Good communication and partnership working amongst professionals is vital to improving outcomes for children and young people in Leicester.  As the JAR looked at all publicly funded services for children and young people in the city, including services directly managed or commissioned by the council along with those provided by health and youth justice services, it is even more crucial that all partners were engaged and involved in the inspection process and the post JAR work as a whole.

 

To support this engagement for the inspection, we set up a JAR Steering Group that acted as a multi-agency action group to ensure all the necessary work was undertaken in preparation for the Joint Area Review in January 2008. This also included the essential practical steps to try and guarantee a smooth inspection; as well as work to make sure that across agencies there was and sontinues to be a good understanding of our strengths and weakness and that plans are in place to further areas for development.

 

The group was directly accountable to the Leicester Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership and is chaired by the Senior Responsible Officer for the JAR within the Children and Young People’s Services.

 

The group met approximately every four weeks and was made up of the following member organisations:

 

 

In addition to communication at the steering group, we met and communicated with and widely distributed our JAR Newsletter to a number of other organisations including: