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Lead practitioner / lead professional  -  general briefing

Leadership / reference group  -  A group set up by the Children and Young People's Board to develop the Brighter Futures strategy for Birmingham. The group was made up of leaders of services for children, young people and families across the city.(BCYPP)

Learning and Skills Council  -  The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) is a national post-16 planning and funding agency that aims to improve the skills of England's Young people and adults to make sure we have a world-class workforce. The Birmingham and Solihull office is one of five in the West Midlands and works with local education and training providers.(BCYPP)   http://www.lsc.gov.uk/regions/WestMidlands/

Logic model  -  The logic model used to develop the Birmingham Children and Young People's Plan focuses on agreeing outcomes (Oc), deciding activities to address those outcomes (A), making decision about investments (I), and deciding the outputs used to measure progress (Ot).(BCYPP)

MAPPA  -  Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) support the assessment and management of the most serious sexual and violent offenders. The aim of MAPPA is to ensure that a risk management plan drawn up for the most serious offenders benefits from the information, skills and resources provided by the individual agencies being co-ordinated through MAPPA.  MAPPA were introduced in 2001 and bring together the Police, Probation and Prison Services into what is known as the MAPPA Responsible Authority. Other agencies are under a duty to co-operate, including social care, health, housing and education services.(BCYPP)  www.noms.justice.gov.uk/protecting-the-public/Supervision/mappa  

Multi-agency working  -  general briefing

Need  -  Need refers to the requirements for healthy development. The concept of need connects the gap between a person's current and desired state. Need is concerned with the whole child and covers all aspects of development and risks to healthy development.(BCYPP)

Nurse Family Partnership  -  Nurse Family Partnership is an intensive preventive home visiting programme delivered by specially trained nurses and midwives with experience of working with families in the community. It is a structured programme for at risk, first time young parents from early pregnancy until the child is 2 years old. Each site has a supervisor and a team of up to 6 Family Nurses. Each nurse is expected to recruit a caseload of approximately 25 mothers. This team would have additional skills and knowledge in areas such as building a therapeutic relationship, motivational interviewing, attachment, behaviour change and using the programme's guidelines and materials.(BCYPP) www.nursefamilypartnership.org  

Outcomes  -  An outcome is the impact of activities (such as a service) on children and young people's health and development.(BCYPP)  See separate page on this site at http://www.vcsmatters.org/outcomes

Output  -  An output is the measure of activities that are intended to lead to an outcome. It is the effect of a process (such as a service) on an administrative indicator. Examples include the number of children and young people in care, the number of arrests and convictions and whether or not a child or young person received special educational help.(BCYPP)