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The following items are live consultations relevant to the Every Child Matters: Change for Children programme.
Recently closed consultations can be viewed from the Closed consultations page, or via the DCSF e-consultation archive.
Support for All: The Families and Relationships Green Paper – 20 January 2010 to 21 April 2010
This Green Paper sets out a wide range of measures to support all families as they bring up their children and to help families cope with times of stress and difficulty. The proposals recognise that while all families need some help, there are families in our society with complex needs and others who require additional – and sometimes non-negotiable – support.
The Paper's proposals aim to influence factors that can strengthen or weaken family life, such as the choices available about balancing employment with bringing up children; and how welcoming and accessible public services are to families of all kinds.
The Paper focuses mostly on supporting family relationships by enabling families to help themselves. It also considers the position of children and other family members when family relationships have broken down.
Some of the policy proposals can be implemented straight away; others are for consultation or will take longer to put into place.
Further information is available from the DCSF e-consultation website.
Working Together to Safeguard Children – 18 December to 11 February 2010
A revised version of Working Together to Safeguard Children is currently open for consultation.
Children's social care inspection and regulatory fees – 18 November 2009 to 11 February 2010
This consultation is about the setting of annual fees for inspection of children's social care settings, adoption and fostering agencies, local authority adoption and fostering functions, boarding schools, residential further education colleges, residential special schools and residential family centres. Our aim is to put in place a more transparent approach to the setting of fees, and move towards full cost recovery for inspection over time.
Further information is available from the DCSF e-consultation website.
Care Planning Placement and Case Review Regulations consultation – 16 November 2009 to 8 February 2010
The purpose of this consultation is to gather views on the draft Care Planning Placement and Case Review Regulations (England) 2010 and related guidance. The consultation seeks to provide information on the major changes in the regulations and guidance and explore the views of practitioners and delivery partners on potential barriers to implementation of the requirements of the regulations and guidance.
Further information is available from the DCSF e-consultation website.
Statutory guidance on co-operation arrangements, including the Children's Trust Board and the Children and Young People's Plan consultation draft – 13 November 2009 to 29 January 2010
This consultation seeks views on new statutory guidance for Children's Trusts and new Children and Young People’s Plan (CYPP) regulations.
The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 strengthens Children’s Trusts by extending the number of ‘relevant partners’ partners’ to include schools, colleges, and Jobcentre Plus; and requiring each area to have a Children’s Trust Board.
The guidance sets out:
- advice on the co-operation arrangements for statutory and non-statutory partners in the Children’s Trust
- the role of the Children’s Trust Board in preparing and monitoring the implementation of the CYPP and the new CYPP regulations.
The consultation will be of particular interest to all those with an interest in improving the outcomes for children and young people:
- directors of children's services
- senior children's services managers
- professionals working with children
- front line workers.
Further information is available from the DCSF e-consultation website.
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Last updated on 28/01/2010
