help them to parent their child together while supporting each
other. Feedback from facilitators delivering this for the first time was also positive and the
course is seen as an important opportunity to support families from an early stage to build
a strong foundation for their child.
However, challenges also emerged. In
particular: identifying couples to sign up to
the programme, supporting maternity
services to promote the course, sharing data
to enable them to do so, and ensuring there
was enough capacity to follow up if further
support was needed.
The second Family Foundations course will be
delayed until these challenges can be
resolved. This approach is part of LEAP, and
does not mean that there has been a failure
in the service – rather it is a positive
opportunity to improve and target services
more effectively, so that more families can
access and benefit from them. It also helps us
identify across the programme the barriers
that may be in the way for both referring
services and families, so we can work
together to resolve them.
Family Foundations will be offered again
when it has even greater potential to attract
and support LEAP families.
C ase S t u dy
Delivering LEAP in children’s centres
Maria Morton, Outreach Worker,
Liz Atkinson Children’s Centre
I was involved in some of the early LEAP meetings, shaping
the bid to the Big Lottery Fund. It was clear from the
beginning that the programme would be very connected
to the work of children’s centres, and relevant to my role
as Outreach Worker. I see LEAP as a chance to do things
differently, offer more specialised services and work with
new families.
Being part of LEAP is making a real difference. At Liz Atkinson
we are offering Family Foundations for couples and also
Bond With Your Baby groups. For the first time, the centre is
working with parents to be, including couples, which means
the chance to meet more dads and support them too.
Engaging families earlier in this way means we can build a
relationship before the baby is born and support them at
every stage, from breastfeeding to beyond. It’s also an
opportunity for families to learn about children’s centres as
not all of them know about what we offer.
Working with families earlier, and building their trust in what
we do, means more preventative work, identifying families’
needs earlier and making sure they get the right support. The
focus of the new services on relationships also means we are
part of building a stable foundation for LEAP babies.
LEAP is giving those of us who work in children’s centres the
opportunity to develop new skills that we can then apply to all
of our work. And it also means an opportunity to work and train
alongside other professionals such as health visitors and
midwifery teams, as well as LEAP Parent Champions who have
been fantastic in increasing awareness about what we do.
It has been challenging too – fitting LEAP into the centre’s
programme and delivering the new groups alongside our
outreach work and other services. We need to be flexible,
but I can see the real benefit of the LEAP approach which is to
start up on a small scale, see what works best, learn from it and
then offer it to more families. Even the practical things need to
be tested (such as knowing the best time of day to offer a
group session) if we are to make sure LEAP is accessible to all.
In future I am excited to see LEAP services offered beyond the
four wards, and for more of the local workforce to be
equipped with new skills and knowledge, so that more families
can benefit from what we are achieving by working together.
Annual Report 2016|7 C ase S t u dy
The LEAP parents’ voice
Parents, carers and the community are at the heart of
everything LEAP does. There are many ways in which parents
and carers are involved in designing and driving the
programme, representing the voice of their communities
and supporting others. Parents are equal partners in LEAP,
working side by side with partners from local services, the
Council and health teams.
Working in the community
Parent Champions
There are currently 35 LEAP Parent Champions. They are
representatives within their local area. They help other
parents and carers to feel confident about using their skills
and knowledge to bring about positive change – both in
their own lives and for the whole community.
‘I want to be a voice for the
community that we serve,
bringing to reality the views of
the community, showing what
is really happening and to
positively challenge the
assumptions of others’
LEAP Parent Champion
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Co-production – designing LEAP services
Community Activity and Nutrition Programme (CAN)
The CAN programme, which began in January 2016, was originally a research study
run by St Thomas’s Hospital, working with groups of pregnant women who had a
body mass index (BMI) over 30, to make changes to their nutrition and physical
activity levels in order to support their own and their baby’s health. LEAP worked with
the CAN team to turn this study into a new service for pregnant women in
our wards.
Through a rigorous process of service design, local women, working alongside
practitioners, co-designed significant enhancements to the original CAN approach,
to give it the best chance of success in improving outcomes for mother and child. As
a direct result of parents’ involvement, these changes were made:
• CAN will now be available to women with a BMI of over 25, meaning more
pregnant women will benefit
• It now includes a family session, so that older children, partners and extended
family can see for themselves the ways in which healthy changes can be made
and how they can support the woman at home
• The CAN manual, which all women in the programme receive, will now include
healthy recipes that reflect the diverse cultures of the LEAP wards
• A breastfeeding element has been
added into the service, to promote
this in line with LEAP’s other work
• Translation and interpretation will
now be available to support
women to access the service
• CAN will now link to and promote
‘walk and talk’ groups for women
who have finished the programme
but want to keep in touch with and
continue to motivate each other,
increasing the chance that CAN
will make a lasting difference to
the women and their families
Families enjoying a LEAP
CAN demonstration
C ase S t u dy
Promoting learning from LEAP
Andrea and Sylvia
Parent Champions and Representatives play an
important role in promoting the importance of involving
communities in the design and governance of local
services – and in spreading the learning from LEAP so that
other areas and families around the
country can benefit.
In September 2015, LEAP Parent
Champions Andrea and Sylvia spoke at a
parliamentary reception at the House of
Commons about their experiences of
working with other parents and
professionals to support families within
their community.
The reception was held by the National
Children’s Bureau to launch its report Poor
Beginnings: Health Inequalities among
young children in England. Andrea and
Sylvia, who spoke alongside Dr Ann
Hoskins, Deputy Director for Health &
Wellbeing at Public Health England,
shared their perspective about the
importance of parents’ insight into how
best to support children’s outcomes.
Governance
Parent Representatives on the Board
The LEAP Board membership includes 11 Parent Represen­tatives
from our diverse communities. These parents and carers shape
the programme, hold partners to account for how well LEAP is
engaging local families and, in turn, ensure the voice of the
community is heard. Read Malika’s story on page 10.
Monitoring and evaluation
Local parents are being trained in community research methods,
supporting LEAP to capture valuable data and learning while
also having the opportunity to learn new skills.
LEAP workforce
Local parents are part of interview panels for key LEAP staff,
deciding who works alongside them in the programme.
Andrea and Sylvia
speaking at the House
of Commons, above,
and featuring in the
Brixton Bugle, right
Annual Report 2016|9 C ase S t u dy
The role of LEAP Parent Representatives
Malika’s story
I have been involved with LEAP since the partnership was
putting together the bid to the Big Lottery Fund. I got
involved because I saw LEAP as an opportunity to do things
differently, to empower the people in our communities and
to show they are our greatest asset. Lambeth is rich in its
diversity, but to really engage communities, we need
representatives who can reach out to them, and bring
them to us. Only this way can we make the most of our
resources and use them wisely. Otherwise we risk our
services becoming an offer that people don’t want…and
if you always do what you’ve always done, you get what
you’ve always got!
In January 2014, I was part of the two strategy days that
the partnership held in order to shape the LEAP bid. There
was magic in these two days: partners including Chief
Executives, health professionals, academics, parents and
others got together with a shared vision and an equal role
to play in shaping
LEAP. Grasping and
listening to the views
of our diverse
communities is very
precious – and this is
why I went on to
become a Parent
Representative, part of
the LEAP Board. The
Board is in its infancy
but already plays an
Members of the LEAP Board
celebrating winning our
funding from the Big Lottery
Fund, June 2014
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important role in ensuring the community remains at the heart
of LEAP. Parent Representatives are the voice of parents in the
LEAP wards, and in turn have a role in spreading the word from
LEAP back to the community, empowering others to have
their views heard. This is not without its challenges. The Board
gives Parent Representatives the space to have their voice
heard but it is a new way of working and will take time to
embed.
Looking forward, my role as Parent Representative is to speak
up for the community and work alongside others on the Board
to make sure people see the opportunity we have to change
the way services are delivered and how parents are involved
in decision making. I have a role in the bigger picture, in which
LEAP can be an identity that bonds communities and services
together. If we can do this – empower our assets and show
their potential – LEAP can lead the way not just for Lambeth or
London but across the world. Personally, I will continue to work
with the other Parent Representatives and support them and
other Board members to recognise how important they are,
and to use the equal voice we have been given.
Capital programme
LEAP capital programme
The LEAP capital programme is ambitious in its scale
for children and families. Throughout 2015 the Capital
Board, which meets monthly, have had a very busy time
developing plans for the eleven schemes that are going
ahead as part of the overall capital programme.
Good progress has been made in what has proved to be
a challenging set of legal requirements, and establishing
a partnership approach with the capital team in the
local authority.
Over the summer of 2015 consultation events were held
at many of the proposed LEAP sites, and families and
professionals were able to say what was important to
them in terms of developing new spaces for children
and their families.
The LEAP capital programme will significantly enhance
LEAP’s ability to deliver its programme in a range of
locations across the four wards. Children’s centres will
benefit from the creation of a health room, parents room
and multi- agency office space. The estate-based projects
will offer small space on some of our estates to deliver parts
of the LEAP programme to local communities, and One
O’clock Clubs will benefit from small pieces of work to
enhance their existing space.
Sensory Play area proposed for Early Years Hub on
Cowley Estate
View of an early years garden
New entrance to Jubilee Children’s Centre
Parents’ room
Wayfinding and signage
It is important that families, local professionals and the
community are able to find their way to buildings and
sources of support. A part of the capital programme will
look at how people find their way around their area, and
how families know where they can go for advice.
We have recently begun consultation about signage
and wayfinding to our LEAP buildings. Local parents
and professionals worked with a specialist architect
to identify our priorities. This work will run alongside the
capital programme.
Annual Report 2016|11 Summary of LEAP capital projects
Capital projects are due to commence throughout the autumn of 2016.
Site
Planned works
Planning
permission received?
Children’s centres
Loughborough Children’s Centre
Building extension Design work ongoing
Liz Atkinson Children’s Centre
Building extension
n/a
Jubilee Children’s Centre
Building extension
✔
St Stephens Children’s Centre
Building extension
✔
Cowley Road Early Years Hub
Improve early years playground and improve connection
between community centre and outside space
n/a
Loughborough Early Years Hub
Create early years and family garden – Harper House n/a
Tulse Hill Early Years Hub
Internal and external improvements – Jubilee Hall n/a
Murcell Hill Early Years Hub
Internal and external improvements to Murcell Hall n/a
Brockwell One O’clock Club
Environmental improvements – internal and external.
Improvement to early years garden, improve signage ✔
Max Roach One O’clock Club
Improvements to entry and buggy storage ✔
Early years hubs
One o’clock clubs
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Financial position
In addition to the funding of £36m awarded by Big Lottery
Fund, an additional £1.8m in ‘leverage’ funding was
committed by Lambeth Council and Clinical
Commissioning Group.
Spend to date has been less than expected, which reflects
the slower pace at which services have been co-designed
and got up and running. We expect the pace to pick up
over the coming financial year.
The pie-chart shows spend to date according to each of
LEAP’s key outcome areas. Expenditure includes costs
related to the service design phase, as well as spend on
delivery of the services that are now up and running:
Social and emotional programmes include: Overcrowded
Housing, Parenting Programmes, Parent Infant Relationship
Support (PAIRS), Perinatal Mental Health
Communication and language programmes include:
development of the Early Literacy Programme
LEAP spend by outome area
(Big Lottery and leverage funds)
169,514
413,166
276,255
188,524
Diet and nutrition programmes include: Community
Activity and Nutrition (CAN), LEAP into Healthy Lifestyles,
Oral Health, Healthy Catering commitment, Smoke Free
Homes, Breastfeeding
Systems change includes: Workforce Development
Social and emotional
Projects split across the four outcome areas: Family Nurse
Partnership, Parent Champions, GP Programme, Capital
Programme, Community Development
Communication and language
Diet and nutrition
Systems change
Spend to March 2016
Annual Report 2016|13 Looking forward
LEAP needs you!
In the coming months, the following LEAP services are being designed with parents, local workers
and other partners, ready to start delivering to families throughout 2016 and early 2017.
LEAP outcome area
(see page 3)
LEAP service
When
Cross-cutting Support for families living in overcrowded housing
in the LEAP area
Design underway
Communication, language and literacy
Early literacy – an innovative new service based on the
Making it REAL project
http://www.ncb.org.uk/ecu/making-it-real Design underway
Diet and nutrition, social
and emotional
Breastfeeding peer support
From April 2016
Diet and nutrition
LEAP into Healthy Lifestyles – a community-based initiative
to support nutrition and physical activity
From April 2016
Systems change
GP ‘Failsafe’ programme, working with LEAP GPs to develop a
proactive system for supporting families with young children
Spring-Summer 2016
Cross-cutting
Social marketing
Summer 2016
Social and emotional
Perinatal mental health Summer 2016
Social and emotional
Services relating to violence against women and girls Autumn 2016
Diet and nutrition
Improving oral health
Autumn 2016
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Priorities for next period
In addition to expanding our live services, and designing others, we will be
focusing on three key areas for the year ahead, building on our work so far.
Workforce
The focus of the last year has been on training practitioners
to deliver specific services such as Family Foundations, as
well as design and delivery of key workforce development
opportunities such as Brief Encounters (see page 6), which
gives workers new skills they can use in their day-to-day
practice. This is alongside developing a broader workforce
strategy for LEAP. To inform this, a baseline questionnaire has
been issued to local workers to understand what the
workforce want in terms of learning opportunities linked to
LEAP outcome areas.
The results of the baseline survey will inform the workforce
and learning offer for 2017, focusing on specific training
Want to take part?
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needs identified by local workers. This offer will be coproduced with our partners. For 2016, we are focusing on
two main areas of work:
First, a universal learning offer, to build a shared foundation
across the LEAP workforce about our core outcome areas.
The offer will take the form of a series of workshops – open to
all sectors – starting in the summer with a focus on social and
emotional development. The workshops will be co-designed
with partners to ensure they build a shared understanding,
knowledge and vocabulary among the LEAP workforce,
and provide an opportunity for them to share their current
practice and learn from each other. Keep an eye on our
website www.leaplambeth.org.uk for details.
Secondly, we are excited to be working with Dr Crispin Day
to develop the Family Partnership Model (FPM) for LEAP.
FPM is an innovative approach based on how the qualities
and skills of those who work with families, when used in
partnership, can build strength and resilience and fulfil
families’ goals more effectively, while overcoming the
challenges they may face. This model will be developed
over the course of this year, working alongside practitioners
from across the LEAP area, for example, health visitors and
children’s centre outreach workers.
If you are interested in being part of the workforce
development work, please contact Claire Cooper,
LEAP Workforce and Learning Manager by email:
[email protected]
Annual Report 2016|15 Community engagement
We are at the end of a busy year of work with the LEAP
community. We’ve had some great successes: co-designing
and getting the Parent Champion programme up and
running; recruiting Parent Representatives to the LEAP Board;
embedding community involvement in the design of the
LEAP programme; and developing positive relationships
between parents, the voluntary sector and local services.
We are still at the beginning and all of this will continue to
grow over the ten years of LEAP to ensure the community is
truly embedded, in a sustainable way, in all we do.
For the year ahead, we will be focusing on building on what
we’ve achieved so far. In particular, we will prioritise putting
the community engagement strategy into action. The first
step is to develop an in-depth understanding of our
communities, and a range of specific opportunities to
appeal to everyone. We started in November, working with
St Michael’s Fellowship and Stockwell Partnership – two of
our local voluntary sector partners – to support our work with
young parents, fathers and male carers, Portuguese and
Latin American families, and those from the Horn of Africa.
The next step is to build on this and identify the assets we
have, and also the needs of our many other community
groups, so we can work together to deliver what families
want, and ensure they are accessible to all. Part of this will be
our ward and estate-based work which is starting in Tulse Hill
and Coldharbour.
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Alongside this, we will be completing our design of the
one-to-one peer support programme – which will be highly
innovative and tailored specifically to LEAP communities.
We will also continue to work with Parent Representatives as
the ‘community voice’ on the LEAP Board.
If you are a parent or carer living in the LEAP area
and would like to be involved, contact us at
[email protected] or on 0207 582 4182
Evaluation
Louise Harrington, LEAP Evaluation Manager, is leading on
the development of an evaluation framework. This will be
presented to the Board for discussion in July, following which
there will be further opportunity to work with partners to
develop and commission evaluation activity. The framework
will support evaluation of LEAP at both service level and
programme level – which will tell us how effective our
services are and also about the change LEAP is making for
the whole population of the wards in which we are focused.
Within the LEAP programme are services that are wellevidenced, but perhaps being offered for the first time in
Lambeth; services that have a ‘science base’ that we will
put to the test; and those that are local innovations, where
we want to try something new. LEAP evaluation will
complement the work of the Warwick Consortium who are
leading on evaluation across all five A Better Start sites.
The LEAP Partnership would like to say a big
Thank You
to all parents, carers, the community and our partners
for supporting a successful first year
Annual Report 2016|17 Lambeth Early Action Partnership (LEAP)
LEAP is mode up of local organisations, communities, parents
and carers across four wards in Lambeth. LEAP works in an
innovative way to transform early years services, working with
local families to build stronger and more supportive communities.
LEAP’s purpose is to enable individuals and organisations to
collaborate so that every child has A Better Start in life, from
pregnancy up to their fourth birthday.
The National Children’s Bureau (NCB) is the accountable
organisation for the partnership.
Lambeth Early Action Partnership (LEAP)
Liz Atkinson Children’s Centre, 9 Mostyn Road, London SW9 6PH
Email: [email protected]
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Lambeth Early Action Partnership