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About Children`s Services

Who`s who
  • Corporate Director - Julia Morrison
  • Assistant Director (Children and Families)- Kevin Jones
  • Assistant Director (Schools and Learning) - Caroline Sutton
  • Assistant Director (Strategy and Commissioning)- John Macilwraith

Contacting Children's Services

Children's Services
5 Portland Square 
Carlisle
Cumbria
CA1 1PU

Phone us: 01228 226877
Out of hours: 01228 526690

You can also email general enquiries:

info@cumbria.gov.uk

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Traded Services for Schools and Academies

We offer a wide range of high quality, professional services which offer value for money to schools and academies in Cumbria.
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Raising the Participation Age (RPA)

From September 2013, all young people will be required to stay in learning until the end of the academic year they turn 17 - and from September 2015 until they turn 18.
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Inspection of Children`s Services

Inspection is aimed at professionals and practitioners employed by organisations within Cumbria County Council’s Children’s Trust.

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Could you foster for Cumbria?

Cumbria County Council has launched a drive to recruit new foster carers in Carlisle.

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World Sports Day 2012

World Sports Day 2012

Schools across Cumbria are being urged to take part in a national day of sporting celebration.

Monday 25 June is London 2012 World Sport Day.

The event will give pupils and staff the opportunity to engage in a wide range of Olympic-themed fun from
making copies of national flags to hosting their own opening ceremonies.

Schools are even being offered free branded decorations to help World Sport Day go with a bang. Event packs
are available online at:

www.london2012.com/worldsportdaythis external link will open in a new window

Welcome to Cumbria County Council’s Children’s Services

Children’ Services are responsible for a wide range of services for children, young people, their families and schools in Cumbria including education for all ages, social care, youth support, early help, children’s centres, the youth offending service, special educational needs and children with disabilities. 

There are currently over 112,000 children and young people aged 0-19 in Cumbria.  These children and their families are our key ‘customers’.  All our services are geared towards championing children and young people and improving outcomes for them and their families by ensuring they receive swift and timely access to the services they need. 

Our ambition for children and young people as reflected in our council plan is that –

We want Cumbria to be a great place to be a child and grow up in; a place of opportunity where young people are able to live happy and productive lives; a place where young people will want to live and work in the future.

As a Directorate we have four values that inform everything we do

  • We put the child first
  • We take responsibility
  • We value, respect and take care of ourselves and each other
  • We work best in partnership

Our Directorate consists of three key functional areas

  • Children and Families - This service area includes early intervention and targeted support for children and families; child protection, safeguarding, fostering and adoption services, and services for children looked after.
  • Strategy and Commissioning – This service area encompasses the strategic planning, commissioning, performance, quality assurance, workforce development and youth offending service.  
  • Schools and Learning – This service area includes all services directly connected with meeting statutory duties in ensuring fair admissions, providing support for SEN and permanently excluded pupils and championing educational excellence in all schools through its school improvement function.

You can find out more about each of these areas by following the links to the left.  In addition, there are quick links to Frequency Used Pages and signposting pages for key groups including parent and children and young people.  We hope that you’ll find these pages useful, but if you have any ideas for how we can improve them please contact us.

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