IAS: Increasing Accessibility of integrated ECEC-services for all families with young children
Kick-off Brussels, 21th – 23th January, 2019
WELCOME!
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1. Programme for the next three days
Monday 21th
▪ 12am: Lunch @Kind en Gezin
▪ 1.15pm: Welcome and introduction, programme and study visits
▪ 1.45pm: Getting to know each other
▪ 2pm: IAS in a nutchell, questions
▪ 2.45pm: Discussion text on ‘accessibility and integrated working’
▪ 4.45pm: BREAK – time to check in at the hotel
▪ 6pm: Culinary tour in Brussels
▪ 10pm: End of the culinary tour
1. Programme for the next three days
Tuesday 22th
• 9.30am – 2pm: study visits in three groups and lunch:
• Brussels Schaarbeek
• Brussels Nieuwland
• Leuven
• 3pm: @Kind en Gezin: exchange of experiences study visits
• 4.30pm: Break
• 4.45pm: Welcome by Katrien Verhegge, Administrator-General of Kind en Gezin
• 5.30pm: BREAK
• 7.30pm: Restaurant ‘Le cercle des voyageurs’
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1. Programme for the next three days
Study visits
• Brussels Schaarbeek
• ABC (Art and Education)
• Elmer (Child care)
• Baboes (Open meeting place)
• Brussels Nieuwland
• Different partners of Huis van het Kind Nieuwland (integrated services focused on preventive family support)
• Leuven
• ‘t Lampeke (Child care, community center, youth activities,…)
• Wigwam (Child care, with special attention for accessibility)
• KOALA (Child-Parent-Activity’s in combination with childcare for vulnerable families)
1. Programme for the next three days
Study visits
‘The IAS-glasses to look at inspiring practices’
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The aim of IAS is to exchange ideas and inspiring practices between policy, practice and research on improving accessibility of integrated services for these (vulnerable) families with young children.
The exchange of ideas and inspiring practices happens on different levels:
(1) Relation professional/services – families:
• Support professionals to embrace diversity and to handle sensitive to all kinds of families (e.g. by creating open meeting places);
• Increase the competences of professionals to interprofessional collaboration and leadership to work participative with families in a context of diversity;
• Support the social work approach as a framework to empower families;
• Integration of multiple services (e.g., social, health, ECEC, NGO) in order to respond to the needs of families.
(2) Role Policy Makers
• Support policy makers in looking for relevant indicators and outcome results on an improved accessibility of integrated ECEC-services, taking the families and their perspectives into account;
• Guarantee the effectiveness of the services, in the way that they are accessible for all.
The IAS guide to look at
inspiring practices
The IAS-glasses to look at inspiring practices
General reflective questions?
How did you experience the visit?
What inspired you? What triggered you? What stands out?
What’s similar in your country? What’s different?
Which suggestions do you have for the organisations you visited?
Did the practice came across as indispensable? For whom and Why?
What triggered you when you saw the staff at work?
What threshold(s) did you see?
Integrated working - Level of integration - Partners
- Main strengths / pitfalls
- Critical success factors - Participative working - Inclusive working - Staff/leadership
Accessibility
- Comprehensible - Usefull
- Available, - Affordable - Accessible
Perspective
1. Programme for the next three days
Wednesday 23th
• 9.30am: @Kind en Gezin: Planning and project management:
exchange on financial aspects, reports, tasks, next international
meetings, planning steering committees, feedback country report,…
• 12am: Evaluation of the kick-off, learning points
• 12.30pm: Lunch@Kind en Gezin
• 2pm: End of the meeting
2. Getting to know each other
Who is who?
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3. IAS in a nutchell
Aim
• exchange ideas and inspiring practices
• between policy, practice and research
• on improving accessibility of integrated services
• For (vulnerable) families with young children
3. IAS in a nutchell
PURPOSE
• On different levels:
• Relation professional/services – families
• Role policy makers
• With a network of policy makers, practitioners and researchers in:
• Belgium (Flanders)
• Finland
• Norway
• Slovenia
• Poland
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3. IAS in a nutchell
Result
• developing and sharing expertise between policy makers,
practitioners and researchers in the five countries on the general topic ‘integrated services and accessibility’, specifically on:
▪ The importance of open meeting places (family centers and hosting public spaces) in order to reach (out to) (underprivileged) families.
▪ Interprofessional collaboration and leadership as crucial aspects of how well the family centers function.
▪ The social work approach as a framework to empower families and the realisation of social rights.
▪ Integrating social, health and early childhood education services and NGO actors in order to respond to needs of diverse families and children.
3. IAS in a nutchell
Methodology
• Developing a shared vision and framework
• Document analyses and focus groups
• International IAS meetings:
A 3 day meeting in each partner country, combining study visits to integrated ECEC services, with discussion and working tables on a specific theme
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3. IAS in a nutchell
PLANNING
for IAS meetings:• December 2018 Belgium Kick-off: vision and framework
• May 2019 Poland The social work approach
• October 2019 Finland Integrating services and NGO
• May 2020 Slovenia Open meeting places
• October 2020 Norway Interprofessional collaboration Online IAS-platform: output of the meetings, recommendations for policy and practice
3. IAS in a nutchell
Result
• An online IAS-platform with:
• The shared vision and framework
• An overview of country reports with document analyses on relevant practice and policy documents and the input of focus groups
• Recommendations on three levels: policy, research and practice
• Overview of good practices
• Links to interesting international websites, documents,…
• …
• Documenting good practices in images and videos: some proposals
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Tasks and responsibilities To discuss on Wednesday
• Kind en Gezin (Belgium) is responsible for the general project
coordination of IAS and coordinates the development of the vision and framework
• VBJK (Belgium) coordinates the development of guidelines for the document analyses and the focus groups
• THL (Finland) coordinates the dissimination of IAS
• University of Torun (Poland) and Mala Ulica (Slovenia) coordinate the IAS-platform
• Tromso University (Norway) coordinates the evaluation of IAS
Tasks and responsibilities
Each partner is responsible for:
• The IAS-meeting with study visits and working tables in their country:
• The preparation: searching and supporting inpiring practices, preparing a country guide, practical issues,…
• The execution: working method, input,…
• The follow-up: the report of the IAS-meeting, input for the IAS-platform,…
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Partners – who is who?
Members of the steering committee:
• Belgium: Kind & Gezin: Tine Rommens
• Belgium: VBJK: Hester Hulpia
• Finland: THL: Marjatta Kekkonen
• Slovenia: Mala Ulica: Eva Strmljan Kreslin
• Poland: Torun University: Jaroslaw Przeperski
• Norway: Tromso University: Monica Martinussen
Partners – who is who?
Colleagues from each partner country:
• Belgium: Kind & Gezin: Nele Travers/Kirsten De Saeger, Rudy De Cock/Kathy Jacobs, Christele Van Nieuwenhuyzen/Christine Faure
• Belgium: VBJK: next international meetings
• Finland: THL: Paivi Lindberg, Ulla Lindqvist
• Slovenia: Mala Ulica: Duši Kumer, Manca Kaliman, Ines Zagoranski
• Poland: Torun University: Jarosław Horowski, Małgorzata Grządzielewska, Joanna Kosińska
• Norway: Tromso University: Mariann Bellika Hansen, Ingunn Bulling Skjesol
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Budget
Each partner receives 2 types of budget:
• Budget for transnational meetings: amounts depend on the number of participants and the distance (more or less than 2000 km)
• Budget for project management and implementation:
• 250€/month for each partner (6000€ in total)
• 500€/month for the coordinator (12 000€ in total)
Budget
• Budget for transnational meetings:
• Kind en Gezin: 9 940€
• VBJK: 9 940€
• Mala Ulica: 9 940€
• THL: 9 200€
• Tromso University: 10 680€
• Torun University: 9 200€
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Budget
• We discuss further on the budget on Wednesday
• But…for the kick-off: a proposal:
• In the agreement: ‘The hosting country is responsible for the costs of lunches, conference room and transport to study visits’
• As coordinator, we pay for the culinary tour on Monday. The only cost of meals for the partners is the dinner on Tuesday. Ok to calculate this in the second transfer?
Communication
• Mailing list: please check on Google Drive: useful to add some contacts for each partner?
• Google Drive:
• Document sharing
• Preparation of the meetings
• Financial follow-up
• …
• Use of a specific logo and the EU-logo + ‘corporate identity’ (font type, head,…): February 2019
• Logo’s of partner organisations: ok?
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The country report
• Relevant information of the country and the Flemisch partners of IAS
• Focus on the organisation of material and immaterial resources for families with (young) children
• Material/financial support
• ECEC in Flanders
• Challenges in society and how to cope with it
• Dealing inequalities: Proportianate universalism
• Tackling Poverty
• Embrace superdiversity
• Challenges on integrated family support in ECEC services
• Cooperate inter and cross sectoral
• Guarantee provisions for all children, youngsters and families
• Develop competent systems
• Is everything clear?
• Questions?
• More detailed discussion on Wednesday about the use for the next international meetings
Movie ‘proportional universalism’
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEhbC0EPrGA&feature=youtu.b e&list=PLT6q-Ag3lrKpO3YskgD75SCsc1g1zZlL5
• Read about it in the country report on p. 15
• Movie on memory stick
• ‘Each family counts’
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4. Discussion tekst: ‘Integrated working and accessibility’
• Reader’s guide:
• What is in your country the core of integrated working?
• What is the added value of integrated working?
• What conditions must be met in order to work in an integrated way and how can they be met?
• Which services are crucial partners and why?
• What do you understand in your country by accessibility within the context of integrated working?
• What are in your country the main challenges regarding to integrated working?
4. Discussion text: ‘Integrated working and accessibility’
• Purpose: one shared vision text and framework for IAS as result of our project
• 2 groups to discuss with
• On which topics do you agree?
• Discussion points?
• What needs to be completed?
• Feedback to larger group: visual report
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