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Directorates and service areas

Children and Young People's Services

Director Stuart Smith

• E-mail
• stuart.smith@calderdale.gov.uk
• Address
• Northgate House
  Halifax HX1 1UN
• Telephone
• 01422 392500
• Fax
• 01422 392481.

There are four service areas within Children and Young People's Services:

Children's Trust

This service area provides a range of support services under Business Improvement and Commissioning and Partnership. The area of business improvement provides a range of front-line and support services to customers including parents, children, young people and schools.

• Strategic planning for schools capital
• Asset management and support including the health and safety function for schools
• Planning and commissioning school places
• Responsibility for admissions and the management of admissions appeals
• Strategic planning and management of home-school transport service
• Support for individual schools on strategic budget management
• Strategic planning management an oversight of the allocation, monitoring and management of the dedicated schools grant.
• Co-ordination of the schools forum
• Directorate strategic finance and liaison with corporate finance.

Commissioning and Partnership Services are responsible for co-ordinating and administering the Children and Young People’s Partnership Executive and the Children and Young People’s Commissioning Group including responsibility for the partnership children and young people’s plan and commissioning plan.

This service is responsible for a wide range of commissioning including voluntary and community sector contracts, short break service for disabled children, and the commissioning of placements for looked after children and children with special educational needs. The service leads on management information, quality assurance and performance management across the directorate.

This area currently has responsibility for the Calderdale Safeguarding Children Board and the Independent Reviewing Officers providing reviews for looked after children and the child protection conferencing service.

This area is responsible for managing the involvement and participation of children and young people.

Interim Head of Service Sian Rees

• E-mail
• sian.rees@calderdale.gov.uk
• Telephone
• 01422 392527
• Fax
• 01422 392481.

Children's Social Care

Children’s Social Care is responsible for assessing and meeting the needs of children in need, looked after children and care leavers and children subject to a Child Protection Plan. It also provides a range of family support services.

Social care for children and families provides help to families to enable them to meet the needs of their children. The service can provide support to families and more specialist help when it is needed to enable children to be brought up and cared for within their own families.

The following services are available:

• protecting children relies upon working in partnership with children, parents and other organisations
• providing care for children who, for whatever reason, cannot be cared for by their own families
• assessing the needs of disabled children and young people
• offering help and advice and support to families

Interim Head of Service Fiona Fitzpatrick

• E-mail
• fiona.fitzpatrick@calderdale.gov.uk
• Telephone
• 01422 392722
• Fax
• 01422 392481.

Family Services

Family Services is responsible for providing a range of flexible and accessible preventative, early intervention and support services. The service plays an important role in improving outcomes for children, young people and their families by increasing the support at an earlier stage particularly for children with disabilities and additional needs. The services provided include, young people's services, integrated youth support services, all services to disabled children and their families, support to children and young people who need extra help in school and Youth Offending Team.

• Head of Service
• Anne Scarborough
• E-mail
• anne.scarborough@calderdale.gov.uk
• Telephone
• 01422 392663
• Fax
• 01422 392481.

Learning Services

Learning Services is responsible for monitoring, supporting and challenging schools to improve attainment and the quality of provision for children and young people aged 3 to 19. There are over 18,500 primary and 15,500 secondary pupils being educated in Calderdale schools. The service also has the responsibility to intervene in schools when necessary. The service carefully targets resources provided towards those schools needing the most support to secure improvement in teaching and learning and the attainment and achievement of pupils. Learning Services also provide the Music Service and Adult and Community Learning.

• Head of Service
• David Whalley
• E-mail
• david.whalley@calderdale.gov.uk
• Telephone
• 01422 392716
• Fax
• 01422 392481.

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