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ONSET (not an acronym) is an assessment tool designed for use in early intervention crime prevention programmes to help target resources for young people who may become involved in offending behaviour. For each young person, ONSET identifies risk factors that need to be reduced and positive factors that can be strengthened. It is currently being piloted in a number of Youth Inclusion and Support Panels.
Outcomes is a familiar term that has been used by children’s practitioners and researchers for many years to refer to the identifiable impact (positive or negative) of interventions, programmes or services - or of the failure to implement appropriate interventions, programmes or services. Outcomes may be client or child-specific, such as the improved learning attainments of a particular child; or they may be more systemic, such as reducing rates of teenage pregnancy across a defined population, for example. However, outcomes also now refer to a crucial element of government policy for children. The Green Paper, Every Child Matters, identified five key outcomes that have been incorporated in the Children Act 2004 (section 10), which places a duty on agencies to co-operate to promote the well-being of children relating to all five outcomes. Every child, whatever their background or circumstances, should have the support they need to: be healthy, stay safe, enjoy and achieve, make a positive contribution to society, achieve economic well-being.
In order to develop a clear understanding of what the five outcomes for children (first set out in the Green Paper, Every Child Matters) mean in practice, the government has developed an Outcomes Framework. The framework breaks down each of the five outcomes into specific meaningful aims, with an indication of how parents, carers and families support those aims; aligns each outcome to the Public Service Agreements relevant to children and young people that have been agreed as part of the Spending Review 2004, and other key indicators of performance and aligns each outcome with the inspection standards and criteria in the draft Framework for the Inspection of Children’s Services.
Usually referred to as a school based outside the administrative county from where a Connexions Service is based.
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