Child Health and Maternity Partnership

Achieving excellence throughout 2009-10

Child Health and Maternity Partnership (CHaMP) was established in

April 2009 as a national organisation to support the delivery of high
quality, cost effective and integrated services for children and young
people.

CHaMP has delivered a workplan that has added value, supporting the
‘must do’ objectives of the NHS and Children Services, particularly
where delivery of one national product is the most effective use of
resources.

CHaMP particularly focuses on

enabling the delivery of the NHS
Operating Framework priorities
including:
➜ Safeguarding
➜ Early Years and Maternity
➜ Workforce, and
➜ Children with Disabilities.

CHaMP is also expert at relationship brokerage between key players

and organisations working with children, young people and families.
Achieving positive outcomes for children,
young people and families

Delivering joint initiatives with the Department of Health (DH)

and the Department for Children Schools and Families (DCSF)

➜ Integration of health into children’s services and children’s centres by

producing 23 innovative working examples in partnership with
Together for Children.

➜ Supporting the Transition Support Programme to improve services

for disabled children.

➜ Working with C4EO on use of a system of evaluation of practice

examples.

Supporting the delivery system

➜ Supporting national meetings for the Strategic Health Authority (SHA)

Children Leads and Children’s Service Advisors.

➜ Supporting Safeguarding by hosting the SAIF discussion fora,

delivering a national conference, hosting the Safeguarding
Leadership Programme and commissioning competencies for PCT
Executive Safeguarding Lead members.

➜ Development of a web based knowledge hub offering information on

key themes agreed with SHA Children leads, such as safeguarding,
early years and maternity, service improvement, disabled children
and workforce.

➜ Offering tailor made advice and support to SHA’s, for example

producing Transforming Community Services guidance and briefing
 papers on hot topics, such as Health Visiting Teams.

➜ Production of vignettes of integrated working in Disabled Children’s

Services and development of a
single care pathway for disabled
children.

➜ Exploration of a collaborative
approach to deliver the Early
Years Agenda in particular
focusing on Infant Mortality and
Health Inequalities.

Enabling partnership working

➜ Bringing together and sustaining relationships with key partners, in

particular SHA Children leads, for example through a national
Diagnostic event for Disabled Children.

➜ Establishing the Child Health Improvement Forum, bringing together

the major service improvement organisations to support improved
commissioning of children and young people’s services.

➜ Forging strong relationships in workforce development by linking

children and health services leadership initiatives, and delivering
improved workforce development through the Health Visiting
Workforce modelling tool.

➜ Partnership working with key children’s organisations including DH,

DCSF, Child and Maternal Health Observatory (ChiMat), National
CAMHS Support Service (NCSS), Together For Children / Together
for Disabled Children and the National Support Team.
Next year CHaMP will focus on supporting the delivery of Children
Services in the context of the QIPP (quality, innovation, productivity
and prevention) agenda in particular working with children’s
organisations and government departments to enable partners to
maximise use of limited resources.

Child Health and Maternity Partnership (CHaMP)

Tel: 0778 9945254
www.cypf.org.uk
Westward House, Lime Kiln Close, Stoke Gifford, Bristol, BS34 8SR.

Janis Stout
National Programme Specialist
janis.stout@cypf.org.uk
0161 9039826 / 0788 4473411

Kate Andrews
National Programme Specialist
kate.andrews@cypf.org.uk
0788 4473416

Denise Snow
Business Manager
denise.snow@dh.gsi.gov.uk
0778 9945254

Bridget Taylor
Personal Assistant
bridget.taylor@dh.gsi.gov.uk
0788 1552849