The Every Child Matters: Change for Children programme aims to put in place a national framework to support the joining up of services so that every child can achieve the five Every Child Matters outcomes.
Children's Social Care and Safeguarding play a central role in trying to improve outcomes for the most vulnerable and a key measure of success will be achieving change through closing the gap between their outcomes and those of the majority of children and young people.
Find out more about Children's Social Care and Safeguarding in Stockport below.
Children in Care
Children in the care of Local Authortities are one of the most vulnerable groups in society. The majority of children who remain in care are there because they have suffered abuse or neglect. At any one time around 60,000 children are looked after in England, although some 90,000 pass through the care system in any year.
Children in Need
Social Care have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children who are in need and to promote the upbringing of such children by their families.
Children Leaving Care
Providing the right kind of support for children leaving care is an important concern for the Every Child Matters programme, which aims to achieve five key outcomes for all young people.
Children's Fund
Learning about the Children's Fund and what is happening in Stockport
Common Processes
Stockport's Common Processes Team has been developed to ensure a co-ordinated and integrated approach to new ways of working, bringing together the Common Assessment Framework (CAF), the Lead Practitioner and the Team Around the Child (TAC) process.
Complaints about Children's Social Care
For advice, support and information about making a complaint about Children's Social Care.
Concerns about a child's welfare
What to do if you have concerns for a child's welfare.
ContactPoint
ContactPoint will be the quick way to find out who else is working with the same child or young person, making it easier to deliver more coordinated support.
Diversity & Equality
The latest information on Diversity and Equality related developments at Stockport Council.
Integrated Children's System
The Integrated Children's System (ICS) has been developed to improve outcomes for children defined as being in need, under the Children Act 1989.
Safeguarding Children
The Safeguarding Children Unit has four main areas of work including Looked After Children, Child Protection, Common Assessment Framework / Common Processes and Family Group Meetings
SEN and Disability Support
Children with special educational needs all have disabilities that make it harder for them to learn than most children of the same age. These children may need extra or different help and support.
The Government's strategy for Special Educational Needs (SEN) was launched in February 2004. It sets out the Government's vision for enabling Children with SEN to realise their potential.
Stockport Care Ambassadors
Care Ambassadors is part of a national Skills for Care initiative and is supported by Stockport Council. The aim of the Care Ambassadors is to promote social care as an exciting career option, including the variety of different jobs available and the benefits of working in social care. Links below give you details of; How to be a Care Ambassador and Care Ambassadors Frequently Asked Questions.
Stockport Children's Rights Service
Stockport Children’s Rights Service is funded by the Local Authority but is a confidential service for all children and young people who have a Stockport social worker.