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ITEM CH6
CHILDREN’S
SERVICES SCRUTINY COMMITTEE - 27 SEPTEMBER 2005
CHILDREN
AND YOUNG PEOPLE’S PLAN
Report by
the Director for Learning & Culture
Introduction
- On 22 June 2005
the Cabinet approved a draft outline Children & Young People’s Plan
(CYPP) for consultation and further development. At that meeting the
Cabinet Members for Children & Young People gave an undertaking
that the draft would be referred for comment to this Committee before
a revised draft of the CYPP is presented to Cabinet in October for approval
for wider consultation.
- Accompanying this
report are:
- a copy of
the report to the Cabinet in June (download
as .doc file), which sets out the processes involved and the
machinery put in place for consultation and engagement; and
- an updated
version of the draft outline CYPP (download
as .doc file).
Feedback
and Development Work
- Since the report
to Cabinet in June the CYPP Leads Group has met regularly and there
has been good engagement from a wide range of partners, including colleagues
in the directorates, Youth Offending Team, police, district councils
and health services. The district councils have each nominated a senior
lead officer to work with the County Council on the development of the
Plan.
- Five multi-agency
workshops, including voluntary sector partners, have been organised
to work on the different aspects of the Plan:
Make
a Positive Contribution: 14 July 2005
Enjoy and
Achieve: 18 July 2005
Achieve Economic
Well-being: 12 September 2005
Stay Safe: 19
September 2005
Children with
SEN/Disabilities: 4 October 2005
Be Healthy 11
October 2005.
- The Director for
Learning & Culture has held five briefing meetings for Headteachers
and Chairs of Governors to discuss the draft Plan and receive their
feedback. Children and young people and parents and carers are continuing
to feed into the process through district councils, sounding boards
and youth fora - their engagement in the development of the CYPP is
key to its success.
- Refelceting feedback
to date the draft outline CYPP now presented contains a number of amendments
to the version presented to the Cabinet in June, in particular:
- greater
emphasis on the need to increase access to sport, play, leisure, out
of school, community, cultural and arts activities;
- greater
emphasis on the needs of all children, not just those who are vulnerable,
and on strategies to enable young people to make a positive contribution,
rather than just tackling problems when they arise;
- the
outcomes and targets to be achieved have been significantly broadened
so that they reflect a wider range of children’s needs and priorities
from across the different agencies;
- greater
focus on the importance of meeting emotional and wellbeing needs of
children and young people and helping them to "enjoy" as well as achieve;
- inclusion
of proposals for monitoring the impact of the Plan on outcomes for children
and young people through a Children and Young People’s Strategic Board.
- Further changes
will be made to the Plan in the light of the feedback from the Scrutiny
Committee and the five workshops in time to feed back to the Cabinet
on 18 October 2005. Members will note from the timetable at Annex 2
to the attached report that the draft Plan will be brought back to the
Committee in the light of the outcome of the consultation process in
February 2006.
- The draft CYPP
was shared with inspectors as part of the Annual Performance Assessment
of Children’s Services in July 2005. The inspectors highlighted the
draft Plan as an area of good practice.
RECOMMENDATION
- The Scrutiny
Committee is invited to consider the draft outline CYPP and offer any
advice to the Cabinet for its consideration in determining the shape
of the draft for consultation on 18 October 2005.
KEITH
BARTLEY
Director for
Learning & Culture
Background
papers: Nil
Contact
officer: Gillian Tee, Head of Children’s Services Tel: 01865 815125
September 2005
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