Every Child Matters

The government paper Every Child Matters, which is now the basis for the Children Act 2004, aims to improve opportunities and outcomes for children, young people and families. This legislation is central to making inclusion happen in schools. Key elements include ... 

Every Child Matters outlines five key outcomes for children ... 

Children Act 2004 and Every Child Matters fact sheets www.dfes.gov.uk... 

Details of different agencies and their statutory remit and the function of the various agencies including schools under the Children Act, and a range of Every Child Matters initiatives, www.everychildmatters.gov.uk... 

Children s centres are models of integrated service provision and contribute directly to the Every Child Matters outcomes. Many will be based in primary schools. This will enable those schools to be at the heart of the local community s multidisciplinary approach. The advantages for schools in having a centre as part of their provision is great. In particular those of ... 

Learning mentors play a key role in delivering the five outcomes of Every Child Matters and the government agenda for personalised learning. 

Ensure that programmes and initiatives fit the Every Child Matters agenda. 

To establish an inclusion policy for (a.n. other) school which meets the needs of pupils and parents, sets clear guidance for staff and other agencies, and ensures the school meets its legal requirements in relation to SEN guidance, Every Child Matters and the Children s Services framework. 

Range of curriculum - providing whole range of life experiences - appropriate to individual needs - meet the requirements of Every Child Matters outcomes. Vocational, life skills and personalised learning as well as academic courses. 

In the light of the new Children s Services agenda, it would be useful to develop an inclusion policy around the five key outcomes of Every Child Matters ... 

As these Every Child Matters five key outcomes will drive future inspections, services and provision it makes sense to start developing policies and practices around these areas. This will also help to develop a common framework for discussions with multidisciplinary professionals and... 

The policy should be clearly linked to the Every Child Matters key outcomes. 

The lead professional role has emerged from Every Child Matters in the development of integrated children s services and is included in statutory guidance relating to seaions 10 and 11 of the Children... 

There are many different approaches to self-evaluation and inclusion, with a range of tools, performance indicators and targets available to schools. It is important to adopt a self-evaluation strategy and a range of tools which best fit the nature and context of your school. Self-evaluation is about helping schools ensure continuous improvement and should not be undertaken solely for the purpose of inspection OFSTED recognises the importance of self-evaluation as a continuous process that is complemented from time to time by external inspection Every Child Matters - Framework for the Inspection of Schools in England from September 2005 - OFSTED, 2005). 

Multi-agency approach Every Child Matters Common, complementary and distinctive... 

Changes to OFSTED inspections took place from September 2005 - these are set out in the document Every Child Matters - Framework for the Inspection of Schools in England from September 2005. Inspections will continue to give a view of the overall quality of the school, what it does well and not so well. There will be, as before, key issues and areas for further improvement. However, there are some key changes, including the following ... 

There are supplementary questions for all the key inspection judgements and the Every Child Matters criteria. The judgement grades are ... 

The Framework also refleas the requirement in the Ghildren Aa 2004 for OFSTED to develop (in partnership with others) a coherent framework for the integrated inspection of children s services. This means that judgements made in individual school inspections can feed into the Joint Area Reviews of Children s Services which will be carried out in every local authority area in England over a three-year period. These reviews will ewduate the quality of provision in an area and the extent to which children and young people are achieving the Every Child Matters outcomes. 

The Every Child Matters agenda evidence can be elicited from the inclusion policy if it is constmcted under those headings, as well as from the inclusion strategy. 

However, inspectors will look at the impact of additional services on the Every Child Matters outcomes. They will want to discuss ... 

Every Child Matters - Arrangements for Joint Area Reviews of Children s Services... 

The Every Child Matters five key outcomes will be the basis for all of the above... 

Local authorities in England will receive a ring-fenced grant from the DfES for their school provision known as the Dedicated Schools Grant (DSG) with a minimum increase of 5 per cent each year. If they wish, local authorities can increase the DSG using other budgets to support Every Child Matters work. 

OFSTED (September 2005) Every Child Matters - Framework for the Inspection of Schools in England, OFSTED. 

Crawley, H./ILPA (2006) Child First, Migrant Second Ensuring that Every Child Matters. Lortdon ImmigratiDn Lawyers Practitioner Association. <> (accessed 20 December 2012). 

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