Your Choice Timeline experimentation

2022
ALDCS Responds to CMA Report on CSC market

  Read the response to a report by the Competition and Markets Authority calling for action on the children’s social care market from Martin Pratt, Chair of the Association of London Directors of Children's Services (ALDCS) and Cllr Damian White, Leader of Havering Council.

Delivering therapeutic support for young people

Your Choice media launch! 'A new programme centred on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is being delivered to 2,500 children and young people at greatest risk of violence in every London borough'

Sharp rise in children’s social workers leaving

The number of  social workers leaving children’s posts in English councils or trusts has spiked to its highest point in at least five years, according to Department for Education figures

LIIA is Hiring!

Intelligence Analyst Starting salary: £43,675 per annum Length: 12 Month Fixed Term Contract (secondment opportunity)

Latest SEN Transport Report & Findings

Challenges and good practice – findings from London Councils’ SEN transport research

Ethnic minority social workers in the UK

This review is one of two rapid reviews written by What Works for Children’s Social Care that focuses on ethnic inequalities within children’s social care. The review aims to evaluate the existing evidence base on the representation, welfare, progression and retention of ethnic minority social workers in Britain. T

New Report on Children & Young People’s Wellbeing

New report published today focused on supporting the continued efforts to raise the wellbeing of children and young people in England as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic.

LIIA Recovery Fund Project Update Page

Last year London was awarded regional funding by the government's national Children’s Social Care Covid-19 Regional Recovery and Building Back Better Fund. For the first time London submitted a collaborative bid through LIIA, with excellent results.

Your Choice Programme Launch!

Your Choice is a London-wide £10 million, 3-year programme that at its core seeks to reinterpret the use of CBT principles within current best practice in violence-reduction and related partnership approaches to effectively supporting children affected by extra-familial violence and related harms.

2021
The LIIA Team is Hiring

Join LIIA team to support the achievement of our vision and priorities for London's children.

March 2024

October 2023

Front cover of YC Pilot Report

Your Choice Pilot Report Published

October 2021 – March 2022

Home Office phase

The Home Office funded the first phase of the Your Choice programme.