Catch up on the highlights from the Learning from VCFSE involvement in neighbourhood working CYP webinar

What we covered

Speakers shared how neighbourhood approaches are evolving across Cheshire and Merseyside, with the VCFSE sector playing a central role in shaping and delivering support for children and families.

Key themes included:

• The vision of the Beyond Programme to improve outcomes for children and young people through early intervention, prevention and integrated neighbourhood working.
• How population health intelligence and data are being used to identify need and target support for vulnerable groups, including children with SEND and families experiencing inequalities.
• Examples from Cheshire West and Sefton showing how voluntary sector organisations are embedded within multi agency neighbourhood models.
• The importance of ensuring families feel heard, informed and empowered, with support designed around their priorities rather than services working in silos.
• Practical learning around information sharing, explicit consent processes and building trusted partnerships between health, local authorities and VCFSE organisations.
• Ongoing challenges around funding, workforce capacity, fragmented systems and ensuring sustainable investment for the VCFSE sector.
• The need for consistency and equity across neighbourhood working approaches, while allowing flexibility for local delivery.

Why it matters

Neighbourhood working is becoming increasingly important across health, children’s services and family support, creating opportunities for more joined up, preventative and community rooted ways of working.

The webinar highlighted how the VCFSE sector is not being viewed as a peripheral partner, but as an equal and embedded part of neighbourhood delivery. Examples from across the region demonstrated the value of community relationships, trusted local organisations and family centred approaches in improving outcomes for children and young people.

Discussions also reinforced the importance of learning together, building community capacity, improving access to data and information sharing systems, and using evidence from pilots to influence future funding and system change.

Catch up now

You can now watch the recording and download the slides to explore the neighbourhood models, partnership approaches and learning shared by speakers from across Cheshire and Merseyside.