Publications
 Here you can find all the key documents which describe the way we provide services to children and families.
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Private fostering
Young Southwark
Fact sheets
There are a series of fact sheets that explain the key areas of Young Southwark's work.
Young Southwark strategy and Children and young people's plan
The Young Southwark strategy sets out how local services will work together to improve the lives of children, young people and their families, whilst the Children and young people's plan sets out in more detail the specific actions, timescales and resources required to achieve our priorities. There is also an Equality impact assessment of the plan (word 122kb).
Young Southwark commissioning framework
Joint planning and commissioning is at the heart of our children's trust. The Commissioning framework (pdf 289kb) is a tool to support the delivery of the Children and young people's plan.
Children and young people's participation framework
This Children and young people's participation framework (pdf 643kb) supports Young Southwark’s commitment to engaging actively with children and young people in the design, delivery and review of services, priorities and policy choices.
The views of children and young people in Southwark
This report provides a summary of the Views and perceptions of children and young people (pdf 197kb) based around the five Every Child Matters outcomes.
Planning guidance for partner organisations 2007
This Planning guidance (pdf 39kb) is for all Young Southwark partners as they review and produce updated versions of business plans to align with the Children and young people’s plan.
Children's services
Parenting support strategy 2007 to 2010
Our Parenting support strategy (pdf 816kb) provides a framework for our plans to provide support to meet the diverse needs of parents and children.
Children's workforce strategy 2006 to 2009
The Southwark children's workforce strategy (pdf 707kb) has been developed to support the delivery of our children and young people's plan with recruitment, training and managing our workforce.
Office for Public Management (OPM) appraisal of local preventative services
A number of reports prepared by OPM as part of the options appraisal of local preventative multi-agency services for children, young people and their families.
Contact
Family information service
Freephone: 0800 013 0639
family.info@southwark.gov.uk
www.southwark.gov.uk/familyinfo
15 Spa Road
London
SE1 3QW
Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm (and out of hours answerphone)
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