Children and Young People's Plan
The Children and Young People’s Plan enables our partners and
us to agree clear targets and priorities for all services and
to identify the actions and activities needed to achieve them.
Since 2003, the Government has embarked on a comprehensive
reform of the way in which children’s services are delivered.
This reform marks a significant change to the ways in which
we and our partner agencies deliver services for children and
young people. This new agenda for change is about building upon
what is already working well and setting up new ways of working
together so that all children and young people receive the very
best.
Every Child Matters requires all agencies to work together at
all levels from strategic planning to front-line delivery and
includes:
- Integrated local front-line delivery of services
- Common processes to underpin joint working like the common
assessment framework, the role of the lead professional and
information sharing
- Integrated strategies and planning
- Leading to joint commissioning of services and shared
governance arrangements
The ‘Outcomes Framework’ has been developed by the Department
for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) to help focus everyone on
five main outcomes for children and young people:
- Be Healthy: to enjoy good physical and mental
health and to live a healthy lifestyle;
- Stay Safe: to be protected from harm and
neglect, to feel safe in their communities and grow up able to look
after themselves
- Enjoy and Achieve: to get the most out of
life, achieve at school and develop a range of broad skills that
help prepare them for adulthood
- Make a Positive Contribution: to be recognised
for the active and useful part they play in the community and in
society as a whole and to be involved in decision making
- Achieve Economic Well-Being: to achieve their
full potential, to be able to access training and jobs and to have
a decent standard of living.
The priorities identified in this plan all relate to these five
outcomes.
Children and
Young People’s Plan (327 Kb pdf file)
Children and Young People's Plan Refresh
In May 2008 we were half way through our Children and Young
People's Plan and decided to refresh it. The key
priorities did not change, but some of the success criteria were
updated as we had already achieved them or, for instance, the
government redefined some targets based new schemes that
have come along such as Buildings Schools for the Future. In
addition, we added a new section called “change for
children”.
The refresh is not a complete rewrite and should be used
alongside the existing copy of the Children and Young People's
Plan.
Children
and Young People's Plan Refresh May 2008 (141kb pdf file)