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Our Priorities

Our core activities as a Regional Innovation and Improvement Alliance sit alongside our four priorities as identified by the Association of London Directors of Children’s Services (ALDCS).

Priority Areas

Ben Byrne is our Strategic Lead and each of our priorities is sponsored by a DCS and is directly supported by one or more of the LIIA team across a variety of interlacing projects. Our first three workstreams also have their own working group membership. Please click below for more details…

  • Core Activities

    LIIA bring London’s 33 children’s services together; promoting learning, facilitating collaboration, enabling governance, leveraging investment and sharing best practice, underpinned by data insights.

  • Adolescent Safeguarding

    Keeping young people safe in London remains an acute challenge and continues to be one of ALDCS’s key priorities. This workstream is led by Florence Kroll, Director of Children’s Services at Greenwich.

  • SEND

    The SEND Priority Workstream is led by Elaine Allegretti (DCS Barking and Dagenham), and supported by the SEND Steering Group and SEND Strategic Managers and Parent Carer Network.

  • Resources & Commissioning

    The Commissioning Priority Workstream is led by Chris Munday (DCS Barnet) and supported by the Pan-London Placements Commissioning Panel

  • Workforce

    The Workforce Priority Workstream is led by Nigel Chapman (DCS Brent) and supported by the London Workforce Steering Group.

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