Key Resources

ADCS Reading List

• Safeguarding Pressures Research Reports - ADCS longitudinal safeguarding research project
• Special thematic report on Mental Health - Special Safeguarding pressures report - 2022
• Children’s services timeline - Policy context - 2022
• A country that works for all children – ADCS policy paper 2017
• Building a workforce that works for all children – ADCS policy paper 2019
• A Youth Justice System that Works for Children - ADCS, AYM and LGA Policy Position Statement - 2021
• A health care system that works for all children – ADCS policy paper 2019
• Serious Youth Violence and Knife Crime – ADCS discussion paper 2019
• A vision for an inclusive and high performing education system - ADCS policy paper 2018
• Elective Home Education survey - ADCS survey report 2021

Inspection

• ILACS
• ADCS ILACS outcomes summary spreadsheet
• ILACS guidance
• JTAI
• ADCS JTAI outcomes summary spreadsheet
• Joint Targeted Area Inspections
• SEND inspection
• ADCS SEND outcomes summary spreadsheet
• SEND inspection guidance

Statutory Duties

• ADCS spreadsheet of children’s services statutory duties
• Statutory guidance on the roles and responsibilities of the Director of Children’s Services and the Lead Member for Children’s Services

LGA Resources

• LGA: Chief Executives’ ‘must know’ for children’ services
• LGA Guidance for Lead Members: Your first ten days as a Lead Member for Children’s Services

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