This Glossary of Terms contains abbreviations and acronyms as well as definitions of terms used by Education, Health, Social Services, both locally and nationally, and other agencies associated with The Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership.
It is designed for public and professional use.
This glossary is not exhaustive. Please forward your suggestions and amendments by e-mail to:
| “ECM – Next Steps” | “Every Child Matters – Next Steps” Published in March 2004, this document outlines the plans toward a programme of change for children and young people. This document also explains how the new Children Bill creates the “legislative spine” for better services focuses around the needs of children, young people and families. | |
| ABCs | Acceptable behaviour contracts are written agreements between unruly neighbours, typically teenagers, and the police and other public agencies banning antisocial behaviour. The contracts are not legally binding but if breached they can lead to tougher sanctions which are. The contracts are used as more moderate alternatives to the tougher antisocial behaviour orders. | |
| ABE | Adult Basic Education | |
| Absconded | A child who has gone missing from public care provision. | |
| Accommodated | Children who are looked-after by their Local Authority, but are not subject to Care Orders. | |
| ACE | Accessing Children in Education | |
| ACE | Advisory Centre for Education | |
| ACET | Adult Continuing Education and Training | |
| ACL | Adult and Community Learning | |
| ACPC | Area Child Protection Committee is a non-statutory committee made up of staff from all agencies concerned with children and families and with responsibility for child protection. The ACPC has a key role in evaluating and reviewing services, developing inter-agency training, raising awareness and conducting case reviews. To be replaced by statutory Local Safeguarding Children Boards. | |
| ACPI | Audit Commission Performance Indicator | |
| ACS | Adult Care Services | |
| ACS | Average Class Size | |
| ACU | The Active Communities Unit Government body located in the Home Office tasked to create a "change in culture, in which being active in your community is a usual and everyday thing." It works to create local infrastructures for people to become more involved, including improving opportunities for volunteering, training and mentoring Inside the Home Office. | |
| Acute Paediatrics | Hospital care of sick children provided by NHS Trusts. | |
| Acute Services | Medical and surgical treatment provided mainly in hospitals. Acute Trusts are management units in charge of hospitals providing these services. | |
| ADCE | Advanced Diploma in Children’s Care and Education | |
| ADD | Attention Deficit Disorder is a developmental problem people experience, which usually begins at an early age and can be severe. People with ADD find it extremely difficult concentrating, are overactive and impulsive. People who are also hyperactive may be diagnosed with ADHD, Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder. | |
| ADHD | Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (see ADD) | |
| Adoption | This is the process by which all parental rights and responsibilities for a child are permanently transferred to an adoptive parent by a court. As a result the child legally becomes part of the adoptive family. | |
| Advocacy | Advocates support and argue the case for a service user or help them to put across their point of view. They are usually employed in social care to support disadvantaged groups such as the mentally ill and disabled individuals. | |
| AE | Adult Education | |
| AE | Advanced Extension | |
| AEN | Additional Educational Needs | |
| AEP | Association of Educational Psychologists | |
| AF | Admissions Forum | |
| AHA | Area-Health Authority | |
| AHFAS | Association of Heads of Foundation and Aided Schools | |
| ALF | Activity-led Funding | |
| ALI | Adult Learning Inspectorate | |
| Allocated Case | A case that has been made the responsibility of a named social worker or other key worker until the case is closed, transferred or managed in another way so that the named worker is no longer responsible for it. | |
| ALS | Additional Literacy Support | |
| AMP | Asset Management Plan | |
| Annual Review | The review of a statement of special educational needs which an LEA must make within 12 months of making the statement or, as the case may be, of the previous review. | |
| AoT | Adults other than Teachers | |
| APEL | Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning | |
| APIR | Assessment, Planning, Implementation and Review (Connexions) structure to underpin the work of Personal Advisers. It provides a methodology and supporting materials through which a young person supported by their Personal Adviser can develop and implement a personal action plan for realising their goals based on a holistic assessment of their needs. | |
| APL | Accreditation of Prior Learning | |
| APM | Annual Parents' Meeting - meeting of the Governing Body with parents. | |
| APT&C | Administrative, Professional, Technical and Clerical Grades | |
| ARP | Additional Responsibility Points (for teachers) | |
| AS | Advanced Subsidiary Examination | |
| ASB | Aggregated Schools Budget | |
| ASBO | An anti-social behaviour order is a community based order akin to an injunction. It can be applied for by the police or local authority against an individual who acts in an anti-social manner - that is, a manner which causes harassment, alarm or distress to one or more people in a different household to the defendant Home Office Guide to Anti-Social Behaviour Orders and Acceptable Behaviour Contracts. | |
| ASD | Autistic spectrum disorder is a relatively new term which recognises that there are a number of sub-groups within the spectrum of autism. Pupils with autistic spectrum disorder find it difficult to: | |
| ASDAN | Award Scheme Development and Accreditation Network | |
| ASE | Association for Science Education | |
| Asperger’s Syndrome | See ASD (Autistic Spectrum Disorder) | |
| Aspire | National Children’s Homes service delivery model for systemic service delivery. Used by Sure Start. | |
| Assessment of need | | |
| Assessment/ | This is a pre-arranged meeting between a person that believes they may benefit from help from Social Services and usually (though not always) a member of the Social Services team. At the meeting, which is normally at your home, you will agree what help would be appropriate to meet your needs. People often feel that they would like a friend or advocate at the meeting. All assessments are free of charge. They can be arranged through your GP or hospital, or you can contact your local Social Services office independently and ask for an assessment. | |
| AST | Advanced Skills Teacher | |
| ASW | Approved Social Worker’s are qualified social workers in England and Wales trained to carry out a range of statutory duties in mental health services. | |
| AT | Advisory Teacher | |
| AT | Attainment Target | |
| ATL | Association of Teachers and Lecturers | |
| ATO | Approved Training Organisation | |
| AVA | Audio Visual Aids | |
| AVCE | Advanced Vocational Certificate of Education | |
| AWPU | Age-Weighted Pupil Unit | |
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| BBC | Bournemouth Borough Council | |
| BC | Borough Council | |
| BCA | Basic Credit Approval | |
| BCCA | Bournemouth Centre for Community Arts | |
| BDA | British Dyslexia Association | |
| BECTa | British Educational Communications and Technology agency | |
| BEDC | Bournemouth Education Development Centre | |
| Behaviour Support Teacher | A specialist teacher with experience in dealing with pupils exhibiting emotional and behavioural difficulties. | |
| BELMAS | British Educational Leadership, Management and Administration Society | |
| BEM | Business Excellence Model | |
| BEMS | Building Energy Maintenance Systems | |
| BESD | Behavioural, Emotional and Social Difficulties is a category of Special Educational Need. | |
| BEST | Behaviour and Education Support Team | |
| Best-Value Inspection Service | Inspects local government service, giving them two marks of between zero and three – first for their performance and second for their likelihood of improving. Also responsible for producing annual league tables of overall council performance. Part of the audit commission. | |
| BIC | Bournemouth International Centre | |
| BIP | Behaviour Improvement Programme | |
| Block Contract | A block contract is a contract which guarantees a given volume of business with the service provider. This has the benefit that the contractor obtains a reduction in the unit cost of the service provided. | |
| BLSC | Bournemouth Learning Support Centre | |
| BME | Black and Minority Ethnic | |
| BN | Basic Need | |
| BP | Bournemouth Partnership | |
| BSA | Basic Skills Agency | |
| BSP | Behaviour Support Plans | |
| BTEC | Business and Technology Education Council | |
| BTiE | Bournemouth Theatre in Education | |
| BTPCT | Bournemouth Teaching Primary Care Trust | |
| BV | Best Value | |
| BVPI | Best Value Performance Indicator | |
| BVR | The Best Value Review is a regime that aims to continuously improve local government performance through a programme of reviews and inspections. Councils must examine their services according to four-guiding principles. They must challenge how, why and by whom a service is provided; compare its performance with that of other authorities; consult service users; and use competition to get the best service available. | |
| Cabinet | A way of running Local Authorities based on the Westminster model of cabinet government. Up to 10 councillors are chosen to take on the day-to-day running of a Local Authority – they are either appointed by a directly-elected mayor or elected by their fellow local politicians. | |
| CAF | Common Assessment Framework | |
| CAFCASS | Children & Family Court Advisory & Support Service this brings together the family court welfare service, the Guardians ad litem – now called children’s guardians – and the children’s branch of the official solicitor’s department. | |
| CAMHS | Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service are multi-disciplinary teams made up of a mix of psychiatrists, social workers, community psychiatric nurses, psychologists and therapists. They provide assessment, treatment and care outside hospitals or within hospital schools for children and young people with severe mental health problems. | |
| Care Coordination | Is the term used to describe effective, person-centred assessments of need and care planning arrangements in mental health services. | |
| Care Management | This term, introduced in the NHS and Community Care Act 1990, refers to the management of the care of anyone in receipt of a care plan. | |
| Care Order | A court order, provided under Paragraph VI of the Children Act 1989, that directs that a child be placed in the care of a specific Local Authority, and gives shared parental responsibility to that council. It is granted when a court decides that a child is suffering or might suffer significant physical or emotional harm or educational problems as a result of receiving poor care at home. A Care Order stops when an Adoption Order is made or lapses when a young person reaches 18. | |
| Care Package | A collective name for the service(s) arranged for someone, following assessment. For example, this could be simply one service such as help with preparing meals, or a combination of services. | |
| Care Pathway | The co-ordination of a patient’s care through the healthcare system. | |
| Care Plan | A plan to provide care services to an individual. The plan should follow an assessment at a case conference or review and involve service users, carers and their families, as well as all the relevant professionals. | |
| Care Trust | Care Trusts are local bodies responsible for delivering primary healthcare, community health services and social care for older people. Ministers believe Care Trusts will firmly integrate joint-working between health and social care. The first trusts – developed from existing Primary Care Trusts – were established in April 2002. | |
| Carer | A person who provides care on a regular basis who is not employed to do so by an agency or an organisation. A carer is usually a friend or relative looking after someone who is frail or ill at home. | |
| Caring for People Forum | Aimed at protecting those who are vulnerable in society and to improve safety, welfare and health (Bournemouth Partnership). | |
| Case Closed (closed case) | A current case that appears on Social Services Department’s records but for which there is no intention for further action unless a referral is made. | |
| Case Current (current case) | A case that requires action to be taken by Social Services. The initiative required can range from intensive casework and the provision of care to a decision and the administrative steps to close the case. | |
| CAT | Cognitive Ability Test | |
| CBD | Common Basic Dataset | |
| CC | County Council | |
| CCCG | Children Causing Concern Group (Bournemouth) | |
| CCT | Compulsory Competitive Tendering | |
| CCTA | City College for the Technology of the Arts | |
| CDC | Curriculum Development Centre | |
| CDL | Career Development Loan | |
| CEC | Catholic Education Commission | |
| CEG | Careers Education and Guidance | |
| Centil Chart | Graph recording a child’s physical development, e.g., height and weight. | |
| CEO | Chief Education Officer | |
| CER | Community Education and Regeneration | |
| CES | Catholic Education Service | |
| CF | Challenge Funding | |
| CFE | College of Further Education | |
| CFF | Common Funding Formula | |
| CFP Forum | Caring for People Forum (Bournemouth) | |
| CHE | College of Higher Education | |
| CHI | Commission for Health Improvement is a national body set up in April 2000 to support and oversee the quality of governance and clinical services; to investigate falling trusts; produce an annual report of the state of the NHS, and publish NHS “star rating” performance system. | |
| Child Protection | As outlined in the Children Act 1989, Child Protection involves adults as much as children; parental responsibility and the appointment of guardians are key issues. Child Protection covers residential and day care, Supervision Orders, children in care and foster homes. | |
| Child Protection Case Conference | This is a formal, inter-agency meeting (with a social worker, health visitor, nursery worker, teacher, GP and police officer, etc). It follows an inquiry under section 47 of the Children Act, to decide whether a child is at continuing risk of significant harm and should be placed on the Child Protection Register. | |
| Child Protection Plan | A detailed inter-agency plan setting out what must be done to protect a child from further harm, to promote the child’s health and development and, if it is in the best interests of the child, to support the family to promote the child’s welfare. The plan is agreed in outline at the first Child Protection Conference and developed by the key worker, core professionals, and where possible, the child and family. | |
| Child Protection Register | A case conference can decide to place a child on the register and make a Child Protection Plan where there is concern for that child’s physical and emotion well-being. This is a confidential list – held by Social and Caring Services – of every child in a Local Authority about whom there is serious concern of abuse or neglect. Registration aims to ensure that children and families are receiving necessary help, but it does not affect a parent’s or guardian’s legal responsibility towards their child. | |
| Child Protection Review Case Conference | A Review Case Conference is held within six months of a child being placed on the Child Protection Register. The meeting should review the work being done with children and their family, and consider any developments, which may have decreased any risk to the children. The Conference can recommend that the child’s name be removed from the register if it is decided that he or she faces no further serious risk. | |
| Child Psychiatrist | Specialist doctor trained to treat mental health problems of children and young people. | |
| Child-held Record | Record of health of child held by health professionals. | |
| Childminders | People paid by parents to care for children in their own home for more than 2 hours a day. Childminders are registered and annually inspected by local authority inspectors under the Children Act 1989. | |
| Children Act 1989 | This act gives every child the right to protection from abuse and exploitation and the right to have inquiries made to safeguard their welfare. Its central tenet it that children are best looked after within their family, with both parents playing a full role and without having to resort to legal proceedings. Children should always be consulted about what will happen to them and their family should, where possible, continue to be part of their lives. The Children Act came into force in England and Wales in 1991. | |
| Children in Public Care | Children who are subject to a Care Order, or who are accommodated by the Local Authority. | |
| Children’s Guardians | An adult – but not a solicitor – appointed by a court to act on behalf of a child or young person in legal proceedings. Formerly known as Guardians ad litem. | |
| Children’s Trust | Children’s Trusts are new organisations that will be piloted from late 2003 to plan, commission and finance children’s services. They will bring together Education, Health and Social and Caring Services under the control of Local Authorities, which will either run them directly or contract them out to public interest companies. These trusts will be modelled loosely on Care Trusts, which provide integrated health and social services for older people and/or those with learning disabilities or mental health problems. | |
| Children-In-Need | Under section 17 of The Children Act 1989, these are children who are disabled, or because of their vulnerability (due to abuse, neglect, domestic violence, homelessness, etc…) are unlikely to reach or maintain a satisfactory level of health and development. The term also covers children whose health and development will be significantly impaired without the provision of support services. | |
| CIF | Common Inspection Framework (for post-16 Education and Training) | |
| CIS | Children’s Information Service - Local CISs provide face-to-face or phone advice on all aspects of childcare. | |
| Clinic Psychologist | Specialist doctor trained in treatment of emotional and behavioural problems of children and young people. | |
| CM | Command Paper | |
| CMHT | The Community Mental Health Team is a group of multi-disciplinary teams made up of a mix of psychiatrists, social workers, community psychiatric nurses, psychologists and therapists. Provide assessment, treatment and care outside hospitals for individuals with severe and enduring mental health problems. | |
| CoA | Certificate of Achievement (MEG/OCR) | |
| Code of Practice for Special Educational Needs (Re | Sets out guidance for schools and LEAs on how to address and manage special educational needs. | |
| Commissioning | The process by which the needs of the local population are identified, priorities set, then appropriate services are purchased and evaluated. | |
| Community Care | The provision of services and support to people who are affected by problems such as ageing, mental health, learning disabilities, or physical or sensory disability, and who need such services to be able to live independently in their own homes, or in homely surroundings in the community (including residential and nursing homes). | |
| Community Children’s Nurse | A nurse trained both in the care of sick and healthy children and care in the community. They usually work at home or in schools with children who have complex medical or nursing needs. They often carry out training with schools, foster carers, link families etc… | |
| Community Dentist | A dentist who provides comprehensive dental care for children who have special needs. | |
| Community Mental Health Team | See CMHT | |
| Community Nurses | Nurses working with patients in the community. | |
| Community Paediatricians | Children’s doctor working in the community. | |
| Community Psychiatric Nurses | Specialist nurses working with children and young people with mental health problems. | |
| Community Strategy | Plans councils must draw up for improving the quality of life for local people. They must be completed with the help of businesses, voluntary groups and citizens. | |
| Community Treatment Orders | Psychiatric patients released into the community who fail to take their medication face compulsory readmission to hospital under proposals unveiled in a government white paper to reform the 1983 Mental Health Act. Patients discharged from hospital would receive a compulsory care and treatment order specifying where they live and a care plan. | |
| Connexions | All-encompassing youth service launched in April 2001 to replace the careers service and other statutory youth services. Aimed at giving 13 to 19 year-olds “the best transition to adulthood.” Involves personal advisers going into schools, colleges and communities to steer young people towards goals and guide them to relevant services. | |
| Contact | Arrangements made for parents who are not looking after children to have agreed meetings with them. Formerly known as access. | |
| Continuing Care | Healthcare that is provided over a long period of time or for an uncertain period of time. This healthcare can be provided in hospital, or a person can be supported by health services in their own homes, or in residential or nursing homes. Both the NHS and Social Services have responsibilities for meeting the complete set of Health and Social care needs they have identified. | |
| CONVOY | Countrywide Consultation Database | |
| COOS | Children-out-of-School | |
| CoP | Code of Practice | |
| Core Funding | The money required for operational, management and day-to-day costs of a charity. | |
| Corporate Governance | A framework through which organisations are accountable for standards in conduction corporate business, including meeting statutory financial duties. | |
| Corporate Governance Inspection | A ‘whole council’ inspection that aims to tackle problems at the political and managerial centre of a council. The majority of local government Best Value inspections focus on groups of services. | |
| COSHH | Control of Substances Hazardous to Health | |
| COVE | Centre(s) of Vocational Excellence | |
| CPA | Comprehensive Performance Assessment | |
| CPC | Child Protection Committee | |
| CPD | Continual Professional Development | |
| CPG | Core Project Group | |
| CPS | Common Pay Spine (for teachers) | |
| CPU | The Child Protection Unit is a police unit that provides 24 hour service aimed at protecting life and preventing crime and has responsibility for investigating crimes against children under the age of 16, particularly those within the family. They can undertake the emergency protection of abused or neglected children and can use the powers of entry and removal where necessary. | |
| CQSW | Certificate of Qualification in Social Work | |
| CRAC | Children’s Rights and Changes | |
| CRB | Criminal Records Bureau | |
| CRE | Commission for Racial Equality | |
| CSF | Children, Schools and Families | |
| CSIE | Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education | |
| CSP | Children’s Service Plan | |
| CSP | Critical Skills Programme | |
| CSR | Continuous Student Record | |
| CSS | Children Support Services | |
| CST | Curriculum Support Teachers | |
| CTC | City Technology College | |
| CUREE | Centre for the Use of Research and Evidence in Education | |
| Curfew Order | A Youth Court can impose a curfew order on a young person, requiring him or her to remain at-home during certain hours. | |
| CVS | Council for Voluntary Service is a local umbrella body for voluntary organisations, charities and campaign groups in a particular area. | |
| CWD | Children with Disabilities | |
| CYPSP | Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership were formed in 2001 following guidance from the Government, and is responsible for producing a strategic plan setting out a local preventative strategy for vulnerable children. Its members are drawn from all the agencies that provide local services for children. | |
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| DAAT | Drug and Alcohol Action Team is a local multi-agency partnership that operated the government’s drugs strategy at a local level. Usually includes Police, Social Services, Health and voluntary sector groups. | |
| DAT | Drug Action Team | |
| DATA | Design and Technology Association | |
| Day Care (or day services) | Daytime care provided in a centre away from a service user’s home, covering a wide range of services from social and educational activities to training, therapy and personal care. | |
| DBFO | Design Build Finance Operate | |
| DCD | Developmental Coordination Disorder | |
| DCMASG | Disabled Children’s Multi-Agency Steering Group (Bournemouth) | |
| DCTC Forum | Developing Communities and Tackling Crime Forum (Bournemouth) | |
| DDA | Disability Discrimination Act (1995) this provides minimum standards so that public buildings and private companies, providing a public service, make their service available to disabled people. It also holds legislation to prevent discrimination against job candidates based on their disability. | |
| DE | Discretionary Exception | |
| Department for Work and Pensions (Benefits Agency) | This department used to be known as the Department of Social Security. It is a Government organisation that provides financial assistance, such as Income Support or Family Credit, to people in need. | |
| Developing Communities and Tackling Crime Forum | Dorset Police, Fire and Rescue Service and Voluntary organisations working in partnership to develop a safer community (Bournemouth Partnership). | |
| Developmental Assessment | An assessment of the developmental difficulties experienced by a child and the planning of action to ensure these problems are addressed. | |
| DF | Devolved Funding | |
| DfES | Department for Education and Skills | |
| DFF | Devolved Formula Funding | |
| DFS | Devolved Funding Scheme | |
| DHA | District Health Authority | |
| DHN | The Democratic Health Network | |
| DipSW | Diploma in Social Work | |
| Direct Payments | Money given to individuals to pay for care services on the basis of a community carer needs assessment. | |
| Disability | A person has a disability if he or she has a physical or mental impairment that has substantial and long-term adverse effect on his or her ability to carry out normal day-to-day activities. | |
| Disability Discrimination Act 1995 | Sets minimum standards so that public buildings and private companies providing a public service make their service available to disabled people. Also contains legislation to prevent discrimination against job candidates based on their disability. | |
| Disability Rights Commission | Independent body set up by the government to help secure civil rights for disabled people. Advises the government as well as campaigning to encourage good practice, eliminate discrimination and promote equality. | |
| Disapplication | Removal or lifting of a programme of study, attainment target, assessment, or any other component of the National Curriculum, or any combination of these, including entire subjects or the entire National Curriculum. | |
| DoH | Department of Health | |
| Domiciliary Care | Services provided to people at home, to assist them in living independently within the community, e.g. meals on wheels, community nursing, and home help. | |
| DPA | Data Protection Act | |
| DRTF | Disability Rights Task Force | |
| DSO | Direct Service Organisation | |
| DT | Design and Technology | |
| DTTOs | Drug Testing and Treatment Orders is a scheme introduced in 2000 that requires criminals to undertake drug treatment as an alternative to a prison sentence. | |
| Dual Diagnosis | Cases where someone with a mental illness is subsequently diagnosed with an addition that aggravates their condition, such as cannabis use on top of schizophrenia. Conversely, it may refer to someone whose drug addiction leads to a mental illness, as may happen with the long-term use of amphetamines or cocaine. | |
| Duty Officer | A social worker or occupational therapist who can be contacted by the public during normal office hours. | |
| Dyscalculia | Pupils with dyscalculia have difficulty in acquiring mathematical skills. Pupils may have difficulty understanding simple number concepts, lack an intuitive grasp of numbers and have problems learning number facts and procedures. | |
| Dyslexia | Pupils with dyslexia have a marked and persistent difficulty in learning to read, write and spell, despite progress in other areas. Pupils may have poor reading comprehension, handwriting and punctuation. They may also have difficulties in concentration and organisation and in remembering sequences of words. They may mispronounce common words or reverse letters and sounds in words. | |
| Dyspraxia | Pupils with dyspraxia are affected by an impairment or immaturity of the organisation of movement, often appearing clumsy. Gross and fine motor skills are hard to learn and difficult to retain and generalise. Pupils may have poor balance and co-ordination and may be hesitant in many actions (running, skipping, hopping, holding a pencil, doing jigsaws, etc). Their articulation may also be immature and their language late to develop. They may also have poor awareness of body position and poor social skills | |
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| E2L | English as a Second Language | |
| EAF | Education Action Forums | |
| EAG | Equalities Action Group | |
| EAL | English as an Additional Language | |
| EAZ | Education Achievement Zone | |
| EAZ | Education Action Zones are local clusters of schools working in partnership with the LEA, parents, businesses and others to encourage innovative approaches to tackling disaffection and raising attainment in schools | |
| EBN | Exceptional Basic Need | |
| EBP | Education Business Partnership | |
| ECDL | European Computer Driving Licence | |
| ECM | “Every Child Matters” - Green Paper published in September 2003 outlining the Government’s strategy for achieving the following outcomes for children and young people: Being Healthy; Staying Safe; Enjoying and Achieving; Making a Positive Contribution; Economic Well-Being. | |
| ECYPPC | Education of Children and Young People in Public Care | |
| EDI | Electronic Data Interchange | |
| EDI | Employee Development Interviews | |
| EDP | Education Development Plan sets out the Local Education Authority’s priorities and plans for a specified period. In Bournemouth, from 2005, EDP will be replaced by a Single Education Plan (SEP) which will encompass a number of existing plans, including the EDP and the Behaviour Support Plan. | |
| EDSI | Education Departments’ Superhighways Initiative | |
| EDT | Education Development Target | |
| Education and Lifelong Learning Forum | Aim to deliver the highest possible educational standards in schools and other centres of learning (Bournemouth Partnership). | |
| Education Lead Officer | Every LEA must nominate a lead officer with responsibility for co-ordinating policy and action on child protection across schools and non-school services maintained by the Authority | |
| Education Supervision Order | An order that LEAs, under section 36 of the Children Act 1989, can apply for to put a child of statutory school age, who is not being properly educated under the supervision of the LEA, with the intention of ensuring that he or she receives efficient full-time education suited to his or her age, aptitude, ability and any special educational needs, and that sufficient support, advice and guidance are provided to the parents. | |
| EEC | Early Excellence Centres | |
| EFL | English as a Foreign Language | |
| EFQM | European Framework for Quality Management | |
| e-GIF | e-Government Interoperability Framework | |
| EiC | Excellence in Cities | |
| EIP | Early Intervention Programme | |
| ELG | Early Learning Goals | |
| ELLL Forum | Education and Lifelong Learning Forum (Bournemouth) | |
| ELVIS | Electronic Virtual Information Systems for Schools | |
| EMA | Education Maintenance Allowance | |
| EMAG | Ethnic Minority Achievement Grant | |
| EMAS | Ethnic Minority Achievement Strategy | |
| Emergency Protection Order | A court order granted under Section 44 of the Children Act 1989 on the grounds that a child will suffer significant harm unless they are removed to council accommodation or moved from where they are currently living. | |
| EMIE | Education Management Information Exchange | |
| Empowerment | Enabling people to take responsibility for themselves and helping them to make decisions about their own lives. | |
| EMTAS | Ethnic Minority and Traveller Achievement Service | |
| ENTO | Employers National Training Organisation | |
| EO | Education Officer | |
| EO | Equal Opportunities | |
| EOTAS | Education Other Than At School is a team to provide, monitor and manage the education of pupils who are unable to attend school, for example through: | |
| EP | Educational Psychologists help gather information for teachers and parents when students have academic or behavioural problems. They assist by evaluating students' thinking abilities and assessing individual strengths and weaknesses. Together, the parents, teachers, and educational psychologist formulate plans to help students learn more effectively. | |
| EPF | Earmarked Pupil Funding | |
| EPS | Educational Psychological Service | |
| ERA | Education Reform Act 1988 | |
| ESC | Education Support Centres | |
| ESL | English as a Second Language | |
| ESO | Education Supervision Order | |
| ESOL | English for Speakers of Other Languages | |
| ESS | Education Standard Spending | |
| ESW | Educational Social Worker | |
| EWO | Education Welfare Officer is a person employed by an LEA to help parents and LEAs meet their respective statutory obligations in relation to school attendance. Education Welfare Officers also carry out related functions such as negotiating alternative educational provision for excluded pupils. | |
| EWS | The role of Education Welfare Service is to ensure that children and young persons of school age receive the opportunity for appropriate education in relation to their age and abilities and attend school | |
| Extended Schools | An extended school is one that provides a range of services and activities often beyond the school day to help meet the needs of its pupils, their families and the wider community. | |
| EY | Early Years | |
| EYDCP | Early Years Development and Childcare Plan oversees and promotes early years education and childcare. The partnership is made up of representatives of organisations linked to all the different areas of early years education and childcare | |
| EYDP | Early Years Development Partnership | |
| EYU | Early Years Unit | |
| FAME | Framework for multi-agency working will develop information sharing systems to manage a number of local and national need from youth offending, acute care, elderly and chidren amongst other uses. It is part of the Government’s agenda to modernise public services. | |
| Family Assessment Service | Specialist Family Assessment Workers who provide intensive work with families where there are child protection concerns. Work undertaken with families to assess the child/children's needs and the ability of the parent/s to care for them and protect them from potential dangers and risks. | |
| Family Centre and Satellites | A therapeutic setting where one or both parents attend with their children as part of a family support strategy to help a family under stress stay together. Support is available at the Family Centre and a number of other locations throughout Bournemouth. | |
| Family Placement Team | Social services teams responsible for organising adoption and fostering. | |
| Family Support Workers | Social Services team responsible for preventative working in the family home to promote the well-being of the child/children. Staff provide emotional and practical support to the family and undertake work relating to Child Protection. | |
| FE | Forms of Entry | |
| FE | Further Education | |
| FENTO | Further Education National Training Organisation | |
| FIS | Financial Information Systems | |
| Foundation Stage | Stage of education before Key Stage 1, with its own curriculum and early learning goals, for children aged three to the end of reception year. The foundation stage curriculum can be delivered in a range of nursery education settings by foundation stage practitioners | |
| FPC | Family Proceedings Court | |
| FPS | Family Placement Service | |
| Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need a | A framework that has been developed which provides a systematic way of analysing, understanding and recording what is happening to children and young people within their families and the wider context of the community in which they live. Effective collaborative work between staff from different disciplines and agencies assessing children in need and their families requires a common language to understand the needs of children, shared values about what is in their best interests and a joint commitment to improving outcomes for children. The Framework underpins this approach. | |
| FSM | Free-School Meals | |
| FSP | Foundation Stage Profile | |
| FTE | Full-Time Equivalent | |
| FTET | Full-Time Education and Training | |
| Full Council | A meeting of every Councillor on a Local Authority to vote on council decisions. Has to ratify policy frameworks and decide on budgets. | |
| Funding Authority | The Education Act 1993 provides for the establishment of two funding authorities: in England, the Funding Agency for Schools (FAS), which was established on 1 April 1994; and in Wales, the Schools Funding Council for Wales (SFCW), which the Act empowers the Secretary of State for Wales to set up by Order. No Order has yet been made. | |
| GAAP | Generally Accepted Accounting Principles | |
| GAL | Guardian Ad Litem | |
| GCSE | General Certificate of Secondary Education | |
| General Practitioner | Doctor working in the community. | |
| GF | General Fund (of a Local Education Authority) | |
| GIS | Geographic Information Systems | |
| GM | Grant Maintained | |
| GMC | General Medical Council is a regulatory body that licences doctors to practice medicine in the UK. | |
| GMS | Grant-Maintained School | |
| GNVQ | General National Vocational Qualification | |
| GO | Government Office (for a given city or region) established in 1994 to bring together the regional outposts of various government departments. Responsible for spending government money at the regional level and the coordination of regeneration programmes. | |
| GOSW | Government Office of the South West | |
| GP | General Practitioner | |
| Grants | Sums of money given to a charity, organisation or individual, usually from some kind of grant-making body such as a charitable foundation or government department. A grant is different to a donation in that it is usually applied for along strict criteria drawn up by the grant maker that the applicant must adhere to in order to receive the money. | |
| GRE | Grant-Related Expenditure | |
| Green Paper | A consultation document that sets out the government’s views on a policy area – such as planning or the NHS – and invites discussion. The first step in a policy-making process that usually leads to legislation. | |
| GRTP | Graduate and Registered Teacher Programme | |
| GSB | General Schools Budget | |
| GSCC | The General Social Care Council is the independent regulatory body responsible for overseeing social care training. Its aim is to raise standards of conduct and practice by setting requirements for training, qualifications and professional development, as well as registering social workers and other social care staff. | |
| GTC | General Teaching Council | |
| H&S | Health and Safety | |
| HA | Health Authority Strategic planning of healthcare in an area. Purchaser of health care through NHS Trusts. | |
| HAD | Hyperactivity Disorder | |
| Hague Convention | An international agreement that aims to establish safeguards to protect the best interests of the child and put in place a system of co-operation between countries to prevent the abduction of, sale of, or traffic of children. Ratified by the UK 1 June 03 | |
| HAS | Home School Agreement - School governors have a duty to develop a home-school agreement through consultation with parents and, where possible, pupils. It sets out the responsibilities of parents, pupils and schools and what they can expect of each other. It is not legally binding and cannot be used as part of an admissions procedure or a parent’s refusal to sign as a reason to exclude pupils. It should be linked to other relevant schools policies and procedures, such as Behaviour and Homework Policies. | |
| HAZ | Health Action Zone | |
| HE | Higher Education | |
| HEADLAMP | Head Teachers’ Leadership and Management Programme | |
| Health Action Zone | Partnerships between the NHS, Local Authorities, community groups and the voluntary and business sectors in areas of high deprivation, aimed at tackling health inequalities and poor health. | |
| Health Assessment | An assessment of a child/young person’s health status and needs by a qualified medical or nursing practitioner | |
| Health Care Plan | A plan concerning investigation, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and health promotion. Setting out the work needed to meet a child’s health needs as identified in the Health Assessment. | |
| Health Inequality | The gap in health status, and in access to Health Services, between different social classes and ethnic groups and between populations in different geographical areas. | |
| Health Visitors | Specialist nurses working with parents, young children, families and communities to promote health. Usually based at GP surgery. | |
| HI | Hearing Impaired pupils with a range from those with a mild hearing loss to those who are profoundly deaf. They cover the whole ability range. For educational purposes, pupils are regarded as having a hearing impairment if they require hearing aids, adaptations to their environment and/or particular teaching strategies in order to access the concepts and language of the curriculum. A number of pupils with a hearing impairment also have an additional disability or learning difficulty. Hearing loss may be because of conductive or sensory-neural problems and can be measured on a decibel scale. Four categories are generally used: mild, moderate, severe and profound. Some pupils with a significant loss, communicate through sign instead of, or as well as, speech. | |
| HIMP | Health Improvement and Modernisation Plan is a local plan to improve health and healthcare drawn up by primary health professionals working in conjunction with other agencies, such as Local Authorities and the voluntary sector. | |
| HKD | Hyperkinetic Disorder | |
| HLTA | Higher-Level Teaching Assistant | |
| HMI | Her Majesty’s Inspector of Schools | |
| HNC | Higher National Certificate | |
| HND | Higher National Diploma | |
| Home help | Home helps are people employed by Social Services and paid to care for you in your own home. Social Services may arrange home help for you, for personal care, following an assessment of need. Other people paid to care for you at home are often called Care Assistants; they can be employed independently by you through various organisation and agencies. See also Direct Payments | |
| HRD | Human Resources Development | |
| HRM | Human Resources Management | |
| HTP | Headship Training Plan | |
| Human Rights Act 1998 | Legislates for personal human rights that can be defended in court, including the right to life, the right to liberty, freedom from inhuman treatment and the right to a family. | |
| HV | Health Visitor(s) | |
| I&A | Inclusion and Achievement Business Unit (Bournemouth Education Directorate) | |
| I&DEA | Improvement and Development Agency | |
| IAL | Indicated Admissions Limit | |
| IAP | Individual Action Plan | |
| IB | International Baccalaureate | |
| ICS | Information Classification System (DfES) | |
| ICS | Integrated Children’s System (Dept. of Health) aims to bring together electronic and manual recording systems for the Assessment Framework for Children in Need and the Looked After Children documentation | |
| ICSP | Infant Class Size Plan | |
| ICT | Information and Communication Technology | |
| IEA | Independent External Adjudicator | |
| IEP | The Individual Education Plan is set up for pupils who have Special Educational Needs, detailing objectives, targets, provision and review. | |
| IIE | Investors in Excellence | |
| IIP | Investors in People | |
| ILA | Individual Learning Accounts | |
| ILR | Individual Learner Record | |
| ILS | Integrated Learning Systems | |
| ILT | Information and Learning Technology (FE) | |
| IMS | Information Management Strategy | |
| Inclusion & Achievement Business Unit | Education service supporting performance and inclusion in schools. Key areas of delivery are Special Education Needs, Educational Psychology, Education Welfare, Behaviour Support and Learning Support (Bournemouth Education Directorate). | |
| Independent school | A school neither maintained by a local education authority, nor a grant-maintained school, and which is registered under section 70 of the Education Act 1944. Section 189 of the Education Act 1993 sets out the conditions under which an independent school may be approved by the Secretary of State as being suitable for the admission of children with statements of special educational needs. | |
| Index of Deprivation | An official measure used by the government to target regeneration policies to the most deprived areas. | |
| Individual Behaviour Plan | This refers to a strategic plan that LEAs are required to produce by the DfES which outlines the arrangements that are made for children and young people with behaviour, emotional and social difficulties (BESD) in their area. | |
| INSET | In-Service Education and Training is professional development for teachers, undertaken alongside their usual teaching responsibilities. This sometimes takes place within the school but also can be received from the Local Education Authority Advisory Service or an external provider. | |
| Integrated Working | Joined-up working between agencies, in particular local authorities and health organisations, that leads to the effective integration of services for the benefit of service users and carers. This is often described as collaborative, partnership and joint working. | |
| Integration | Educating children with special educational needs together with children without special educational needs in mainstream schools wherever possible, and ensuring that children with special educational needs engage in the activities of the school together with children who do not have special educational needs | |
| Inter-Agency Communication | Information sharing between agencies – formal and informal, written or oral. | |
| Inter-Agency Working | When more than one agency work together in a planned and purposeful way. | |
| Interim Care Order | This may be made by the court to protect a child while waiting for a final hearing. It gives time to gather more details about the child’s welfare before making a decision whether to grant further Care Orders. | |
| IPAS | Independent ICT Procurement Advice Service | |
| IPS | Independent Parental Supporter | |
| IRT | Identification, Referral and Tracking, now referred to as Information Sharing and Assessment | |
| ISA | Independent Schools Association | |
| ISA | Information Sharing and Assessment | |
| ISB | Individual Schools Budget | |
| ISC | Independent Schools Council | |
| ISCG | Institute for School and College Governors | |
| ISI | Independent Schools Inspectorate | |
| ISP | Integrated Service Plan | |
| ISR | Individual School Range | |
| IT | Information Technology covers a range of microcomputers, both portable and desktop; generic or integrated software packages, such as word processors, spreadsheets, databases and communication programmes; input devices such as keyboards, overlay keyboards, specialised access switches and touch screens; output devices such as monitors, printers and plotters; storage devices such as CD-ROM, and microelectronics controlled devices such as a floor turtle. | |
| ITE | Initial Teacher Education | |
| ITT | Initial Teacher Training | |
| JIP | Joint Investment Plan is jointly agreed between health and social services for specific areas of care. | |
| Joined-Up | Deliberate and coordinated planning and working which take account of different policies and varying agency practices and values. This can refer to thinking or to practice or policy development. | |
| Joint Funding | When organisations such as councils, hospitals and schools work together to solve local problems. | |
| Joint Working | Professionals from more than one agency working directly together on a project, for example, teachers and social work staff offering joint-group work. School-based inter-agency meetings may involve joint planning, which reflects joined-up thinking. | |
| JRS | Judgement Recording Statement | |
| JV | Joint Venture | |
| Key Stages 1,2,3,4 | The periods in each pupil’s education to which the elements of the National Curriculum apply. There are 4 Key Stages, related to the age of the pupils: | |
| Key Worker | This could mean a variety of different personnel, for example, child-care practitioner, social worker. | |
| KIT | Keeping in Touch (with teaching) | |
| KS | Key Stage | |
| KS1, etc. | Key Stage 1, etc. | |
| L | | |
| LA | Local Authority | |
| LAC | Looked-After Children is a term which refers to a child or children who are either in care (subject to a Care Order) or accommodated by a Local Authority. Children become Looked-After if, for example, their birth parents are temporarily unable to care for them, or they have been neglected or abused. Social Services, and voluntary agencies, arrange alternative care arrangements with the children’s birth family or in a foster family or a residential children’s home. | |
| LAC Support Team | A LAC support team oversee and advocates for the education of Looked-After Children. See link for details to Bournemouth LAC Support Team. | |
| LDD | Learning Difficulties and Disabilities is a term describing people who have barriers to learning and who therefore may find activities that involve thinking and understanding difficult. They may need help and support with their everyday lives and education. Some people with a learning disability may also have an additional impairment such as sensory impairment or a physical disability. | |
| LEA | Local Education Authority Council department is responsible for delivering primary and secondary education. England’s 149 LEAs have a duty to improve school performance and tackle failure, delegate funding to schools, ensure excluded children are educated and provide enough school places for local children. | |
| Learning Support Services | A team of specialist teachers who work with schools to identify and support pupils with Specific Learning Difficulties and Language and Communication difficulties. | |
| LEAWARDS | Local Education Authority Award System | |
| LES | Local Education Strategy | |
| LGA | Local Government Association | |
| LGIP | Local Government Improvement Project | |
| LIFE | Learning Is For Everyone | |
| Lifelong Learning Business Unit | Promote social inclusion to those who are not in school through the Youth and Adult Education services. Involved in the development of childcare through the Early Years Childcare and Development Partnership and in cross-cutting initiatives such as Sure Start and Neighbourhood renewal, as well as outdoor, environmental and arts support to schools (Bournemouth Education Directorate). | |
| LIG | Leadership Incentive Grant | |
| LIP | Leadership Incentive Programme | |
| LL | Lifelong Learning Business Unit (Bournemouth Education Directorate) | |
| LLDD | Learners with Learning Difficulties and/or Disabilities, see also SLDD | |
| LLDP | Lifelong Learning Development Plan | |
| LMCE | Local Management in Community Education | |
| LMI | Labour Market Information | |
| LMS | Local Management of Schools is a system by which schools manage their own finances through the Governing Body. | |
| LMSS | Local Management of Special Schools | |
| Local Government Act 1999 | Legislation that introduced Best Value. Placed a duty on councils to continuously improve services and replaced the compulsory competitive tendering (CCT) regime. | |
| Local Government Act 2000 | Legislation that introduced directly elected mayors and cabinet-style government. | |
| LPSA | A Local Public Service Agreement (Local PSA) is a voluntary agreement negotiated between an individual local authority and the Government. The overall aim of Local PSAs is to improve performance in the delivery of local public services by focusing on targeted outcomes with support from government. | |
| LPSH | Leadership Programme for Schools and Head Teachers | |
| LPSH | Leadership Programme for Serving Heads | |
| LSA | Learning Support Assistant staff are employed in a variety of functions in support of teachers and what they do varies between schools. Some support individual pupils with special needs, others support the whole class or groups within the class, especially with literacy and numeracy | |
| LSB | Local Schools Budget | |
| LSC | Learning and Skills Council | |
| LSDA | Learning and Skills Development Agency | |
| LSP | Local Strategic Partnerships is an initiative to ensure cooperation between public agencies, voluntary groups and businesses in the regeneration of deprived neighbourhoods. | |
| LSS | Learning Support Services | |
| M | | |
| M&E | Monitoring and Evaluation | |
| Maintained school | Any county school, grant-maintained school, grant-maintained special school, voluntary school or maintained special school. | |
| MAP | Multi-agency Project | |
| MAT | Most Able and Talented | |
| MAT | Multi-Agency Team | |
| MCI | Management Charter Initiative | |
| MDA | Mid-day Assistant | |
| ME | Mandatory Exceptions | |
| MECSS | Minority Ethnic Curriculum Support Service | |
| Mental Health | As well as acute and chronic conditions, such as schizophrenia and clinical depression, it includes dementia, and other mental health problems of older people, and problems arising from misuse of drugs, alcohol or other substances. | |
| Mental Health Act Commission | This watchdog, consisting of doctors, psychiatrists, social workers and lawyers, is a special health authority, fully independent of mental health service providers. Its main function is to review the operation of the Mental Health Act 1983 in relation to detained patients. | |
| MFL | Modern Foreign Languages | |
| MHRT | Mental Health Review Tribunal is the Mental Health Review Tribunal safeguards the rights of patients detained under the Mental Health Act 1983. The draft Mental Health Bill will reform the Tribunal System if implemented. | |
| MI | Management Information | |
| MIND | National Association for Mental Health | |
| MIS | Management Information System(s) | |
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