The council is the first in the UK to test out the approach - a systemof theory, practice and training that supports the overall developmentof the whole child.
Jonathan Stanley, manager of the National Centre for Excellence inResidential Child Care, called Essex "pioneers" in the approach.
The move is separate to the pilots being set up by the Department forChildren, Schools and Families (DCSF) as part of the Care Matters whitepaper.
Maureen Caton, head of residential and placement provision at EssexCounty Council, said that Essex's approach goes deeper than the DCSFpilots, to allow a county-wide understanding of social pedagogy.
"If we undertook the government pilot we wouldn't be able to have afully trained workforce across all our homes," she said. "We would onlyhave it in one or two, whereas we want to change our overallculture."
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