Roadmap to Excellence: Children, Families and Education Plan for Improvement 2023-26

The Roadmap to Excellence aims to ensure that the needs of children and families are met effectively, with a focus on collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.

The Roadmap to Excellence outlines Lambeth’s strategic plan to enhance services for children and families. The plan seeks to achieve better outcomes for all children and young people in the borough through delivering high-quality services that are timely and responsive to the needs of children and families.

Vision and Values

Our vision for children, families and education is: Lambeth aspires to be the best borough for children to grow, develop, and thrive.

Core Values

  • Collaboration: Emphasizing partnerships with families and agencies.
  • Innovation: Encouraging creative solutions to challenges.
  • Respect: Valuing the voices and experiences of children and families.

Key Priorities

  • Excellent help and protection
  • Excellent response to vulnerable groups, tackling CSE, missing and gangs
  • Excellent experiences and progress for children in care
  • Excellent experiences and progress for care leavers
  • Achieving permanency for our children
  • Leadership and management
  • Excellent and inclusive education and learning from birth to adulthood

Engagement and Participation

The plan emphasises the importance of listening to children and families, ensuring their voices are integral to service delivery and decision-making processes.

How we are held to account for the delivery of the plan

A robust structure is included in the document to show how we are held to account for the delivery of the plan.

The plan includes how we assess the effectiveness of services through: 

  • Data analysis and feedback from families
  • Regular audits and reviews to ensure continuous improvement

Roadmap to excellence (PDF,1.4MB)

Roadmap to excellence (child friendly) (PDF, 3.1MB)

For more information, please contact: Laura Feeney, Assistant Director Transformation, Improvement and Performance LFeeney@Lambeth.gov.uk.