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.
LIIA exists to;
- 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
Regional Delivery Priorities
The LIIA role in Children’s Social Care and Special Education Needs & Disabilities RIIA delivery links directly to ALDCS regionally agreed priorities and the Annual Plan for 2026/2027 where implementation of the reforms is our Primary Focus with established regional Priority Programmes which provide the platform through which reform implementation is supported, and Core Activities & Cross-Programme Enablers that underpin everything we do so as to effectively deliver the reforms.
You can review both the LIIA Annual Plan 2026/27 and the DfE Delivery Plan 2026/27 in the below resources.
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.
