JAR Strengths
The Inspectors said:
‘The overall effectiveness of the council’s children’s services is outstanding…..all services for children and young people in the borough are good or excellent and have had a very substantial impact on improving outcomes for almost all children and young people.’
Some of the strengths highlighted by the JAR inspectors, include:
- Health
outcomes are good or excellent, and schools and the youth
service are actively involved in promoting healthy lifestyles and provide good programmes of personal,
social and health education.
- Children are protected
well through
good inter-agency collaboration and well managed child protection procedures.
- Very
good progress has been made in setting up preventative services which provide early support as well
as more intensive work to children and their families.
- Education
standards overall are excellent. Children and young people benefit significantly, both in terms of the
standards they achieve and the progress they make as a result of attending a school in Kingston upon
Thames.
- The council and its partners demonstrate
a strong commitment
to involving all children and young people in contributing to project and service development through
the well-conceived participation strategy.
- A clear
and appropriate
strategy to meet the needs of 14-19 year olds is being systematically implemented. There is very good
collaborative working by partners including the further education college, the local LSC and Connexions
with the council providing a very strong lead.
- Young
people are
served well by a good youth service providing good value for money.
- Strong leadership and management of the children’s agenda, high calibre staff and elected members, underpinned by good relationships contribute to effective problem solving and a very good rate of overall progress.
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