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The following items are closed consultations relevant to the Every Child Matters: Change for Children programme. Further closed consultations are available from the DCSF e-consultation archive.
Consultation on draft code of practice on provision of the free entitlement for 3- and 4-year-olds – 7 October 2009 to 8 January 2010
The Department consulted over the summer on changes to delivery of the free entitlement, which will be implemented through a revised Code of Practice for LAs, from September 2010. As part of the second phase consultation process the Department will publish a package of documents for consultation. Included will be:
- a draft Code of Practice which draws upon the findings of the first phase
- a summary of responses to the consultation
- the Government response and further questions
- new draft regulations reflecting the increase in the entitlement and an impact assessment on the extension from 12.5 hours to 15 hours.
This consultation is now closed: For more information, go to the DCSF e-consultation website.
ContactPoint: Consultation on proposed amendments to the Children Act 2004 Information Database (England) Regulations 2007 – 2 October 2009 to 29 December 2009
This consultation seeks views on proposed amendments to The Children Act 2004 Information Database (England) Regulations 2007 (the ContactPoint regulations) which were made under section 12 of the Children Act 2004 and came in to force on 1 August 2007. They apply to England only. The ContactPoint regulations provide a legal framework for the operation and maintenance of ContactPoint (formerly known as the Information Sharing Index).
This consultation is now closed: For more information, go to the DCSF e-consultations archive page.
National Minimum Standards (NMS) for adoption, fostering and children's homes – 24 September 2009 to 17 December 2009
The standards are being revised to better reflect the Care Matters agenda and changes in legislation and to make them easier to use.
An effort has been made to make the NMS more child-focused by including new child-centred standards at the start of each setting, and to make them more focused on outcomes – standards start with the outcome that the setting is expected to achieve, with the evidence that the service is meeting that outcome set out below it.
Values have been included in the introduction to the NMS for fostering services and children’s homes, bringing these settings in line with adoption, and clarifying the values within which they should be operating.
The standards for fostering services, children’s homes and adoption have been made more consistent and the two current sets of adoption NMS have been merged so that all standards on adoption are in one document.
This consultation is now closed: For more information, go to the DCSF e-consultations archive page.
Independent review of primary curriculum – recommendation 14(1): Points of entry into reception class – 19 October 2009 to 16 November 2009
The Department is seeking responses to implementing one aspect of the recommendation made by the Rose Primary Curriculum Review that children should start school from the September after they reach the age of four. The change being consulted on is two amendments to the School Admissions Code 2009 to require admission authorities to provide for this in their admission arrangements from September 2011.
This consultation is now closed: For more information, go to the DCSF e-consultations archive page.
Closed: Home education: Registration and monitoring proposals – 11 June 2009 to 19 October 2009
Following the review of home education, the Government is proposing to introduce arrangements for the registration and monitoring of home-educated children. The consultation document sets out our proposals for a registration scheme and arrangements for the monitoring of provision to ensure that children are receiving the education they are entitled to. There is also a proposal that where there are serious concerns about the ability of the parent to provide their child with a suitable education in a safe environment then they should not be permitted to educate their child at home. The consultation seeks the views of home-educating families, groups representing home-educating families, LAs, other agencies involved in the provision of services for children, and the public, on our proposals.
This consultation is now closed: For more information, go to the DCSF e-consultations archive page.
Closed: Review of the Children, Young People and Families (CYPF) Grant Programme – 29 June 2009 to 5 October 2009
The Children, Young People and Families (CYPF) grant programme provides funding to third-sector organisations for activities which support delivery of the Every Child Matters agenda and the Department's Children's Plan. This consultation seeks the views of the third sector and any other interested parties on the future approach and shape of the grant programme.
This consultation is now closed: For more information, go to the DCSF e-consultations archive page.
Closed: Consultation on safeguarding children and young people who may be affected by gang activity – 18 March 2009 to 19 June 2009
The Government is committed to publishing good-practice guidance for agencies on safeguarding children and young people affected by gang activity. The guidance is supplementary to, and should be used in conjunction with, the Government’s statutory guidance Working Together to Safeguard Children (2006). This supplementary guidance is intended to help agencies and professionals ensure that the safeguarding process responds effectively to the needs of children and young people who are at risk of gang-related violence and harm.
This consultation is now closed. For more information, go to the DCSF e-consultations archive page.
Closed: Consultation on revised Missing from home and care guidance – 14 January 2009 to 8 April 2009
In the Young Runaways Action Plan published in June 2008 the Government committed to updating local authority guidance on supporting children and young people who go missing from home or care. The existing guidance was published by the Department of Health in 2002.
After working with a task group, which included representatives from across Government, the English Coalition for Runaway Children and from local authorities, the revised draft guidance is now ready for formal consultation.
This consultation is now closed. For more information, go to the DCSF e-consultation archive page.
Closed: 2020 Children's and Young People's Workforce consultation – 16 December 2008 to 10 March 2009
The Children and Young People's Workforce strategy sets out a vision for 2020 in which everyone who works with children and young people is: ambitious for every child and young person, excellent in their practice, committed to partnership and integrated working, and respected and valued as professionals.
The Government's ambition is that all children and young people should achieve their full potential across all the Every Child Matters outcomes: staying safe; being healthy; enjoying and achieving; making a positive contribution and achieving economic wellbeing. The quality and capacity of the children and young people's workforce are critical to making a reality of those ambitions.
The strategy describes how Government will work with partners to ensure that everyone in the workforce receives the support and development they need to achieve this vision. And it identifies reforms which need to have impact across the whole of the children and young people's workforce as well as priorities for development in each part of it.
This consultation is now closed. For more information, and to view the results of the consultation, go to the DCSF's Children and Young People's Workforce e-consultation archive page.
Closed: Video games consultation – 31 July to 20 November 2008
As part of the Government's implementation of the Byron Review recommendations, on children and new media, the Department for Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) asked for your views on the current classification system for video games.
This consultation is now closed. For more information, go to the DCMS Video Games Consultation page.
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