Our Priorities

Read more below about our Priorities across the region…

About Our Priorities

Improvement East oversees the Self Assessment and Peer Challenge processes for Social Care and SEND across the region, alternating each year. These processes help establish regional priorities, which form the foundation of the Regional Development Plan. This plan is monitored throughout the year, with additional priorities incorporated as needed.

The East currently have 8 Regional Priorities that they are working on:

  • Reducing Budget Pressures and Making Cost Savings whilst Ensuring that Children and Young People Have Good Outcomes
  • Recruiting, Developing and Retaining a Skilled and Stable Children’s Services Workforce
  • Improving SEND Efficiency and Effectiveness Across the Region
  • Increasing Placement Sufficiency and Stability Across the Region
  • Working to Together to Ensure Care Leavers Experiences are Consistently Good/Better Across the Region
  • Focusing on School Attendance to Improve Educational Outcomes for Children and Young People in the East of England
  • Collaboration between LAs and the NHS to Improve Outcomes for Children and Young People Across the Eastern Region
  • Eastern Region Anti-Racist Practice Pledge/Commitment

Anti-Racist Practice

Budget Pressures

Photograph of the keynote speaker Dr Jenny Malloy at the Leaving Care Conference

Care Leaver Experience

LA/NHS Collaboration

Image of statistics from Foster East, including - there are 7000 children in case in the East of England.

Placement Sufficiency

School Attendance

SEND

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Workforce

Contact Details

For more information about our Priorities, please get in touch using the contact details below, or send an enquiry via our Contact page.

ERSLIP: Admin Team (Improvement East)

easternregioncib@norfolk.gov.uk

Local Authorities we work with:

Bedford Borough Council logo
Cambridgeshire County Council logo
Central Bedfordshire Council logo
Essex County Council logo
Hertfordshire Council logo
Luton Council logo
Norfolk County Council logo
Peterborough City Council logo
Southend City Council logo
Suffolk County Council logo
Thurrock Council logo