Children and Young People's Plan
Rochdale Borough Children's Trust Board
Rochdale Borough Children’s Trust Board has agreed a new
Children and Young People’s Plan for 2011-2014. The development,
publication and review of the Children and Young People’s Plan will
be monitored by the Children’s Trust Board.
Our Vision
To enable all children and young people to achieve their full
potential.
Our Purpose
The Children’s Trust Board brings together all agencies working
with children and young people and their families to:
- provide leadership and direction to improve outcomes for
children and young people;
- lead integrated service delivery and effective use of
resources;
- agree, monitor and evaluate a strategic plan to drive forward
the work that partners deliver together;
- hold each other to account for the actions they have
agreed.
Five Lead Groups report to the Children’s Trust Board, one for
each of the key local priorities:
- Narrowing the Gap
- Improving Readiness for School
- Young People’s Lifestyle Choices
- Skills Improvement
- Workforce Development and Integrated Practice
Each Lead Group is chaired by a member of the Board and
membership represents the full range of partners. They are
also responsible for monitoring the progress of the relevant
actions and outcomes in the Children and Young People’s Plan and
reporting on progress to the Children’s Trust Board.
Children and Young People’s Plan 2011-2014
The five key priorities and outcomes in the Children and Young
People’s Plan 2011-2014 are:
1. Narrowing the Gap
The aim for this priority is that resources and support are
effectively targeted to the most vulnerable children, young people
and their families to ensure that their health and wellbeing needs
are met and that they are supported to achieve their full
potential. The Child and Family Poverty Strategy is a key element
to fulfilling this aim.
2. Improving Readiness for School
We need to ensure that children enter school with sufficient
language and communication skills to enable them to access learning
and that their parents engage in supporting their children’s
learning. The aim for this key priority is to ensure that babies
and young children have a healthy start in life.
3. Young People’s Lifestyle Choices
The aim for this key priority is that young people are less
likely to take part in risky behaviour. To support this there needs
to be a varied menu of high quality, easily accessible services on
offer so that all children and young people have an understanding
of health/lifestyle issues and how / where to seek help.
4. Skills Improvement
The Rochdale All Age Skills Strategy aims to raise the skill
levels of our residents by integrating all the work that partners
do in Rochdale; from early years to business support, from
back-to-work activity to housing strategy, schools, colleges and
beyond. The responsibility for achieving this strategy will be a
huge challenge for partners and employers – not all of whom will be
used to thinking of skills as part of their day job.
5. Workforce Development and Integrated
Practice
Essentially this is about how all agencies at all levels work
together and about embedding systems and processes that make
possible integrated working such as sharing information and data
analysis, thus improving outcomes for children, young people and
their families in the borough.
Cross Cutting Themes
Three cross cutting themes are fundamental to this Plan. As such
these are integral to the action plans for each priority and
monitored and reported on regularly.
These are:
- Keeping Children Safe
- Equality and Diversity
- Working with Families
Children
and Young People's Plan 2011-2014 (389kb pdf file)
For further information about the Children's Trust
please contact the Partnership Development Officer on 01706
924334 or email Partnership Development
Officer.