C4EO - About us: glossary

• Action for Children - formerly NCH; delivery partner
• ADCS - Association of Directors of Children’s Services
• AHDC - Aiming High for Disabled Children
• CAF - Contact a Family
• CDC - Council for Disabled Children
• ChiMat - Child and Maternal Health Intelligence Unit
• CLG - Department for Communities and Local Government
• CMS - Contacts Management System
• CSA - Children’s Services Adviser
• C4EO - Centre for Excellence and Outcomes; brand name of consortium
• CWDC - Children’s Workforce Development Council
• CWN - Children’s Workforce Network
• CYP - children and young people
• CLG - Department of Communities and Local Government
• DCS - Director of Children’s Services
• DCSF - Department for Children, Schools and Families
• DH - Department of Health
• DSRU - Dartington Social Research Unit
• DWP - Department for Work and Pensions
• ECF - Early Childhood Forum
• ECM - Every Child Matters policy
• EMIE - Education Management Information Exchange service for local government, based at NFER and funded by LGA
• EPPE - Effective Provision of Pre-School Education Project, funded by DCSF at IoE
• EPPI - Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Coordinating Centre, funded by DCSF at IoE
• FPI - Family & Parenting Institute; strategic partner
• GO - (regional) government office
• IDeA - Improvement and Development Agency; strategic partner
• IoE - Institute of Education, London University; strategic partner
• IPR - intellectual property rights
• KPI - key performance indicator
• LA - local authority
• LAA - local area agreement
• LAC - looked after children
• LAEYN - Local Authority Early Years Network
• LGA - Local Government Association
• Matrix - Matrix Knowledge Management Group, delivery partner of C4EO for cost benefit and vfm services
• MRC - Making Research Count; consortium of universities, delivery partner
• NAPP - National Academy for Parenting Practitioners
• NAHT - National Association of Head Teachers
• NCB - National Children’s Bureau; accountable body and core partner
• NCERCC - National Centre for Excellence in Residential Child Care
• NCMA - National Childminding Association
• NCPTA - National Council of Parent Teacher Associations
• NFER - National Foundation for Educational Research; core partner
• NHSIII - National Health Service Institute for Innovation and Improvement; strategic partner
• NICE - National Institute for Clinical Excellence
• NIES - National Improvement and Efficiency Strategy
• NtG - Narrowing the Gap programme funded by DCSF and LGA
• NYA - National Youth Agency; strategic partner
• OBA - Outcomes Based Accountability; change model promoted by Mark Friedman
• OU - Open University
• QPQ - quid pro quo; a capacity-exchange strategy of the C4EO consortium
• PCT - Primary Care Trust
• PLA - Pre-School Learning Alliance
• PSA - Public Service Agreement
• RCT - Randomised control trial
• RIEP - Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnership
• RiP - Research in Practice; core partner
• SCIE - Social Care Institute for Excellence; core partner
• SETF - Social Exclusion Task Force
• SLA - service level agreement
• SOLACE - Society of Local Chief Executives (and other senior strategic managers)
• SPRU - Social Policy Research Unit at York University; delivery partner
• TCRU - Thomas Coram Research Unit at the Institute of Education, London University; part of strategic partner
• TDA - Training and Development Agency
• TSA - Trust for the Study of Adolescence
• vfm - value for money
• YVN - Youth Volunteering Network