Why

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• Why?
• Who?
• Where?
• When?
• What?
• How?
• Our offer to you.

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Why?

• We all need to understand better what really
  makes the difference to children and young
  peoples outcomes rooted in best available
  evidence
• Reliable, trusted information accessible and
  attractive
• Improved dissemination of what works
• Working with and through the sector

Research Data Effective Local Practice
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Who?

• Slim Centre team

• Core Partners
• National Childrens Bureau (NCB)
  accountable body
• National Foundation for Educational Research
  (NFER)
• Research in Practice (RIP)
• Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE)

• Strategic Partners
• Improvement Development Agency (IDeA)
• Family Parenting Institute (FPI)
• Institute of Education (IoE)
• National Youth Agency (NYA)

Other specialist partners
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Who?

• Supported and advised by
• Programme Board, chaired by
• Dr Maggie Atkinson
• Children and Young Peoples Panel
• Parents and Carers Panel

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Who?
Close consultation and co-operation

• ADCS
• Regional Government Offices
• Local Government Association
• NHS Confederation
• Solace
• Ofsted
• and, of course, DCSF and other Government
  departments

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Where?

• Virtual no expensive physical structure
• Small administrative base at NCB
• Attractive meeting space for practitioners at
  SCIE
• Critically, working across the country through
  the 9 regions and with local area Childrens
  Trusts.

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When?

• Launched at ADCS Conference - July 2008
• Initially funded for 3 years (April 2011)

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What?

• 6 themes
• Early years
• Disability
• Vulnerable Children
• Families, Parents and Carers
• Youth
• Schools and communities

• 18 key lines of enquiry (priorities) 3 per
  theme

• Primary Research - Disability

• Cross cutting reviews Child Poverty

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How?

• Identify and pull together evidence of what
  works to create comprehensive body of knowledge
• Provide knowledge and data (national, regional
  and local) through simple, interactive, on-line
  progress maps
• Disseminate knowledge
• Share effective local practice

through regional workshops
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How?
Offer tailored support to Local Authorities
and their Childrens Trust partners through a
bank of sector specialists. Identified,
recruited and deployed, through and with
regional ADCS GOs
Quid Pro Quo give a little, get a lot!
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Our offer to you

• We will consult and work with you at every level
• of C4EO activity
• - cross-regional ADCS reference group
• - ADCS representation on each Theme Advisory
• Group
• - regional ADCS assistance to recruit and
  deploy
• sector specialists
• - Chair Programme Board

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Final thoughts

• Our website already offers resources on all 6
  themes.
• Centres first outputs available from October.
• The work on Narrowing the Gap will continue and
  its products will feed into C4EO.
• Were here to support you engagement is purely
  voluntary we are not a regulator nor new field
  force.
• Our Centre is your Centre it can only work with
  your active help and commitment

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• ..at heart of all of our endeavours is
  transforming outcomes for children, young people
  and their families (particularly those who are
  most vulnerable or in need)