Hackney

Below are information and links for this borough

Children and Young People's pages of the borough website

Key information and statistics about the borough Supplied by government departments and the Office for National Statistics. These include census information, performance indicators and school performance statistics.

NHS organisations that are responsible for providing children's health services based in this area.  

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Key Strengths:

•  Service overall rated as ‘Good’ by Joint Area Review (JAR) inspection
•  Good progress made in improvements to Youth and YOT services
•  Further strengthening of partnerships achieved and significant progress made  towards the implementation of Children’s Trust arrangements
•  Substantial progress achieved towards the implementation of the child concern model and Common Assessment Framework (CAF)
•  Good progress in reducing numbers of young people who are not in education, employment and training
•  Children and young people’s involvement systematically used to challenge existing services and plan for improvements
•  Schools achieved the second highest KS2-KS4 value added scores in the country
o Over 50% of Hackney pupils achieved 5 good GCSEs (a 62% improvement on the 2002 results)
•  A second city academy opened in September 2006
•  Youth Service mobile provision – the ‘Purple Bus’ was nominated for national awards in 2007. 
 

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The borough is currently working with the Government Office on the following areas of Young London Matters

Emotional Health and Wellbeing 
• Enhancing Capacity in Schools to Support Emotional Health and Wellbeing Scoping Studies

Improving the Educational Achievement of Children in Care 
• Training Package for Working with Children in Care
• Out of Borough Support
• Virtual School Head Support
• Overall Support

Improving Service Responses to Mobility 
• A Pan London Approach to Early Intervention, Prevention, Information Sharing and Assessment
• Overall Support

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Pathfinders/Pilots - these are the Pathfinders and Pilots for this area. For more information select them from the drop down menu below.

 - Every Child a Reader

 - Family Intervention Projects

 - Drugs High Focus Areas

 - Key Stage 4 Engagement

 - Pastoral Care in FE Pilot

 - Learning Activity Agreements and Allowances