Council Milton Keynes
Performance Percentage of looked-after children who had their annual health assessment
The number of looked-after children receiving their annual health assessment in Milton Keynes has improved dramatically since 2006, when the local authority was behind the national average by more than 10 percentage points. Three years later, statistics show the authority is ahead at 96 per cent.
Alastair Gibbons, assistant director of specialist services at Milton Keynes Council, says a number of key issues were identified in 2006, when they found that the systems used to track young people coming in and out of care were not robust enough.
"We realised we were underperforming on a whole range of indicators because we had put all our focus on family support and keeping children out of care," says Gibbons.
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