Rochdale Borough Children's Trust Board
Who is involved
Membership includes representation at a senior
level from all agencies working with children and young people
across the Borough.
The Lead Groups are key to the effective
working of the Children’s Trust Board. Five Lead Groups report to
the Children’s Trust Board, one for each of the five national
outcomes for children and young people: Staying Safe, Being
Healthy, Enjoying and Achieving, Making a Positive Contribution and
Achieving Economic Well-Being. Each Lead Group is chaired by a
member of the Board and members represent the full range of
partners.
Each group is responsible for monitoring the progress of the
relevant outcomes in the Children and Young People’s Plan and
providing robust information on these to the Children’s Trust
Board.
Aims of the Partnership
The purpose of the Children’s Trust Board is to
bring together all partners with a role in improving outcomes for
children to agree a common strategy on how they will co-operate to
improve children’s well-being and to ensure that partners comply
with the agreed strategy. Delivering the strategy through the
Children and Young People’s Plan remains the responsibility of the
partners, both individually and together.
The statutory functions of the Children’s Trust
Board relate almost exclusively to the Children and Young
People’s Plan. The Board is responsible for developing, publishing
and reviewing the Children and Young People’s Plan and the new
statutory Plan must be published by April 2011. This will set out
how the Children’s Trust Board partners will co-operate to improve
outcomes for children and young people.
Although the responsibility for implementing the Children and
Young People’s Plan remains with the individual partners, the
Children’s Trust Board is responsible for monitoring the extent to
which the partners act in accordance with the Plan and publishing
an annual report which sets this out.
The Board is responsible for providing the strategic
commissioning framework within which partners are able to
commission services using either joint or aligned budgets. It is
not a joint commissioning body.