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A message from Cllr Harry Harpham

Welcome to our website keeping you up-to-date with our Joint Area Review (JAR). We are doing an immense amount of work with children, young people and their families to make sure they remain safe and have the best possible opportunities in life.

Sheffield's Joint Area Review (JAR) report was published on 12 December 2006. This was a very thorough probing of the impact our services and strategies have on the health, safety, learning and employability of our young people.

The efforts of the local authority and our partner agencies are widely praised in the report and we are happy that we have demonstrated just how effective our work is on behalf of youngsters.

We are particularly pleased with our Outstanding grade for our 14-19 work with partners, which reflects the contribution children’s services are making to the regeneration of the city and its economic future. Our Learning for Life programmes provide over 2,500 work placements each week in specialist sites such as the Kier Construction Design Centre, and they are clearly making a difference to motivation, accreditation and job opportunities.

My heartfelt thanks and appreciation go out to the thousands of professionals and volunteers who work with children and families week in, week out and who make this city a great place to grow up.”.

Cllr Harry Harpham

Lead Member and Chair of the Children and Young People 0-19+ Partnership Board

A message from Jonathan Crossley-Holland

I am very pleased with this report. It is the first report we have received that covers all areas of the Directorate’s work, and that of partners. Since 1999 when the first judgements of Ofsted and CSCI, (SSI as it then was), have been made on Sheffield, grades have improved strongly to the point where we currently rank near the top of the 34 or so authorities who have so far been inspected under this new JAR process.

This is a strong vote of confidence in our new approach to joining up and delivering services that are better matched to users’ needs through Sure Start and children’s centres, schools, health centres and training sites – all co-ordinated by our new Service Districts.

As with all such reports, we look at how we can improve further and our top priorities are to press on with raising the standards in all schools, making sure the most vulnerable are safe and in continually developing local services so that Sheffield families have the support they need, when they need it.

Jonathan Crossley-Holland

Executive Director Children and Young People's Directorate

You can read the full report of the Sheffield Joint Area Review published on 12 December 2006

If you have any questions or comments about the Joint Area Review process please email us on cypdinformation@sheffield.gov.uk

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