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Our teams think carefully about the likely equality impact of their work and will take action to improve strategies, policies and projects, where appropriate. Equality impact assessments (EIA) like this provide a tool to help them do this.
This survey evaluates the quality of provision of English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) offered in the post-compulsory learning and skills sector and reports on the programmes available to learners.
Our teams think carefully about the likely equality impact of their work and will take action to improve strategies, policies and projects, where appropriate. Equality impact assessments (EIA) like this provide a tool to help them do this.
You can find more on the EIA homepage.
The Primary and Secondary National Strategies have been in place for over six years. They are intended to help improve teaching and learning and to raise achievement. This report reviews progress since 2005 and evaluates the quality of transition from primary to secondary schools, with a particular focus on the continuity of learning. It evaluates the support which local authorities provide for schools to implement the National Strategies. The survey found that the impact of the National Strategies was good in around half of the schools inspected. However, in around 1 in 10 of the schools its effectiveness was seriously limited by weak leadership. There was too little continuity of learning for pupils as they moved to secondary school. Local authorities provided generally good support to schools.
This small scale survey report evaluates aspects of family learning and its benefits for adult participants and their children, their families and the wider community.
Between September 2008 and March 2009, inspectors visited 23 local authority adult and community learning services that were receiving Learning and Skills Council funding for wider family learning, family literacy, language and numeracy, and family learning impact funding. The survey explores a range of delivery models, gives examples of good practice and makes recommendations for improvement.
Our teams think carefully about the likely equality impact of their work and will take action to improve strategies, policies and projects, where appropriate. Equality impact assessments (EIA) like this provide a tool to help them do this.
The fostering dataset gives a snapshot of fostering services in England as of 31 March 2009. Data was submitted last year by nearly 80% of all fostering services. Thank you to everyone who submitted their returns. Although not fully complete, it gives a really useful picture of the numbers and profile of foster carers and children, in both local authority and independent services. It also gives data relating to types of foster care, registrations and deregistrations, and a range of other matters.
The Government is currently reviewing the National Minimum Standards for the care of looked after children. A new report by the Children’s Right Director for England sets out children’s recommendations for future care standards.
This report sets out what children and young people in care told us they wanted the Government to put in Regulations that are to be written to say what must happen under the Children and Young Persons Act 2008. That Act is a new law about how children in care must be looked after in future.
Children being looked after or supported by social services express their views in this 2005 report on the Government's proposed changes to the way complaints about children's social services are dealt with.