The County Council provides many different services. In a typical year we…

• support over 8,500 young children aged 0-5 by providing health services, early education, family support, childcare and other family activities through our network of 40 children’s centres based across the county

• work with more than 240 schools to ensure over 77,000 children get the high quality education to which they are entitled

• provide more than 3,000 statements of special educational need and support all children who have some level of special educational needs

• provide more than 1,000 disabled children and young people with short breaks, including more than 65,000 hours of individual support and around 4,300 overnight stays

• safeguard children at risk of harm and support vulnerable families to improve their situation through the efforts of multi agency locality teams, children’s centres and social work teams

• look after children in care, finding them adoptive parents and supporting 450-500 children at any one time in foster and residential care