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This small-scale survey identified some of the factors that contributed to good outcomes for children in need in a range of different types of early years and childcare settings.
The Children's care monitor 2008 is our first annual report of what children and young people living away from home or getting help from children's social care services have told us about six things that are important to their lives:
keeping safe, bullying, having a say in what happens to them, making complaints and suggestions, education, and care planning for people being looked after in care. The monitor provides children's own evaluation of the state of social care as they experience it.
This report explores the views of children about plans to store basic information on every child in England on a new system, the Children's Index. The scheme would also include details of professionals who work with individual children. In the report, children say that only people who work with them should have access to their records, that they do not want their privacy put at risk, and that some are unsure about the security of the system.
HMICA inspected section 31 care proceedings in Cafcass. The scope of the inspection was proceedings where interim or final care orders are sought by local authorities under the Children Act 1989.
This three part review covers: the achievements of the Children's Rights team in 2005 and their future plans; how well services such as children's homes and boarding schools meet key standards; and what children and young people think about the services they receive.
This report was published shortly before the handover of Commission for Social Care Inspection responsibilities for the children's social care functions to Ofsted. The report was written to set out what the key messages are coming out of its knowledge, regulation, inspection and performance activity since the Commission was set up in 2004.
Advocacy, especially for children and young people living away from home or getting children’s social care services, is something that is important to safeguarding and promoting children’s rights. This report sets out children’s own views on what advocacy is (and isn’t); what makes a good advocate; how a child or young person gets an advocate when they need one; and how well advocates do at speaking up for children.
This 2003 report gives some early views from one day's workshop of eight children, meeting in two separate groups. The children provide their points of view on issues regarding a National Service Framework for children's health care. It is to be considered by those writing the Framework itself alongside the views they have from professional working groups.
This 2006 report explores the views of children on their social workers, and shows that while overall they rate them positively, they want them to be easier to reach, follow through on their promises and see them alone during visits.
A 2006 report exploring the views of over 200 children and young people on what makes a good care service. The children say they want to be treated as individuals, to have a say and be listened to, to have choices in decisions affecting them and to have services that do what they think is important. The children's messages form part of a review of the national minimum standards for children's care services.