every child matters: change for children emerging practice
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Every Child Matters: Change for Children
Emerging Practice
• To encourage all authorities to share their learning and experiences with others
• To show different approaches of putting children’s trust functions in place
• To provide practice examples of joint working in key ECM policy areas
Aims and Objectives
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’- children’s trust case studies
• Developed generic case study specification
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 children’s trust arrangements focussing on key ECM policy areas
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
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