Children’s Trusts

Capita’s 5th National Children’s Trusts Conference is timed to coincide with the crucial DCSF response to the Consultation on Statutory Guidance – dictating a national overhaul of the accountability, governance and inspection framework of children’s services.

With the consultation results expected to have far reaching implications for all Children’s Trust stakeholders, now is the time for senior children’s services professionals to come together to examine how best to strengthen and evidence the impact Trusts make on the lives of local children and young people.

Featuring Children’s Trust policy leads from the DCSF, Ofsted, the Commissioning Support Programme and Audit Commission, this must-attend event gives you a comprehensive strategic round up to inform your planning and commissioning decisions over the coming year.

Attend to ensure your organisation benefits from this valuable learning experience. Take away inspiration from local practitioners and examine how to maximise outcomes and meet the standards set in the DCSF’s Five Essential Features.

• Examine the first ever Financial Management guidelines specific to Children’s Trusts
• Learn how to better drive efficiencies across Children’s Services with your key partners, including those for outcomes based commissioning
• Understand how the new legal duty to “co-operate” on Children’s Trust Boards impacts on your partnership portfolio
• Take the chance to give your feedback on legislative changes, to the responsible Government and Inspection Agencies
• Integrate your Trust’s current strategic arrangements with those operating locally for Child Poverty, Safeguarding and Workforce Development
• Improve how you engage with statutory partners via your Trust, including strategies for integrating new and hard to involve bodies
• Benchmark, alongside Trusts from across the country, how to performance manage your Children’s and Young People’s Plans