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Valuing People wanted children with learning disabilities to get the best chances in life they could. The Valuing People Support Team does not work with Children's services, but there are other people who do help make things better for children. This page tells you a bit about them, and has other information you might find useful. We are doing work on the change from children's to adult services - transition. Visit the Transition section of this website to find out more.
Some useful papers and links:

Children with disabilities/ SEN Electronic Bulletin The Electronic bulletin is an email that gets sent every month. It has information, news and messages for people who want to know what's going on in services for children with disabilities. You can join the email list by contacting interconnections.services@virgin.net or ringing Peter Limbrick on 01905 23255. Change for Children Team The Change for Children Team are like the Valuing People Support Team, except they are trying to make services better for children. Find out more from the care Services Improvement Partnership website at www.csip.org.uk Every Child Matters: Change for Children In 2004 the Government brought out a paper to say how they thought they could make things better for children and young people. They wanted to make sure that all children got a good start in life, including children who get the worst deal - like children who are disabled, or are abused, or are in care. This was a Green Paper called 'Every Child Matters: Change for Children'. A Green Paper is a paper the government brings out with ideas in, to ask what people think of them. Afetr the Green Paper came another paper called 'Every Child Matters: the next steps', and The Children's Act 2004 which changed the law. Find out more from the links below.
FormatWhat the information is
www.everychildmatters.gov.ukThe website www.everychildmatters.gov.uk tells you all about the Green Paper, the Children's Act and and what is happening now to make changes happen.
http://www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/_files/F9E3F941DC8D4580539EE4C743E9371D.pdfEvery Child Matters: Change for Children - this paper tells you about the changes (Link to PDF in external website)
http://www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/children/The www.everychildmatters.gov.uk has a section for young people, which includes an easier to understand version of the Green Paper (written for young people and children)
Transforming Services for Children and Young PeopleTransforming Services for Children and Young People



This is the report from the Transforming Services for Childran and Young People event that took place on 21st June 2007. For more information, please contace Max on: hsaevents@helensandersonassociates.co.uk


National Service Framework for Children, Young People and Maternity Services The Children's National Service Framework is a 10 year plan to make health services for children better.
FormatWhat the information is
http://www.dh.gov.uk/The Department of Health website www.dh.gov.uk tells you about the National Service Framework for children, young people and maternity services
http://www.dh.gov.uk/assetRoot/04/08/92/26/04089226.pdfThere is an easyread version of the National Service Framework for Children (Link to PDF in external website, 1131 KB)

 
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