Cost Effective Children’s Services Products
The Government is radically reforming the relationship between itself and local
government, ending the era of top-down government by giving new freedoms and more
flexibility to local councils and the communities, neighbourhoods and individuals
that they serve.
At the same time, the pressures on delivering children’s services are creating an
even greater need to rethink the way services are delivered and improve children
and young people’s outcomes cost effectively.
If we are to manage the challenges and make the most of the opportunities presented
by this new era, we need to develop new ways of working together.
This why the Department for Education, Association of Directors of Children’s Services,
C4EO and other partners have been working to develop and collect information, messages
and tools that provide local areas with tools that will enable them to be even more
effective in improving children’s outcomes with the aim of reducing costs across
the spectrum of need.
C4EO has collated some of these tools and messages with the intention that this
body of work will grow through contributions from the sector. It includes work co-produced
by DfE and ADCS as well as work commissioned by C4EO.
View the overall cost
effective children's services presentation (310Kb Powerpoint file, 14 pages)
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Five areas of work
The first messages and tools are now available, separated into five broad areas:
Universal services and early intervention
Universal Services including schools and health settings, Early Intervention and
use of the Common Assessment Framework.
Contact and referral - 'front door practice'
Edge of care
Interventions with the children on the edge of care and their families.
Children in care
Care proceedings, care placements and adoption/special guardianship.
Enablers
Supporting 'enablers', commissioning and management of data.
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