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Children's Services Performance Assessment 2008-9
In 2006, the council collectively signed up to making life
better for children and young people and their parents and carers
in Medway and set out its priorities and ambitions based on its
analysis of local need. This work produced the Children and Young
People’s Plan.
The Joint Area Review (JAR), which took place 100 days after the
creation of the Children’s Services Directorate, provided the
council with a comprehensive external assessment. Overall it was a
positive experience, despite some tough, painful messages.
In 2007, the council's Annual Performance Assessment (APA)
confirmed its own assessment of where it needed to put concerted
pressure and energy, highlighted strengths and improvements and
confirmed its direction of travel.
This was followed in 2008 by Making life better:
Children's Services in Medway APA self assessment 2008
(pdf 2,300KB) and the APA Delivery/Action Plan 2008
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Under the APA arrangements, Ofsted gave judgements against a
broad overview of every council’s performance in relation to
Children’s Services, including education, social care and health.
Ofsted’s evaluations and judgements were drawn from a council’s
self assessment, performance data and the views of agencies such as
the local Government Office, the Youth Justice Board and the
Healthcare Commission.
Although these arrangements have now been replaced by the
government’s Comprehensive Area Assessment and inspection
arrangements, as they relate to Children’s Services, Medway
Council, as the Local Authority, has decided to continue with a
performance assessment process along similar lines to the APA using
the same judgement categories where possible.
The report for 2008-9 is available on this
website.
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