London Innovation & Improvement Alliance (LiiA)

About London Innovation & Improvement Alliance (LiiA)

LiiA is the capital’s Regional Improvement and Innovation Alliance (RIIA) working on behalf of the Association of London Directors of Children's Services (ALDCS). We work with the Department for Education (DfE), the Local Government Association (LGA), and the eight other RIIAs across the country to promote learning, facilitate collaboration, enable governance, leverage investment and share best practice solutions for mutual benefit. In 2019, ALDCS identified workforce, adolescent safeguarding, SEND and resources & commissioning as its priorities for concerted, co-ordinated action, due to the scale of the current challenge for London’s children’s services in these four areas. London boroughs children’s services have a proud record of improving the lives of London’s children and a wealth of experience of working with children from all of London’s diverse communities. There is a collective recognition across the boroughs that improved outcomes, a better experience for children and sustainable services in the future can only be achieved through the systematic collaboration that LIIA embodies, with our unwavering focus on London-wide solutions that positively impact children’s services and the lives of children and young people. The step change London’s children deserve cannot be achieved by individual authorities working alone. Improved outcomes and experience for children and sustainable services in the future can only be achieved through the systematic collaboration that LIIA embodies – along with our unwavering focus on London-wide solutions that positively impact children’s services and the lives of children and young people.