Every Child Matters- Change for Children
Every Child Matters: Change for Children is a new guidance document that endeavours to support children aged 0-19 years. Five outcomes for measuring achievement have been established which all children services will be inspected on. These are:
- Be healthy
- Stay safe
- Enjoy and achieve
- Make a positive contribution
- Achieve economic well-being
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This means that the all children and young people’s services are required by law to work together to achieve these 5 outcomes for all children and young people. Services will be inspected through Joint Area Reviews and Annual Performance Assessments. These inspection frameworks mean that children, young people and families will have far more say and be actively consulted on issues and decisions that affect them.
As part of the inspection process, services will have to gather evidence that children and young people’s views have been taken into account in the development and delivery of their service. In addition, the inspection process will request that a mechanism is in place so that when the inspection takes place, the inspectors have the opportunity to speak to users of the service.
