Liverpool City Council - Children"s services portfolio

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Children's services

This portfolio is managed by its executive director Stuart Smith and contains the following services, the:

  • Commissioning service ensures that effective joint planning and commissioning is at the heart of improving outcomes for children and young people. This work, involving both the council and the Primary Care Trust, makes sure that health, social care and education services for children and young people are providing effectively.
  • Corporate Parenting and Safeguarding service provides a social work and family support service for children in need, vulnerable children, looked after children and care leavers.
  • Special Educational Needs and Disability service provides specialist services to support children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities
  • Social Inclusion service provides a combination of services designed to provide support to and promote access for vulnerable pupils, their families and carers. This includes provision of services for excluded pupils, pupil attendance, behaviour support services, mental health services, parenting programmes
  • Strategic Intelligence team acts as a central support unit for the Children's Service portfolio. They gather data and then use this to draw conclusions about services in terms of prior, current and future performance. The team is responsible for the technical implementation of the Every Child Matters agenda for change and co-ordinates all statutory returns, and portfolio liaison with corporate teams
  • Strategic Planning and Regeneration service oversees the co-ordination of education and regeneration activities across the city, including the development, and management, of quality school buildings.
    Sure Start service manages the Sure Start centres in Liverpool. They, for example, provide support for parents/carers to access services, ensure there are sufficient high-quality childcare places and ensure the full participation of parents/carers, children and young ion service design and evaluation
  • Youth and Community service caters for the needs of children and young people between the ages of five and twenty-five.  These include play services, working in partnership to provide the widest range of opportunities for children and ensuring that young people are empowered to participate effectively in making and influencing decisions affecting them and their community
  • Youth Offending service provides services to young offenders and families, as well as to victims and communities. Their principle aim is to prevent and reduce youth offending. 

View the management structure for this portfolio
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