About
Remit, Function and Measures
· Strong Families where children grow up well and achieve their full potential · Provision of all local authority services for children and young people including education, early intervention and prevention, social care, special needs and commissioned services. · Children’s safeguarding including child exploitation. · Ensuring that children have the best start in life and good early development · Ensuring high quality education that closes the attainment gap · Ensuring that children and young people grow up happy with good physical, social and mental health, and wellbeing · Ensuring that every young person in the city is equipped for adulthood with life skills and ready for work · Ensuring that families are strengthened where children are vulnerable or at risk · % of Early Years and Childcare settings rated Good or Outstanding · % of take up of 2-year-olds benefiting from early education · % of schools in the city that are rated Good or Outstanding · Average Attainment 8 score per pupil · % gap in Attainment 8 score gap between advantaged and disadvantaged children · % of 16- and 17-year-olds with SEND in education, employment or training · % of care leavers in education, employment or training · First time entrants into the Youth Justice System per 10,000 population · Rate of children open to social care per 10,000 population under 18. · % of repeat referrals into Children’s Social Care with 12 months. · % of children and young people in care who have had 3 or more homes in the year. · % of Education, Health and Care plans issued within 20 weeks
· Number of ‘free’ activities for CYP in the city and uptake by - long term health conditions, disabilities, low-socioeconomic groups, minority ethnic groups