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Service delivery - Children’s social care programme

This programme aims to improve children's services in Cheshire East by developing better commissioning models, new housing for care leavers, and stronger partnerships. It focuses on helping children with complex needs, redesigning service access, and ensuring placements match children's needs.

Activities from the Children’s social care project
ProjectDescriptionFinancial benefitsNon-financial benefits
Children’s Commissioning This project has developed a comprehensive view of commissioned across Children's Services. It will review best practice and models from other council to develop a high-level operating model for Children’s Commissioning.  Improved outcomes for children, young people and families.
Improved value from commissioned services and placements.
New Accommodation 16-25 This project is focused around developing a new model of accommodation for care leavers aged 16-25 years.  
  • 2025/26: £1.1M
  • 2026/27: £700K

Improved outcomes for care leavers.
Thrive in 25

This project will deliver on the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools bill, encompassing strengthening partnerships, developing Family Help and Child Protection models, and embedding sustainable practice changes.

Compliance with the new Children’s Wellbeing and Schools legislation.
Birth to Thrive

This project seeks to ensure that more children go on to lead fulfilling, sustainable adult lives. It will design and implement clear processes for children with complex needs to access streamlined and consistent offers of support.
  • 2025/26: £868K
  • 2026/27: £868K

Improved outcomes for young people with complex needs through design of new function/service to support preparing for adulthood and transitions, measured by service user and staff feedback.
Integrated Front Door

This project is aimed at redesigning the service model at the Front Door to Children's Services to improve experiences and outcomes. It will cover multi-agency collaboration, processes, data, and workforce elements.

To be confirmed.
Right Child, Right Home

This project aims to ensure every child or young person in Cheshire East is in a placement aligned to their true strengths and needs. It is establishing a reunification policy and process, embedding step-down panels to discuss and challenge current placements, and tracking financial and non-financial benefits of placement moves.
  • 2025/26: £1.32M
  • 2026/27: £1.3M
  • 2027/28: £725k
  • 2028/29: £725K

Improved outcomes for vulnerable children and young people through enhanced practice quality and more streamlined, effective approach to care planning.

Page last reviewed: 01 May 2025