Children and Young People's Strategic Partnership Board: Presentation
Minutes:
The Board received a presentation from the Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership Board focussing on Changing Lives 2008/09.
The Board was provided with copies of the recently published Changing Lives 2008/09 document.
It was noted that the Children and Young People’s Plan (CYPP) set out how the objectives included within the Changing Lives initiative would be delivered. There was a statutory requirement upon the Council to carry out an Annual Performance Assessment (APA) of the actions included within the Plan.
The APA would form a significant part of the information used to assess performance around children under the Comprehensive Area Assessment (CAA).
The Board was advised that there were five key outcomes that the Plan would be assessed against:
An additional outcome had been included in relation to Vulnerable Children and performance against this would also be measured.
At present an evaluation of the Plan was being carried out and Partners would have a key role to play in this process. The Primary Care Trust (PCT) and other agencies would be asked to contribute to discussion around the delivery of the objectives contained within the Plan.
In terms of planning beyond the future of the current CYPP the Board was advised that consultation would commence in the autumn on the development of a plan for 2009/20. This would take a long term view of the needs of Children in the Borough and incorporate the requirements of the national Children’s Plan.
In response to a query, as to how the views of children and young people would be sought and fed into the Plan, the Board was advised that there were existing mechanisms in place to facilitate this. Schools and parents would also be consulted as part of the process.
It was suggested that the Multi Faith should be used as a forum for consultation with children and young people.
It was noted that the Plan should be cross cutting and take on board issues such as crime prevention and the affect of crime upon children. It was noted that there were also strong links to mental health issues and these should be ‘joined up’ in their approach in order to achieve long term success.
It was suggested that this should be discussed at a future meeting of the Board.
RESOLVED: