The Centre for Excellence and Outcomes for Children and Young People’s services (CfEO)
Improving outcomes for children, young people and their families is at the heart of the Every Child Matters agenda and has been given a renewed impetus through the Children's Plan, published by the Department for Children Schools and Families (DCSF) in December 2007. The Children's Plan, places an expectation on local authorities and their strategic partners in Children's Trusts to champion and take responsibility for achieving measurable improvements in the lives of children across all five of the Every Child Matters Outcomes.
In December 2007, the DCSF launched a bidding process to identify an organisation or consortium to launch and run the CfEO.. The CfEO, once operational in July 2008, will support a focus on the difference that still needs to be made to improving outcomes for children, young people and their families by co-ordinating local, regional and national intelligence about what works. The CfEO will also provide an offer of support to local government and its partners to tailor the learning from this intelligence to their local contexts.
The CfEO will identify, co-ordinate and disseminate national, regional and local knowledge and evidence about systems and practice - where outcomes and services for children and young people are improving. The CfEO will achieve this by:
- identifying where, why and how the lives of children and young people are improving, as a result of both the services they and their families receive and the initiatives in a local area to improve outcomes;
- facilitating the bringing together of new partners at local, regional and national level to support a focus on outcomes, analysis of trends and action;
- using local government and its partners to improve and build its own capacity and expertise to share good practice, improving both services and outcomes for children and young people.
Further information on the CfEO is available in the CfEO Q&A.
This page was last updated on 28 March 2008
