Relationship with other inspections and reviews
The JAR will replace or subsume inspections of:
- Local education authorities and in particular the functions of:
- Raising standards.
- Monitoring, challenging and intervening in schools.
- Making provision for children with special educational needs (SEN) and promoting social inclusion.
- Council children's social care functions.
- Connexions services.
- Area provision for students aged 14-19.
- Children's Fund programmes.
- Youth Services, although there will be enhanced coverage of the youth service when it has not been inspected in the present cycle.
The JAR will evaluate aspects relevant to children and young people of:
- Police service (in relation to safeguarding children, domestic violence, community safety and crime reduction)
- Leisure and cultural services.
- Family learning and community action programmes.
- Health services, which will include:
- Aspects of primary health care covered by the key judgements such as speech and language therapy, health visiting and the school nursing service.
- Some aspects of secondary health care such as accident and emergency services.
- Commissioning of health services for children and young people.
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.
- Public health.
The JAR will use findings from continuing inspections of:
- Day care provision.
- Schools.
- Colleges.
- Training providers.
- Relevant thematic reviews of health care (e.g. children in hospital)Adoption and fostering services.
- Children's homes.
- Secure accommodation and young offender institutions.
- Provision for children and young people in Immigration Removal Centres.
- Provision for children and young people in prisons, including provision for the children of offenders.
- Private and voluntary healthcare, including mental health services.
- The work of the Children and Family Court Advisory Support service.
- Cultural services.
- Housing Services.
- Police work in relation to children and young people.
- Youth offending teams where the inspection has been conducted.
Inspections aligned and co-ordinated with the Joint Area Review:
- CPA corporate assessment.
- Youth offending team (when not previously inspected)
Last updated: 2 October 2006