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    • A & E

      • Accident and Emergency

    • ABC

      • Anti-social behaviour contract.

    • Accommodated

      • Children who are looked after by their Local Authority

    • ACPC

      • Area Child Protection Committee. The ACPC is an inter-agency forum bringing together representatives of the agencies responsible for helping to protect children fron abuse and neglect.

    • Admissions Appeal Panel

      • An admissions appeal panel is a group of people who decide whether a child that has already been turned down for a school by the admissions authority should be given a place. There are strict rules about who should be on the panel-no member of the panel can be a governor of the school or a local councillor.

    • AEN

      • Additional Educational Needs

    • APA

      • Annual Performance Assessment. A local authority Annual Performance Asseesment (APA) takes place each year.

      It makes judgements about: The council's children's services and the specific contributions they make to improving outcomes for children and young people. The council's capacity to further improve these services.

      A letter from OFSTED notes strengths, areas for improvement and any progres evident in the previous 12 months. It indicates where the work of the council has made a measurable difference, where such work has had little impact or where further development is required.

    • APO

      • Action Plan Order.

    • ASBO

      • Anti Social Behaviour Order.

    • Assessment Framework for Children (DoH 2000)

      • A systematic multi-agency approach to analyse and record what is happening to children and young people within their families and in the wider context of the community in which they live.