What's happening? The children's trusts guidance was published three years ago. All local authorities in England had to have these children's strategic partnerships in place by April 2008. The Department for Children, Schools and Families has published the Children's Plan, along with a revised national outcomes framework. Both the Children's Plan and outcomes framework are aligned with the new national indicators for local authorities and their partners.
So Every Child Matters is changing?
Developing rather than changing, although there's a noticeable sense of frustration in the draft children's trusts supplementary guidance that some Every Child Matters developments aren't happening quickly enough. Unsurprisingly, local authority attention has been fixed on implementing the structural changes - the appointment of directors of children's services, the establishment of local safeguarding children boards, the drafting and revision of children and young people's plans, the programme of joint inspections - and less on the even more difficult task of putting into operation an integrated strategy, processes, frontline delivery and inter-agency governance.
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