Business Plans 2008/09
Policy, Strategies and Guidance
Managing Director’s Introduction to 2008/9 CFHE Business Plans
Children living in Poverty are much less likely to fulfil their potential than other children. The Children, Families, Health and Education Directorate is focused on creating the conditions, situations and structures in which all children and young people can achieve, no matter their circumstance. Since education is a key predictor of later life chances, improving results and tackling the attainment gap is a key mechanism to sustain lower levels of poverty in the future.
The Children, Families, Health and Education Directorate and its partners face a challenge to ensure that the momentum for narrowing the gap and enabling children and young people to be resilient and optimistic individuals gathers pace, whilst maintaining a universal service promoting high levels of achievement, social cohesion and economic renewal.
Managing Director's Introduction
Annual Plans 2008/9
The Standards & Achievement Division works with Local Children’s Services Partnerships (LCSP) and individual schools and settings to raise standards and achievement for all children and young people, from birth to nineteen years of age. The division is responsible for meeting the statutory duties outlined in the Education and Inspection Act 2006, which include monitoring the quality of learning ensuring that schools/settings address the five outcomes of the Every Child agenda. The division secures implementation of the early years, primary and secondary national strategies, the school improvement partner programme and the DCSF strategy for ICT. Advisory staff will support the successful implementation of the 23 LCSPs and provide support and challenge on the improvement strategies within the LCSP plans.
Operations Division
- School Organisation Annual Plan
The Operations Division is responsible for the organisation, operation and day to day delivery of ‘universal’ statutory education and childcare provision for all children and young people in Kent.
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This annual operating plan will be an interim plan as Clusters and District Consortia will evolve into Local Children’s Services Partnerships and become fully operational on 1st September 2008. By June 2008 each LCSP will have a local Children and Young person’s Plan in place that will supersede this plan.
The Commissioning Division is responsible for providing, commissioning and purchasing a wide range of services to remove barriers to learning for vulnerable children and young people. This includes children with learning difficulties and/or disabilities (LDD) including those with additional and special educational needs.
This Division, funded through a partnership between the 2 PCTs and co-located within KCC’s Children, Families, Health and Education Directorate since April 2007 and is dedicated to Children’s Health issues, reflecting the commitment to improving health outcomes for all children and young people in Kent.
The purpose of the Children’s Social Services Division is to plan, deliver, commission and develop services that provide protection for children at risk of abuse or neglect, that comprehensively meet the needs of children who are looked after, including the need for permanence, and that provide support for children in need (CIN) and their wider family.
The purpose of the Finance and Corporate Services Division is to deliver coherent, consistent and high quality support and services to all our customers, including Cabinet Members, Schools, Parents, University and College students, Unit Managers and Directorate staff.
The overarching purpose of the Division is to lead on strategy, policy and performance on behalf of the Children, Families, Health and Education Directorate (CFHE).
The Resources Division provides a number of focussed support services to our schools and the rest of the Directorate, including Members and staff in other units.
Annual Plans