Mr Si Chun Lam
Development Officer, Life Chances Children, Learning and Young People's Directorate, Coventry City Council Ribble Road Offices 57 Ribble Road Coventry CV3 1AW 024 7678 5737 SiChun.Lam@coventry.gov.uk
I work for Coventry City Council's Children, Learning and Young People's Directorate as a Development Officer. My job is to look at all aspects of the business and find ways to make things better for children and families, while ensuring that taxpayers money are well spent. In the past year, this included things like developing a financial software package to monitor the spend in the Children's Disability Team; rewriting the financial guidance for Leaving Care services; developing unit costs of key services; creating standardised eligibility and assessment criteria for new Short Breaks under the Government's Aiming High for Disabled Children agenda; as well as writing reports for Senior Officers and the Government. I am involved with service development across Life Chances, including disabilities, placements and aftercare.
Coventry City Council is a four-star metropolitan authority in the West Midlands providing local government services to over 300,000 people in the historic city of Coventry, including around 45,000 children and young people. The Children, Learning and Young People’s Directorate manages all services related to the well-being of children and young people in the city, from birth to the age of 19 and beyond under the government’s Every Child Matters programme. Its work is divided along broad lines into the following four key areas: - Services for Schools - Neighbourhood Services - Specialist Services - Strategic Services The directorate is also a key player in Coventry's Children and Young People's Strategic Partnership, which is made up of local agencies working together to create a better future for young people in the city.
