The consultation paper A Common Approach to Inspecting Services for Children and
Young People, published in November 2005, set out proposals for developing and
implementing an outcome-focused, intelligence-led and proportionate approach to the
inspection of services for children and young people. It included a development and
implementation timetable leading to the introduction of a coherent system of inspection
by the end of 2008. That timetable gave a commitment to publish generic indicators for
self-evaluation and inspection of services for children and young people by Autumn
2006.
This guide fulfilled that commitment…dated publication from Scotland to learn from…