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ADASS
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Association of Directors of Adult Social Services
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ADSW
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Association of Directors of Social Work
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BAAF
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British Association for Adoption and
Fostering
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BAME
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Black, Asian
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BME
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Black and Minority Ethnic
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Children’s Trust
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Children's trusts are a response to Lord
Laming's report of the inquiry into the death of Victoria Climbié,
which highlighted the extent to which better working together and
better communication are crucial.
Children's trusts have been created to address
the fragmentation of responsibilities for children's services. They
build upon, bring together and formalise the joint work that is
already taking place in many local areas.
Children's trusts bring together all services
for children and young people in an area, underpinned by the
Children Act 2004 duty to cooperate, to focus on improving outcomes
for all children and young people. They will support those who work
every day with children, young people and their families to deliver
better outcomes - with children and young people experiencing more
integrated and responsive services.
People will work in effective
multi-disciplinary teams and be trained jointly to tackle cultural
and professional divides and use a lead professional model where
many disciplines are involved. They will be co-located, often in
extended schools or children's centres.
Children's trusts will be supported by
integrated processes. Some processes, like the Common Assessment
Framework, will be centrally driven, whereas others will be
specified at a local level.
Children’s Trusts are not legal entities, but
instead partnerships between different organisations who provide,
commission, or are otherwise involved in delivering better outcomes
for Children and Young People.
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Commissioning
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Commissioning is the cycle of assessing the
needs of people in an area, designing and then securing an
appropriate service.
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CSPs
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Community Safety Partnerships
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CRE
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Commission for Racial Equality
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CSCI
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Commission for Social Care Inspection
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CSR
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Comprehensive Spending Review
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CWDC
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Children’s Workforce Development Council
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CWN
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Children's Workforce Network
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CYPP
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Children and Young People’s Plan
The Children and Young People's Plan (CYPP) is
an important element of the reforms underpinned by the Children Act
2004. It implemented a new statutory duty and along with following
the best local planning practice, local areas will produce a single
strategic plan for all services affecting children and young
people.
The CYPP will support more integrated and
effective services to secure the outcomes for children, as set out
in the Ten Year Childcare strategy, the National Service Framework
for Children, Young People and Maternity Services and the Children
Act 2004.
It is a key part of the children's services
improvement cycle, set out in Every Child Matters: Change for
Children.
It will identify where children and young
people need outcomes to be improved, and how and when these
improvements will be achieved.
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CYPSPB
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The Every Child Matters programme set out a
new way of working in partnership for all the Local Authorities
involved in the planning, delivery and evaluation of services for
children and young people.
The five outcomes of the programme (to be
healthy, stay safe, enjoy and achieve, make a positive
contribution, and achieve economic well-being) describe how
services should benefit the lives of children and young people and
require all those who provide services to re-think the way that
services are planned and delivered.
The Children and Young People’s Strategic
Partnership Board (CYPSPB) is responsible for overseeing the
strategic development of services for children and young people and
ensure that these five ECM outcomes are adhered to.
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DCSF (formerly DfES)
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Department for Children, Schools and Families
(formerly Department for Education and Skills)
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DDA
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Disability Discrimination Act
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DH
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Department of Health
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DRC
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Disability Rights Commission
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ECM
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Every Child Matters
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ECP
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End Child Poverty
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ESRA
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Extended Schools Remodelling Advisor
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Extended schools
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Extended schools aim to provide a range of
services and activities, often beyond the school day, to help meet
the needs of children, their families and the wider community.
The Government would like all schools to offer
access to these core services by 2010:
- Quality 'wraparound' childcare provided on
the school site or through other local providers, which will be
available 8am-6pm, all year round
- A variety of activities to be on offer, such
as homework clubs and study support, sport or music tuition
- Parenting support
- Swift and easy referral to a wide range of
specialist support services
- Provision of wider community access to ICT,
sports and arts facilities, including adult learning
The Extended schools programmes works
hand-in-hand with the Every Child Matters 5 key objectives for
Children and Young People; Be Safe, Enjoy and achieve, Make a
positive contribution, Achieve economic well-bring, Be Healthy.
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EYDCP
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Early Years Development Partnership
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FPI
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Family and Parenting Institute
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FWA
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Family Welfare Association
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IDeA
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Improvement and Development Agency
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JARS
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Joint Area Review
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LA
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Local Authority
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LGA
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Local Government Association
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LSCB
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Local Safeguarding Children Boards
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LSPs
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Local Strategic Partnerships
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NAVCA
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National Association for Voluntary and
Community Action
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NCVYS
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National Council for Voluntary Youth
Services
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NCVCCO
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National Council of Voluntary Child Care
Organisations
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NCVO
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National Council for Voluntary
Organisations
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NIP
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National Infrastructure Partnership
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OFSTED
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Office for Standards in Education, Children’s
Services and Skills
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PCT
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Primary Care Trust
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Procurement
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Procurement is the specific aspects of the
commissioning cycle that focus on the process of buying services,
from initial advertising through to appropriate contract
arrangements.
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PVI
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Private, Voluntary and Independent Sector
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SCIE
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Social Care Institute for Excellence
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SLA
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Service level agreement
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Social Enterprise
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Social Enterprises are dynamic businesses with
a social purpose working all around the UK and internationally to
deliver lasting social and environmental change.
Well known social enterprises include
Cafedirect, The big Issue, The Co-operative Group, Eden Project and
Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen, but there are many other social enterprises
operating in a wide range of industries from farmers markets and
recycling companies to transport providers and childcare.
The social enterprise sector is incredibly
diverse, encompassing co-operatives, development trusts, community
enterprises, housing associations, football supporter's trusts,
Social Firms and leisure trusts. As a result social enterprises use
a wide variety of legal forms; some incorporate as companies while
others take the form of industrial and provident societies.
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Social Firm
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A type of social enterprise; a business set
up specifically to create employment for disabled people.
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Together for Children |
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Third Sector
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The third sector describes a range of
institutions which occupy the space between the state and the
private sector. These include local community and voluntary groups,
large and small registered charities, foundations, trusts, and the
growing number of social enterprises and co-operatives.
Third sector organisations share common
characteristics in that they are:
- non-governmental;
- 'value-driven' – that is, primarily
motivated by the desire to further social, environmental or
cultural objectives rather than to make a profit per se; and
- principally reinvest surpluses to further
their social, environmental or cultural objectives.
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TSF
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Third Sector Forum
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VCS
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Voluntary and Community Sector
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