ief executives 'must know' for children’s services | Local Government Association • Your first ten days as a portfolio holder for children's services | Local Government Association • Performance management guide for local authority officers | Local Government Association • Sussex Child Protection and Safeguarding Procedures Manual • Inspecting local authority children’s services: Ofsted and the role of children’s services scrutiny - Centre for Governance and Scrutiny (cfgs.org.uk) 22 References: data guidance and resources This page contains external links – we don’t guarantee or endorse this externally-provided information The following links are useful overviews for data and performance professionals supporting CSC: • Performance management guide for local authority officers | Local Government Association • Inspecting local authority children’s services: Ofsted and the role of children’s services scrutiny - Centre for Governance and Scrutiny (cfgs.org.uk) • Children's social care: dashboard and indicators update - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) • Children’s social care data and digital strategy - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) The following links provide the key statutory guidance documents covering the major national data collections: • https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-children-in-need • https://www.gov.uk/childcare-parenting/data-collection-for-looked-after-children • https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/inspecting-local-authority-childrens-services-from-2018 The following links provide useful sources of data to inform local analysis and visualisation work: • Home | Data to Insight (includes national benchmarking tool incorporating all CSC data publications, plus quarterly data collections for CSC and EH) • Home | LG Inform (local.gov.uk) (includes sector-wide p