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Looked after children: consultation on the draft guidance

The Department of Health asked the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) to produce joint guidance on improving the physical and emotional health and wellbeing of looked-after children and young people. The scope is available on the NICE website.

Registered stakeholders for this guidance are invited to comment on the provisional recommendations via this website.

Individuals and organisations not registered as stakeholders are not able to comment. We recommend that you register as a stakeholder or you contact the registered stakeholder organisation that most closely represents your interests and pass your comments to them.

Note that the provisional recommendations presented here do not constitute NICE and SCIE’s formal guidance on this topic. The recommendations are provisional and may change after consultation.

Consultation dates: 15 February – 14 April 2010

Please provide all responses to this draft guidance using the Stakeholder Comments Form (ensuring all relevant fields are completed, including your organisation's name) and forwarding this by 5pm on Wednesday 14 April at the very latest to lookedafterchildren@nice.org.uk

Consultation documents:

The draft guidance describes the evidence and views that have been considered, and sets out the provisional recommendations that have been developed.

Supporting evidence:

The evidence used by the Programme Development Group (PDG) in developing the provisional recommendations is listed at the bottom of this page. Please see appendix C (‘The evidence’) of the draft guidance for further details.

Points to consider in the consultation:

  •  Points or areas that are not covered, but which appear to fall within the scope of the guidance.
  • Potential inconsistencies or any disagreement with the Programme Development Group’s interpretation of the evidence and its applicability.
  • The practical value of the provisional recommendations.
  • Issues of presentation and style, including how the provisional recommendations have been grouped and ordered. Currently, they are grouped under themes – would they be better grouped by type of organisation/ practitioner?
  • Whether the right organisations and individuals have been identified under ‘Who should take action?’ for each recommendation.
  • Do you think this guidance could be changed to better promote equality of opportunity relating to age, disability, gender, gender identity, ethnicity, religion and belief, sexual orientation or socio-economic status?

How to submit your comments:

Please provide all responses to this draft guidance using the Stakeholder Comments Form (ensuring all relevant fields are completed, including your organisation's name) and forwarding this by 5pm on Wednesday 14 April at the very latest to lookedafterchildren@nice.org.uk

The Institute is unable to accept:

  • Comments from non-registered organisations – if you wish your comments to be considered please register via the NICE website
  • Comments from individuals – please contact the registered stakeholder organisation that most closely represents your interests and pass your comments to them - list of registered stakeholder
  • Comments received after the consultation deadline (5pm on 14 April)
  • Comments that are not on the correct proforma
  • More than one response per stakeholder organisation
  • Confidential information or other material that you would not wish to be made public
  • Personal information about yourself or another person from which your or the person’s identity could be ascertained.

What will happen to your comments:

  • All comments (with the exception of personal, individual comments and late comments) will be sent to the project team at the end of the consultation
  • Comments from registered stakeholders will be formally responded to by the project team and posted on the NICE website after the final guidance is published.
  • No action will be taken upon receipt of personal, individual comments and late comments.

PLEASE NOTE: The Institute reserves the right to summarise and edit comments received during consultations, or not to publish them at all, where in the reasonable opinion of the Institute, the comments are voluminous, publication would be unlawful or publication would be otherwise inappropriate.

Supporting evidence:

The following evidence was used by the Programme Development Group (PDG) in developing the provisional recommendations. Please see appendix C (‘The Evidence’) of the draft guidance for further details.

Evidence reviews

Economic analysis

Commissioned research and reports

Expert papers

Reviews E1, E2, E3, E4 and Cost effectiveness review 1 were conducted by the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), University of Sheffield; Review E5 was conducted by the EPPI-Centre, Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London

Report C1 was by Cragg Ross Dawson; Report C2 was by David Leah Associates; Report C3 was by Action for Children

We are grateful to all the experts who very kindly gave up their time to prepare a paper and present to the PDG.