The use of acronyms (or initialism) is one area Local Authorities and other public sectors really excel at, and would no doubt win many awards for the sheer number they come up with. This plague really took hold in the latter half of the twentieth century as before the 1950′s they were rarely used.
Today I was sent a glossary of acronyms that are used in the Children’s Schools and Families Committee. The sheer number is enough to give me a headache. I do hope there won’t be a test.
A&E Accident and Emergency
ASM Additional Support Manager
AWP Area Wide Prospectus
B&A Behaviour and Attendance
BAME Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic
BSF Building Schools for the Future
BSO Business Support Officer
CA Core Assessment
CAF Common Assessment Framework
CAMHS Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
CAPH Cornwall Association of Primary Headteachers
CASH Cornwall Association of Secondary Headteachers
CC Cornwall Council
CiC Children in Care
CiCESS Children in Care Education Support Service
CL Care Leavers
CLG Children’s Leadership Group (multi agency leadership group)
CLL Communication, Language and Literacy
CPD Continual Professional Development
CP Child Protection
CPS Child Protection System
CQC Care Quality Commission
CRB Criminal Records Bureau
CSC Children’s Social Care (now known as Complex and Acute)
CSF Children, Schools and Families
CSWS Community Social Workers/Children’s Social Work Service
CVA Contextual Value Added
CYP Children and young people
DAAT Drug and Alcohol Action Team
DfE Department for Education
DLT Directorate Leadership Team
EAL English as an Additional Language
EDRMS Electronic Document Record Management System also
Education Recording Management System
EHE Elective Home Education
EMS Education Management System
EYQISP Early Years Quality Improvement Support Programme
EWO Education Welfare Officer
FIS Family Information Service
FWi Framework i (data base)
GCSE General Certificate of Secondary Education
GRT Gypsy, Roma Traveller
HOS Head of Service
HR Human Resources
IA Initial Assessment
IAG Information, Advice and Guidance
IB Improvement Board
ICPC Initial Child Protection Conference
ICT Information and Communication Technology
IDP Inclusion Development Programme
IYSS Integrated Youth Support Services
KS Key Stage
LAC Looked After Children – These are children who are looked after by the Local Authority either in foster care, under care orders or in residential facilities.
LAC/CL Looked After Children and Care Leavers
LMS Local Management of Schools
LSCB Local Safeguarding Children’s Board
NCSL National College of School Leadership
NEET Not in Employment, Education or Training
NI National Indicator
NYA National Youth Agency
OFSTED Office of Standards in Education
PASS Pupil Attitudes to Self and School
PDR Performance Development Review
PDS Performance Development System
PEP Personal Education Plan
PSED Personal, Social and Emotional Development
PWP Placement with Parents
QAAG(LSCB) – Quality Assurance and Audit Group – audits and scrutinises mutli-agency practice and collaborative working in ensuring that children and young people within Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly are cared for within secure and stable home and community placements.
QAPM Quality Assurance and Performance Management
S47 Child Protection Enquiry (under s47 of children Act 1989)
SD Strategy Discussion (where a multi-agency decision is made to undertake CP enquiries)
SEF Self Evaluation Form
SEND Special Educational Needs and Disabilities
SIP School Improvement Partner
SMT Senior Management Team
SP Strategic Priority
SRU Single Referral Unit
SSS Short Stay School
SSU Safeguarding Standards Unit
TAC Team Around the Child
TDA Teacher Development Agency
TYS Targeted Youth Support
VCS Voluntary and Community Sector
YOS Youth Offending Service
YPLA Young Peoples Learning Agency
