Together For London’s Children
We facilitate collaboration that benefits children and young people. We do this by tackling agreed London-wide priorities that are set through the Association of London Directors of Children’s Services (ALDCS).
Hosted by London Councils, LIIA is the capital’s Regional Improvement and Innovation Alliance (RIIA) and works with Department for Education, the Local Government Association (LGA), the Society of Local Authority Chief Executives (SOLACE) and the eight other RIIA across the country to promote learning, facilitate collaboration, enable governance, leverage investment and share best practice solutions for mutual benefit.
We are taking forward five priority programmes on behalf of ALDCS in response to the most pressing challenges in the children’s sector, namely:
- Adolescent Safeguarding
- SEND
- Resources & Commissioning
- Workforce
- Care Leaving
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Purpose
- To make a positive impact for children: to improve the lives of those with the greatest need
- To contribute to financial sustainability: to ensure our innovations bring about collaboration that leads to better managed cost and demand
- To amplify the voice of London’s children: to listen and act on the needs of London’s children
- To shift culture towards collaboration: to share, challenge, learn and problem-solve across London’s councils as the norm
- To facilitate shared intelligence: to ensure decision-making and resource allocation is based on a systematic approach
- To create a common governance structure: to enable London’s children’s services to work better together and with partners
Core Activities & Enablers
- Influencing and embedding national social care reform, strengthening shared learning and multi-agency partnership working
- Delivering ALDCS ambitions and developing a stable and sustainable LIIA operating model
- Baking-in Anti-Racism and Disproportionality across all priority areas
- Making Data speak for London’s Children
- Enabling Sector-led Improvement, peer challenge and review and sharing best practice
- Developing and facilitating collaboration both in and between networks, boards and partners
Governance
LIIA are founded upon a Memorandum of Understanding agreed between all of London’s local authorities. We are funded by local authority subscription and DfE grant and governed by the LIIA Board.
