Children's Services

Hampshire's Children and Young People's Plan

Introduction

This Children and Young People’s Plan (CYPP) has been agreed by all the partners representing Hampshire’s Children’s Trust - working for, and with, children and young people and their families. It represents a shared commitment to unlocking the potential of every child and young person, to providing the support that enables success in their adult lives and making Hampshire a better place in which to enjoy childhood.   

The Plan sets out the key strategies and priorities for improving outcomes for children, young people and families against all five of the Every Child Matters outcomes. The focus of the Plan is to address inequalities for those facing the greatest risks and barriers and to strengthen support for individual children and young people, their families and communities, where needed.

It does not prescribe in detail what people have to do or how they have to do it, neither does it attempt to list every service, every initiative or every provision. The Plan provides an overarching framework, promoting a shared vision and a number of priorities, aimed at children, young people, parents, carers and communities. The degree to which these priorities are met will be the measure of the Plan’s success.

Children’s Trust partners and other stakeholders all have a part to play in improving the lives of children and young people, by working together and accepting responsibility for specific actions within this plan. Key partners include:

What is in the plan?

There are two sections to this plan, with appendices linking to national and local priorities and joining up the bigger picture.

  1. Vision and priorities – our vision and priorities for all children and young people and how these will support improved outcomes.

  2. Making it happen – outlining the improvement processes required to deliver the vision.

 
  • community and voluntary sector organisations;
  • diocesan authorities, church and faith groups;
  • Hampshire’s armed forces support services;
  • Hampshire Constabulary;
  • Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service;
  • healthcare providers including Hampshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) and South Central Strategic Health Authority;
  • Jobcentre Plus;
  • Learning and Skills Council;
  • local authority services and partnerships from county to parish level;
  • private sector service providers;
  • schools and colleges;
  • Sure Start Children’s Centres and early years settings;
  • Wessex Youth Offending Team and the Hampshire Probation Service.

Central Government is strengthening Children’s Trust arrangements, including an extended duty to co-operate for some partners, and by 2010 we need to ensure that the service improvement plans of every partner in Hampshire’s Children’s Trust inform, and are informed by, this CYPP. Further information on Children’s Trusts can be found online at www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/aims/childrenstrusts.

This plan is about ‘doing with’ rather than ‘doing to’. Its priorities have been shaped by the views, needs and aspirations of children and young people. We will continue to engage children and young people in the planning, delivery and evaluation of services and will work in partnership with parents and carers to ensure that services effectively meet needs.