Children and Young People's Plan
DH and DCSF offer JSNA Children's coordinator role – Spring 2010
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; and 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 in improving children's outcomes. By 2010 all Children’s Trust partnerships 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. The Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 will help achieve these aims by:
- extending the number of statutory 'relevant partners' in the Children’s Trust partnership to include maintained schools, non-maintained special schools, Academies, sixth-form and further education colleges, Jobcentre Plus and Pupil Referral Units(PRUs)/Short Stay Schools (PRUs to be included through separate regulations) – from January 2010
- placing the Children’s Trust Board on a statutory footing – from April 2010
- making the CYPP a joint strategy which sets out how the Children's Trust partners will cooperate to improve children’s well-being in the local area – every local area to have a joint CYPP from April 2011
- transferring responsibility for preparing, publishing and revising the CYPP from the local authority (LA) alone to the Children’s Trust Board (individual Children's Trust partners are responsible for delivering the CYPP within the delivery of their normal functions)
- giving the Board responsibility for monitoring the extent to which each Children's Trust partner acts in accordance with their commitments in CYPP, and for producing and publishing an annual report on the results.
Consultation on revised statutory guidance for Children’s Trusts, and on new regulations covering the new CYPP will run until 29 January. The new guidance is expected to be published by March 2010.
To contribute, please go to the 'DCSF e-consultations' page.
EMIE is collecting LA Children and Young People’s Plans. They are adding updates as they become available.
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