Together for Children

Serco is one of the leading private sector partners operating within the education and children's services sectors.

4Children is the national charity dedicated to creating opportunities and building futures for all children.

Is a leading management, systems and technology consulting firm.

ContinYou is one of the UK’s leading community learning charities which uses learning to tackle inequality and build social inclusion.

Aspect is the only professional association and trade union exclusively representing professionals working in educational improvement and children's services. Members are based throughout the UK, and work across a broad range of sectors serving the interests of all children and young people, including the public, private, faith, voluntary and community sectors. Please click here to read an article by John Chowcat - "A strong voice for children’s centre managers"

The Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People’s Services (C4EO) is an organisation, developed for the children’s sector, from the children’s sector. C4EO aims to improve outcomes for children, young people and their families in England by identifying and coordinating the evidence of ‘what works’ at national, regional and local level.

This guide has been created with CABE for the next phase of delivery. Drawing on the lessons that local authorities and other key partners have learned and highlighting the importance of quality design, the guide focuses on both the preparation for, and the design of, a children’s centre and other early years facilities.

Capacity is a new public interest body, offering strategic support to statutory and other agencies involved in the creation and delivery of children's services, together with fresh perspectives for improving the quality of children's lives

Draws together information on childcare and related services from across the country.

Weekly publication for everyone working with children and families.

CWDC exists to improve the lives of children, young people, their families and carers by ensuring that all people working with them have the best possible training, qualifications, support and advice. It also helps children and young people's organisations and services to work together better so that the child is at the centre of all services.

ChIS.Biz is the communication website for Children's Information Services across England.  The website contains useful and up-to-date information supporting your work delivering information to parents and families.

This consultation seeks views on the draft statutory guidance on the Early Years outcomes duty. This new duty requires local authorities to improve outcomes for all young children in their area and reduce inequalities, through the provision of accessible and integrated early childhood services.

The Department for Children, Schools and Families  (DCSF) is a United Kingdom government department, responsible for the education system and children's services in England.

Pubic services all in one place.

Early Support is for families with young disabled children.  It is the Government’s recommended approach to co-ordinating services across England.

This document is aimed at anyone working outreach with children from Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities. Its purpose is to share and reflect the work, knowledge and ideas of practitioners nationally. It draws on the experiences and understanding of practitioners currently working in rural and urban locations, within Traveller Education Support Service (TESS)teams and in Sure Start Children Centres.

EM Direct has been awarded a 5 year contract with the Children’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC) as a provider of funded training and assessment for Early Years Professional Status (EYPS) in the Government Office regions of the East Midlands and Yorkshire & the Humber

Every Child Matters: Change for Children is a new approach to the well-being of children and young people from birth to age 19.

We want all disabled children and their families to have the right to the services and support they need to live ordinary lives.

The national information centre on fatherhood.  We're here to help you harness the full potential of fatherhood with news, training information, policy updates, research summaries and guides for supporting fathers and their families.

Grants4Schools is an essential management tool for all UK schools that are looking to fundraise and features the latest news on new funding opportunities, calls for applications, a searchable grants database, grants directory and mind map. Learn by example through our featured case studies.

We work to foster the development of speech, language and communication skills in all children with a special focus on those who find this hard: children with a communication disability.

Charitable organisation that acts as an umbrella body for organisations working with children and young people in England & Northern Ireland.

National Day Nurseries Association is a national charity which aims to enhance the development and education of children in their early years, through the provision of support services to members.

This website is intended for all those concerned with or interested in the evaluation of Sure Start, but has particular relevance for staff employed in Sure Start projects and local Evaluators of Sure Start projects.

The National Professional Qualification in Integrated Centre Leadership (NPQICL) is the first national programme to address the needs of leaders within multi-agency, early years settings.

The Department of Work and Pensions ‘now let’s talk money’ campaign offers a free phone service, to help people on low incomes.

The latest on the Government's work on education policy and schools.

The leading magazine for early years and childcare practitioners.

The new Ofsted, a new single inspectorate for children and learners, has been created with a mission to raise standards and improve lives.

Opportunity Links is committed to helping parents make important choices about balancing their home and working lives.

Developing support for parents as partners in their children's early learning.

Information and support for parents on how to help with your child's learning, including advice on choosing a school and finding childcare.

PEAL is a joint project of National Children’s Bureau, NDNA, NCMA, PLA and Parenting UK, funded for a second phase by the Department for Education and Skills, under the Early Learning Partnership Strand 3 Programme.

Rainer is the national charity for under-supported young people.

For news, views, research reviews, summaries, policy insights, projects, publications and learning events.

Sure Start is the government programme to deliver the best start in life for every child. Sure Start brings together, early education, childcare, health and family support.

The aim of the Thames Valley Partnership’s Family Matters programme is to support the resettlement of offenders and break the cycle of offending.

This booklet, published by Capacity, considers education policies as they affect children and families, in particular the reform of children's services represented by Every Child Matters

The Parenting Fund was set up by the government's Department for Education and Skills (DfES) in 2004 in order to:  Do more for parents who have been less well served in the past.   Strengthen the network of services in the voluntary sector that support parents in bringing up their children and highlight and promote good practices so that they can be used by all family and parent support services.

The Training and Development Agency for Schools (the TDA) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department for Education and Skills. The principal aim of the TDA is to secure an effective school workforce that improves children’s life chances.

Wishes, a ground breaking parent learning project designed by Capacity for Thurrock Children's Centres, helps mainly unemployed parents into learning, training and work, supporting them to achieve their own wishes for themselves and their families. Parents are able to make the most of these opportunities because most of the workshops and courses are free, they have help with childcare and transport, and learning mentors are on hand with advice and support. Wishes is innovative because it is helping to achieve outcomes for children by helping parents to achieve economic well-being, it is community focussed, successfully overcoming barriers to learning, and is not limited to one Children's Centre, but is run across the whole borough. Wishes works with the most excluded families in the community in a way that could be replicated elsewhere in the country.

This site has been commissioned by the government’s Teenage Pregnancy Unit to support practitioners working with young fathers. It will help implement Teenage Parents Next Steps: Guidance for Local Authorities and Primary Care Trusts (DCSF & DH, 2007 ). At the heart of the site is a message board that will enable practitioners to network with colleagues working across the country (and beyond).