We offer councils a wide range of support on children's services improvement – on a free-of-charge or subsidised basis.
Improving children's services
As part of our children’s services improvement offer to councils we:
- provide nationally accredited and quality-assured courses for practitioners and associates engaging in peer reviews, challenges or diagnostic activities
- maintain an availability register
- run a series of Leadership Essentials courses for children's services portfolio holders
- develop and / or broker, where need is evidenced, a flexible and responsive offer of bespoke diagnostic or peer review tools either to individual councils or as part of a regional offer or as may be commissioned by the Department for Education for authorities in intervention – these may be offered on a whole cost, subsidised or free basis.
In each region, our children's improvement advisers work with our principal advisers, along with prime associates with strategic overview, to pull together learning and advise councils on the best support.