Key Guidance

The Key Guidance Documents for the Joint Area Review are as follows:
Every Child Matters: Joint Area Reviews of Children´s Services (August 2005) [ 270.7k]
This paper sets out the arrangements to carry out joint area reviews of services for children and young people in a children's services authority area.

Every Child Matters: Framework for the Inspection of Children´s Services [ 154.5k]
The Framework for the inspection of children’s services defines principles to be applied in all relevant inspections of services for children and young people. It sets out how they will report on contributions to improving the five outcomes for children and young people in terms of their: being healthy; staying safe; enjoying and achieving; making a positive contribution; achieving economic well-being. The findings of inspections will be used in joint area reviews.

Every Child Matters: inspection of children´s services; key judgements and illustrative evidence [ 391.7k]
Joint area reviews and annual performance assessments aim to judge the contribution which services make to the well-being of children and young people. This document illustrates how these outcomes will be measured. It also identifies the key judgements about the contributions which services make to those outcomes.

Every Child Matters: Inspection of children´s services: grade descriptors (April 2006) [ 316.8k]

JAR Self-Assessment Guidance [ 110.5k]

Other documents relating to the Joint Area Review
Every Child Matters: A Summary of the Arrangements [ 50.2k]

KPMG Evaluation of the Manageability of JAR and CA [ 240.9k]

Joint Area Review: Frequently Asked Questions by Ofsted [ 26.1k] (one page)