Changing Futures timeline

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July 2022

• First Changing Futures C&P strategic group meeting – click here for a write-up
• Draft Strategic Board terms of reference

September 2022

• Progress update to CPPSB slides (23 Sept 2022)
• Tactical group terms-of-ref

October 2022

• Strategic Board update on progress, note on principles development, note on our draft outcomes and measures, and Social Finance presentation
• MEAM recruited as interim lead for the programme; starts work on specific areas, including starting the process to recruit the Changing Futures team.

November 2022

• New groups forming with the help of existing groups, shaping a new way to share solutions and analyse barriers, as well as celebrate successes. These form part of the local “learning ecosystem”.
  • 1 Nov: first Peterborough Change Forum
  • 8 Nov: first North Operational Partnership (East Cambs and Fenland area)

December 2022

• Recruited a new Trusted Person Coordinator to work in East Cambridgeshire and Fenland areas, alongside two existing co-ordinators.

January 2023

• Third Strategic Board held, click here for a write-up and slides.
• First North Change Forum held (East Cambs and Fenland area)

February 2023

• “Ecosystem of Learning” launched
  • Summary slide learning-ecosystem-on-one-slide
  • Key to the ecosystem of learning key

May 2023

• National MEAM conference on 10th May. Cambridgeshire and Peterborough contribute to the day:
  • Robert Pollock joined the panel for the opening session, sharing his commitment to the MEAM agenda
  • We ran a workshop on our “ecosystem of learning” to colleagues from across the UK, gaining useful feedback on our approach

• June 2023

• Tactical Group meeting 15th June to develop our outcomes and fidelity model based on the programme’s 5 principles and 4 key actions. Link to the Miro board here (please note: work in progress)
• Programme manager interviews held

July 2023

• Tom Tallon recruited as programme manager.
• Presented Changing Futures C&P to the Domestic Abuse and Housing day on 6th July, and to the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Probation staff development day on 11th July.
• Convened a Trauma Informed System workshop 12th July
• One year on – the strategic board meets online 13th July – a note of the meeting is here.

September 2023

• Changing Futures shares 3 job adverts

October 2023

• Trusted Person workshop 11 Oct – Agenda
• Strategic Board meeting 12 Oct 2023 – summary notes here notes-12oct23
• First governance group held

November 2023

• Trauma Informed System workshop held – the “four paths” slides here “Building-on-your-input”
• Campbell Tickell published an evaluation of Rough Sleeper Drug and Alcohol Treatment Grant funding. You can find the report here which noted that Making Every Adult Matter and Changing Futures are both “undertaking significant work on systems development across the Cambridge and Peterborough area in partnership with services and clients. This aims to deliver a system which brings together criminal justice, homelessness, domestic abuse, substance misuse and mental health around the lives of people with complex needs. The emerging model provides a useful map for a whole system to understand and analyse how it could work more effectively.” 

December 2023

• Since October 2022 members of the national MEAM team, led by Carl Brown, have supported our local Changing Futures to recruit a programme lead and develop the programme team, build system relationships as well as vision and values of the programme, help create and embed a learning system and to support working together on a more trauma-informed system. The progress made up to December 2023 is summarised in this report. We are very grateful for the help and support MEAM has provided, going above and beyond in a number of situations.
• Successful recruitment of three new team members, starting in post Jan/Feb 2024

January 2024

• We hosted a Systems Leader Group in Huntingdon on 18th January 2024. You can find notes and  materials from the meeting here Systems-Leaders-Group-Jan 24

APRIL 2024

• We hosted a Systems Leader Group in Wisbech on 18th April 2024. The group came together to review Commitments made in previous meetings. A space was created to allow discussion about trauma-informed practice. Here are the slides from the meeting. Thoughts and reflections can be seen here soon.
• Ran our HealthCheck survey to capture the impact of Changing Futures so far.  You can find a DRAFT write-up of the survey here (added 17.06.24).

June 2024

• Project plan and lessons learned document here
• Recruited Mihaela Popa-Cirlig who is dedicated to supporting people with multiple disadvantage in the Fenland area.

JULY 2024

• Systems Leadership Training – now open for people to register their interest, for more detail please see this page where you will find an outline of the programme and a link to the application form. It is open to people from across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, with 48 places available on an number of 12 week courses. If you have questions, please contact kyle.buckle-hodgson@cambridegshire.gov.uk who will be happy to answer any questions about the training or the commitment involved.

• System Leaders met on Thursday 18th July 2024. Here is the agenda. 
• System Enquiries – for more detail you can read the latest update. In brief, the themes are:
  • Enquiry 1 – Getting information from the community to prison
  • Enquiry 2 – Improving the experience of A&E for people who face multiple disadvantage
  • Enquiry 3 – Stigma in healthcare setting

October 2024

• Impact report of the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Changing Futures programme 2022 to 2024 completed and presented to the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Public Services Board.

November 2024

• System Leadership course running with three separate groups of people from across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough learning about system leadership, philosophy and techniques, led in partnership with MEAM. Evaluation report to follow around April 2025.

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AUGUST 2025

• New emphasis on supporting the system here

September 2025

• Submitted a case for additional funding to support Trusted Person approaches being adopted across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, which was agreed by MHCLG.

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• MHCLG funding secured for Trusted Person approaches, tasks to be completed by April 2026.

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May 2026

• Sharing well: A guide to sharing and receiving information to assist individuals who seek our help “Sharing well” coming soon