Improving governance and resource management in children’s trusts
Self-assessment tool for children’s trusts boards
Children’s trusts are unincorporated associations of the key agencies involved in delivering public services to children and young people in their area. Children’s trusts do not own assets, or employ staff. They are not legally accountable bodies for spending public money, or for achieving public objectives. But they do advise and influence local action. Decisions made, or principles agreed, by children’s trusts can influence the deployment of staff and other resources, including the use of assets.
Children’s trusts need to consider the governance arrangements that will ensure the best use is made of public resources for the benefit of children and young people. The following questions are shaped by our national study Governing Partnerships and the principles set out in the Good governance standard for public services.
We have adapted these principles for children’s trusts, recognising their unincorporated status.
This is a self-assessment tool.