Council Wigan
Performance Percentage of looked-after children who had their annual health assessment
In 2006, little more than one in two looked-after children in Wigan were having an annual health assessment, well below the national average, which then stood at 83.2 per cent.
The latest statistics show a dramatic improvement with the figure for 2009 standing at 95 per cent, almost 10 per cent higher than the national average.
"It was the most under-performing area so it became a focus for the team. People began to ask the question 'what can we do better?' The more they looked, the more they found," says Anne Goldsmith, service director for transformation in children and young people's services.
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