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LEAD MEMBER FOR CHILDREN’S SERVICES
LOCAL AUTHORITY LEAD OFFICER FOR CHILD PROTECTION
LOCAL PUBLIC SERVICE AGREEMENTS (LPSA)
LEARNING DIFFICULTIES AND DISABILITIES (LDD)
LEGAL BASIS (for processing personal data)
LEGITIMATE PURPOSE (for processing personal data)
LOCAL SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN BOARD
LEAD MEMBER FOR CHILDREN’S SERVICES
Under section 19 of the Children Act 2004, every top tier local authority in England will be required to designate a lead member for children’s services. The lead member will provide political leadership on children’s services within the authority and will have responsibility for the same set of functions as the director of children’s services.
LOCAL AUTHORITY LEAD OFFICER FOR CHILD PROTECTION
All local authorities are required to identify a lead officer for child protection. This will be a senior officer whose role is to take lead responsibility for child protection in the education service across the authority.
LOCAL PUBLIC SERVICE AGREEMENTS (LPSA) – See also Local Area Agreements
Local Public Service Agreements provide individual authorities with the opportunity to sign up to challenging targets to deliver key national and local priorities in return for operational flexibilities and incentives, with rewards for success. Local public service agreements build on the foundation provided by best value and help to encourage innovation and commitment to better performance.
A professional person who acts as a single point of contact that children, young people and their families can trust, and who is able to support them in making choices and in navigating their way through the system as well as ensuring that children and families get appropriate interventions when needed which are well planned, regularly reviewed and effectively delivered and at the sametime someone who works to reduce overlap and inconsistency from other practitioners.
This Act created the Learning and Skills Council with the aim of improving the skills of England's young people (and adults) so that by 2010, they will have the knowledge and skills matching the best in the world. Section 117 provides for help to a young person to enable them to take part in further education and training. Section 119 enables Connexions services to share information with the Benefits Agency and Jobcentre Plus to support young people to obtain appropriate benefits.
The Learning and Skills Council is a non-departmental public body responsible for planning and funding education and training for over 16-year-olds in England other than in higher education. The Council is advised by two statutory committees: the Adult Learning Committee, and the Young Person’s Learning Committee.
LEARNING DIFFICULTIES AND DISABILITIES (LDD)
- LEARNING DIFFICULTY
Learning difficulty is a term used to describe any one of a number of barriers to learning that a child may experience. Children with learning difficulties may find activities that involve thinking and understanding particularly difficult, and many need support in their everyday lives as well as at school. Learning difficulty is defined in the Education Act 1996, which along with the Special Educational Needs and Disability Act 2001, provides the legislative basis for assessing and meeting the needs of children with special educational needs.
- LEARNING DISABILITY
People who have a learning disability have difficulties learning and find it particularly hard to understand new and complex information, and to develop new skills. A learning disability is a lifelong condition that is usually present from birth, although it may not become apparent until a child fails to reach particular developmental milestones. Learning disability is a relatively new term that has emerged over the last 20 years or so. Previously, people used to refer to someone as having a ‘mental handicap’.
Learning support units (LSUs) are typically in-school based centres providing short-term teaching and support programmes for pupils who are already disaffected, at risk of exclusion, or vulnerable because of social or family issues.
LEGAL BASIS (for processing personal data)
It is illegal (under the Data Protection Act 1998) to hold or otherwise process personal or personal sensitive data unless it is either done with the data subject's consent, or in order to create or perform a contract with them, or it meets one of the other statutory criteria set out in the Data Protection Act 1998 Schedule 2 and 3. (These schedules are in Appendix 2 of the company’s Data Protection Policy and Procedures).
LEGITIMATE PURPOSE (for processing personal data)
The Data Protection Act 1998 lays down specific conditions that must be met to process personal or personal sensitive data. (see Legal Basis). These include that data must only be collected for specified, explicit and legitimate (lawful and genuine) purposes.
The list of teachers youth workers and other workers with children and young people who have been excluded from employment because of misconduct or medical grounds.
Local Area Agreement marks a change in central government and local government relations to deliver real benefits to communities by bringing together key local partners to improve local services. By simplifying the number of funding streams from central government and focusing on a core set of outcomes, a Local Area Agreement cuts down on bureaucracy and give local areas much greater freedom to spend on local priorities.
LOCAL SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN BOARD
Local Safeguarding Children Boards are to replace non-statutory Area Child Protection Committees and The Children Act 2004 requires that all local authorities establish a Local Safeguarding Children Board by April 2006.
This is the term used to describe any child who is in the care of the local authority or who is provided with accommodation by the local authority social services department for a continuous period of more than 24 hours. The term was in the Children Act 1989.
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