• 2020 Children and Young People's Workforce Strategy
• Delivering services
• Working with mothers, fathers, carers and families
• Integrated working
• Participation of children and young people
• Managers and leaders
  • Lead professional
  • Championing Children - Skills and knowledge for managers of integrated services
  • Joint planning and commissioning
    • About the joint planning and commissioning process
    • Joint planning and commissioning: effective practice case studies
    • Joint planning and commissioning: research
    • Children and Young People's Plan
    • Joint funding arrangements
    • Examples of local commissioning and market development
    • Commissioning Support Programme for Children's Trusts
    • Learning From Experience: Schools commissioning by local authorities
    • Commercial and procurement skills
• Finance and funding
• The third sector
• Improving quality
• Strategy and governance

• RSS web feeds
• About RSS Feeds
• Recent updates feed
• News feed
• Resources & practice feed
• Share
  • Digg
  • Del.icio.us
  • Reddit
  • Facebook
  • StumbleUpon
• Print
• Email
• Save
• Feedback

Coming soon...

Related content

• Annual review of the Children and Young People's Plan: Supplementary guidance 2007
• Children Act 2004: Guidance on the 'duty to cooperate'
• Children in care
• Children's services inspection
• Children's trusts
• Directors and lead members of children's services
• Early Support: Services for disabled children in early years
• Integrated strategy
• Joint funding arrangements
• Joint planning and commissioning

Children and Young People's Plan

The Children's Plan: Building brighter futures sets out a compelling challenge - to make England the best place in the world for children and young people to grow up. This means world-class health outcomes, services of the highest quality, minimising inequalities, and tackling poverty. The Children and Young People's Plan (CYPP) is a powerful force in helping realise these ambitions. It:

• drives better local integration of children's services
• helps strengthen local partnership arrangements
• describes what improvements will be achieved in the local area, and when these improvements will be delivered.

Local areas now need to build on their experience of developing CYPPs and bring a step-change to improving children's outcomes. By 2010 all areas are expected to have consistent and high quality arrangements in place for prevention, early identification and early intervention in order to narrow gaps and improve outcomes for all.

New non-statutory CYPP guidance for LAs has been published to help achieve these aims. The new guidance replaces previous guidance on the Children and Young People's Plan issued in 2005 and 2007. It brings together the 2005 and 2007 CYPP regulations in one place, reflects the new performance management arrangements including Local Area Agreements, and sets out the proposed legislative changes for 2011.

The recent consultation on proposed legislative changes to Children's Trusts indicated strong support for improving the consistency and impact of CYPPs. Subject to Parliament this will mean putting the Children's Trust Board on a statutory footing, extending the ownership of CYPPs to all statutory partners and placing the duty to produce the CYPP on the Children's Trust Board. It is expected that all areas will need to develop new CYPPs for 2011.

Documents

Guidance on the Children and Young People's Plan (updated January 2009)
 

Research

Strategic Planning in Local Authorities (Ofsted, 2006)

Analysis of Children and Young People's Plans (National Foundation for Educational Research, 2006)

---

Associated documents

---

Download the contents of this page: as a Word Document

Last updated on 10/04/2009