Recognition among policymakers that collaborative working by children's leaders can play a key role in the drive to improve standards across children's services has been growing recently.
In July, children's minister Robert Goodwill announced that the Department for Education is in the early stages of developing a comprehensive improvement system for struggling children's services departments. This will build on work it started alongside the Local Government Association (LGA) and Association of Directors of Children's Services (ADCS) last year to develop an "early warning system" to identify authorities where standards are slipping.
Speaking at the association's recent annual conference, ADCS president Alison Michalska said the work could see the creation of "regional improvement alliances" that could "take us closer than we've ever been to a sector-led, self-improving system in children's services".
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