A brighter future for our children and young people

The Children and Young People’s Trust is a thematic group of the Solihull Partnership and takes the lead on the Children and Young People’s elements of the Sustainable Community Strategy and our Local Area Agreement.

The Children and Young People’s Trust brings together service users, volunteers and practitioners, managers and the Leader to plan, commission and deliver services which meet local needs.  The primary focus of the Trust is on preventative and early intervention.

The Children and Young People’s Trust produced the Solihull Children and Young People’s Plan 2007-2010 that sets out our vision that ‘Solihull is a place where all children and young people have an equal chance and achieve their full potential’.

As major stakeholders in the future of Solihull, the needs, concerns and aspirations or our children and young people are fully integrated into our wider vision for Solihull to be healthier, safer, stronger and prosperous.  We have set six priorities for Children and Young People, centred on the five national ‘every child matters’ outcomes for children, which are:

1. Healthier lifestyles.
2. Anti-bullying and personal safety.
3. Things to do and places to go.
4. Raising achievement for all.
5. An equal chance for all including: children who are looked after, children with disabilities, unaccompanied asylum seeking children and young carers.
6. Integrated Services: the Change for Children Programme – ‘Bringing greater integration between all organisations who work with children and young people in a locality’.

See the Children and Young People’s Plan and the Sustainable Community Strategy for fuller details of the needs analysis underpinning these priorities and the specific measures and targets by which we will measure improvement.

The relevant strategies, policies and action plans supporting this outcome and its priorities include:

• Children and Young People’s Plan
• Sustainable Community Strategy
• Children and Young People’s Commissioning Plan
• Safeguarding Children Plan
• Healthy Living Strategy
• The Sexual Health Strategy 2008-2013
• Anti-Bullying Strategy 2008-2011
• Personal Safety Strategy
• Youth Justice Plan
• Things to do, Places to Go Strategy
• Primary and Secondary Education Strategies
• Young Carers Strategy
• Accessibility Strategy (for SEN)
• Information Strategy
• Parenting Support Strategy
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Strategy
• Strategy for Children and Young People with Disabilities
• Change for Children Programme Plan

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