Every Child Matters: Change for Children

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Every Child Matters Change for Children

• Emerging Practice

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Aims and Objectives

• To encourage all authorities to share their
  learning and experiences with others
• To show different approaches of putting
  childrens trust functions in place
• To provide practice examples of joint working in
  key ECM policy areas

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Progress so far

• Development of Resource and Practice database
  (RAP) on the ECM website with over 100 case
  studies and other useful documents
• Together with IDeA produced 12 whole system
  journeys- childrens trust case studies
• Developed generic case study specification

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Progress (continued)

• Working closely with other ECM policy teams,
  field forces and external stakeholders,
  established an overview of existing material
• Currently developing 42 tailored case studies to
  fill identified information gaps, outlining
  childrens trust arrangements focussing on key
  ECM policy areas

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Key Issues and Barriers

• Complexity of Change programme it is difficult
  to capture and provide examples of all the
  developments and work going on
• Authorities priorities are to plan, implement,
  and deliver the services to children and their
  families this may leave little time to write up
  case study material

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Plans for the future

• Working closely with government offices and field
  forces to extend regional support structures
• Continuing to facilitate networking opportunities
  through events and workshops, such as the 2006
  regional Emerging Practice Events
• Developing a central strategy for collating soft
  evidence, including an analysis of existing
  networks