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All toolkits and good practice examples:

• Looked-after Children. Third Report of Session 2008-09 (647 KB)

  Large variations in care populations around the country seem to indicate that there is no consensus about the role of care in services for vulnerable children. The question the Government must do more to answer is, how can we make sure that all looked-after children get all that they are entitled to expect from their time in care? This report explores: the importance of a skilled workforce who deal with children every day; how local authorities can come to approximate more closely the care of birth parents; and the importance of the voice of the child and children’s satisfaction with their care.

• Healthy Care Standard (220 KB)

  A national standard of healthy care that reflects best practice and contributes to the Every Child Matters national outcomes for children. It is relevant in a commissioning context because it highlights the range of factors that should be taken into account when considering whether a placement meets needs.

• Key Principles of Procurement (22 KB)

  A series of concise principles, outlining the key themes of procurement.

• National Challenge: A toolkit for schools and Local Authorities (1.01 MB)

  National Challenge: Raising Standards, Supporting Schools. The National Challenge will support schools with the lowest GCSE results, so that by 2011 in every secondary school at least 30% of students will achieve five GCSEs at A*-C including English and mathematics. The National Challenge will focus greater attention; help and resources on schools that are currently below this benchmark

• A guide to procuring care and support services (1.46 MB)

  Services for people who need care and support can be of high monetary risk. This makes it all the more important to understand the principles and good practice of procurement..

• A guide to commissioning children’s services for better outcomes (2009) (323 KB)

  This guide is written for Children’s Services Directors and Children’s Trusts who are looking for practical tips and tools for commissioning. It aims to bring together innovative methods and approaches including consideration of the social rate of return on investment (SROI).

• Working Together To Support Young Carers - A Model Local Memorandum of Understanding between Statutory Directors for Children’s Services and Adult Social Services (178 KB)

  This is a model local joint Memorandum of Understanding between Statutory Directors for Children’s Services and Adult Social Services. The aim is to offer a firm basis for working together and working in partnership with health and third sector partners to support young carers.

• Reaching Out: Providing Inclusive Services for Families of Children on the Autism Spectrum (2.05 MB)

  A toolkit for teachers and other education workforce professionals, including speech and language therapists, providing background information about the types of difficulties experienced and faced by some families, and including good practice guidelines that can be used to develop inclusive and accessible services. It provides pointers to professional services, to enable them to make their services inclusive to lone parents, refugees and asylum seekers, families from ethnic minority groups and families where parents are on the autism spectrum. Links are provided to a range of materials that are written in other languages.

• Aiming High for Disabled Children Conference 2009 (152 KB)

  Departmental overview presentation (Kate Sturdy DCSF and Jacqueline Naylor DH) from Aiming High for Disabled Children (AHDC) 2009. This document provides an update on the key elements of AHDC outlines these topics: What did we set out to do? What progress are we making in delivery? What will drive transformation? The core offer, indicator & parent engagement, cross-cutting activity What progress are we making in delivery? What will drive transformation? The core offer, indicator & parent engagement Cross-cutting activity

• National Paedriatric Toolkit: a unique mechanism for engaging with children and young people (Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust) (146 KB)

  This case study looks at a user-driven healthcare service provision. It gives an example of how children and young people can play a pivotal role in decision making related to their health care. Working in partnership with children and young people for children and young people.