A new toolkit from Together for Children provides practical advice forlocal authorities. The toolkit highlights the importance ofunderstanding and analysing a local situation and consulting widely, aswell as the need to treat children, parents and carers as individualsrather than make assumptions.
It also includes checklists that provide questions and discussion pointsfor local authorities, children's centres and partner organisations.These cover groups ranging from teenage parents, fathers, and minorityethic families, to disabled children and families in temporaryaccommodation.
- How can schools link consultation to their self-evaluation forms andschool improvement planning?
- The self-evaluation form is a key document and should reflectstakeholders' views. However, it is up to each school to decideprecisely who should be consulted and how views are gathered. And it isworth remembering that during Ofsted inspections, inspectors will askquestions that will link to consultation processes and outcomes such aswhy has a school chosen to develop particular extended services? Howdoes the school know that the services offered are wanted by and meetthe needs of the community?
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