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The Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People's Services (C4EO)

Improving outcomes for children, young people and their families is at the heart of the Every Child Matters agenda and has been given a renewed impetus through the Children's Plan, published by the DCSF in December 2007. The Children's Plan places an expectation on LAs and their strategic partners in children's trusts to champion and take responsibility for achieving measurable improvements in the lives of children across all five of the Every Child Matters outcomes.

The Centre for Excellence and Outcomes (C4EO), launched in July 2008, is a collaborative centre, which gathers and shares the best available knowledge and evidence of ‘what works’ to contribute to improving outcomes for children, young people and their families.

C4EO will do this by identifying, coordinating and communicating local, regional and national ‘what works’ knowledge about systems and practices that have improved outcomes in services for children, young people and their families. C4EO will share this knowledge with the children’s sector and offer tailored support to LAs and their Children’s Trust partners, working with them to help them improve outcomes for their priorities in their local context.

C4EO, under the leadership of its Director Christine Davies CBE, is run by a consortium led by the National Children's Bureau (NCB) and draws on the expertise of its core partners:

• the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER)
• Research in Practice (RIP)
• the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)
• a number of other strategic partners such as the Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA).

C4EO will explore seven national “Every Child Matters” outcome themes set by the Department.  The Centre started work on four themes in Year 1:

• Early years
• Disabled children
• Vulnerable children (children in care)
• Child poverty.

The themes for Years 2 and 3 are:

• Schools and communities
• Youth
• Families, parents and carers.

For each theme, C4EO will explore three priorities, except for ‘Child poverty’ which has one priority and ‘Vulnerable children’ which has four priorities.   

For further information about C4EO you can also visit the C4EO website.

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The thinking behind C4EO has been influenced by a number of models, including the Outcome-based Accountability model. You can read more about the Outcome-based Accountability model on the ‘Resources and practice' page, 'Better outcomes for children and young people: From talk to action’.

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