The Children and Young People Plan shows how the arrangements established by the South Gloucestershire Children and Young People's Partnership and South Gloucestershire Council are prioritising actions to achieve excellent outcomes for children and young people living and growing up in South Gloucestershire. It steers the work of the Department and all partner agencies whose work affects children and young people, and provides the hook for linked partnership plans. The commitment to joint commissioning across all partners has enabled strong progress on the priorities identified in our first three year plan.
The 2009-2012 Children and Young People plan builds on the 2006-2009 plan. It has been produced with reference to a wide range of data, plans and survey results, and takes forward the national agenda for children and young people locally. The Charter for Children and Young People, the Sustainable Community Strategy and Council Plan, the Local Area Agreement, the feedback from the Joint Area Review inspection, Children's Services Assessment and other inspections and consultation with partners and service users have all been used to inform the writing of the plan.
As part of our commissioning process we have undertaken a comprehensive data audit and needs analysis, and key themes and priorities have been identified. Lead officers for each theme have worked with other experts to develop a more sophisticated understanding of the issues.
Full consultation of the draft plan took place in accordance with the COMPACT agreement. This included an online questionnaire, young people's event, youth summit, South Gloucestershire Viewpoint Panel, the Governor Forum, Headteacher conference and Voluntary sector event, as well as a focus for meetings of the Select Committee.
The 2011-12 implementation plan for the Children and Young People Plan can be downloaded here.
A self evaluation of the Children and Young People Plan 2010-2011 was published in July 2011.
We have written an Interim Child Poverty Strategy that will run until March 2012. This will allow us to write a full three year strategy that will link with the next cycle of the Children and Young People's Plan