Council Hertfordshire
Performance Percentage of looked-after children who had their annual health assessment
Over the course of three years, Hertfordshire County Council has boosted significantly the proportion of looked-after children who have their annual health assessments.
Much of the improvement has been put down to the introduction of a more centralised system for dealing with the issue.
Jonathan Fisher, Hertfordshire's head of looked-after children, says the process for organising the health assessments was overhauled after it became clear that professionals across the county were using different approaches to completing the checks.
To remedy this, the council gave the authority's looked-after children health team responsibility for the administrative side of the assessments.
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