Working in partnership across the council, health, police, businesses, the voluntary sector and with parents and carers and children and young people our key priorities, over the next 5 years are to:
Be healthy
- To ensure that all children and young people enjoy the best possible physical health, lifestyles and environments.
- To ensure that all children and young people enjoy the best possible emotional health and wellbeing and promotion of positive attachments and mental health.
- To reduce health inequalities by targeting health promotion and early identification of needs for parents and children and improving access to co-ordinated support and services for vulnerable communities and groups.
Stay safe
- To promote the welfare of children and young people so that they feel safe.
- Building capacity within universal services to recognise and address wellbeing and early risk indicators.
- To promote multi agency preventative support for those children and young people identified at an early stage of being at risk of social exclusion including homelessness.
- Provide a robust response to the protection of those children and young people identified as at risk of significant harm or neglect or having complex needs.
Enjoy and achieve
- To aim for excellence in all our education provision, in particular to raise standards in Early Years, primary, Key Stage 4 and at Post-16.
- To ensure that all children and young people have encouragement and opportunities to learn, play, enjoy and achieve wherever they are.
- To engage parents in their children’s learning development.
- To continue to develop and implement capital investment strategies to meet growth and to improve the quality of early years settings, school, play and youth facilities.
Make a positive contribution
- To ensure that all children and young people have the opportunity to achieve their aspirations, take increased responsibility for their own futures, be creative and play a full positive part in their communities.
- To extend the range of, and access to, positive activities and opportunities for children and young people.
Achieve economic well-being
- To raise the aspirations and achievements of all children and young people and those of their parents.
- To ensure all children and young people grow up in strong and secure families and vibrant communities, and are able to access high quality services and provision.
- To enhance the curriculum, training and employment opportunities in schools, colleges and work based training providers for young people so that they will develop the knowledge, academic, practical and life skills to enable them to achieve rewarding adult lives.
- To ensure young people and their families receive high quality and impartial information, advice, guidance and support.
The Children and Young People Plan
The Children and Young People Plan is the overarching strategic plan for all those services in South Gloucestershire which affect the lives of children and young people. The plan has been built on excellent partnership working with agencies concerned with health, the police, the voluntary sector, Connexions and The Care Forum.
The 2009-12 plan has been based on data and information from a very thorough Needs Assessment from across partner agencies. Together the main themes arising from the Needs Assessment were identified; Positive Parenting, Narrowing the Gap, Raising Aspirations and Reducing Risky Behaviour. These have informed each of the five outcome areas; Be Healthy, Stay Safe, Enjoy and Achieve, Positive Contribution and Economic Wellbeing and the priorities and actions planned in relation to them.
The 2009-12 three year plan and the Needs Assessment are available to view in the 'Read more' section of this page.