Children & Young People's Plan

Planning for Children & Young People 2012-13

Children & Young People's Plan 2009-12

The plan identifies what organisations are individually, or collectively, going to do to deliver services to improve outcomes for the most vulnerable, and how they are going to do it.

The focus is on areas most in need of improvement, where better joint working will really make a difference for children and young people. This is a three year Plan for 2009-12 and it was launched in April 2009 and approved by the former Gloucestershire Children and Young People's Strategic Partnership, Gloucestershire County Council's Cabinet and its Full Council. The 2009-12 Plan replaces Gloucestershire's first Children and Young People's Plan (CYPP), which ran from 2006-09. Every year, the Plan is reviewed to make sure it remains current and meets any new challenges.

The 2009-12 Plan and its 2011-12 refresh were developed by the partnership now known as Gloucestershire Children's Partnership (formerly CYPSP). This is a partnership of the key organisations providing services for children and young people across the County Gloucestershire Children's Partnership (GCP)

The focus is on areas most in need of improvement, where better joint working will really make a difference for children and young people. This is a three year Plan for 2009-12 and it was launched in April 2009 and approved by the former Gloucestershire Children and Young People's Strategic Partnership, Gloucestershire County Council's Cabinet and its Full Council. The 2009-12 Plan replaces Gloucestershire's first Children and Young People's Plan (CYPP), which ran from 2006-09. Every year, the Plan is reviewed to make sure it remains current and meets any new challenges.

The 2009-12 Plan and its 2011-12 refresh were developed by the partnership now known as Gloucestershire Children's Partnership (formerly CYPSP). This is a partnership of the key organisations providing services for children and young people across the County Gloucestershire Children's Partnership (GCP)

The Plan's strategic objectives:

• To intervene at the right time to prevent problems from developing
• To deliver timely interventions for the most vulnerable CYP to prevent problems getting worse

The current and emerging budget position of all partners means that there are fewer resources with which to deliver the current CYPP. These resources will thus be focused, in line with national priorities, on those children and young people who most need support. The priorities, as agreed at the outset of the Plan in 2009, remain the four groups of the most vulnerable children and young people:

• Children and Young People who need protecting
• Children and Young People with disabilities
• Children and Young People in care and those leaving care
• Children and Young People in poverty

Partnership activity, expressed on four 'Action Cards', will provide targeted support for children and young people in these priority groups. The key underlying elements that support the delivery of all these priorities are detailed in a separate Enabler Action Card. Thematic activity, some of which was previously expressed on separate cards, is now directly linked to those groups of the most vulnerable CYP. The focus of our targeted support will be on keeping children and young people healthy and safe, making sure that they are ready and able to learn and addressing the barriers caused by ethnicity  or by having English as a second or additional language. These themes provide the shape for the actions identified for the priority groups and offer the opportunity to impact on these fundamental strands in children and young people's lives.

Support and improvement activity in the plan will be provided through more integrated and local intervention to fit response to need, for example through the Localities programme. Locality commissioning and decommissioning will be informed by local needs analysis and feedback from children and young people. Families will have more opportunity to 'have a say' in the support they receive and to purchase additional services should they choose, through for example, personalised budgets.

The shape of the Plan 2011-12                                               

• Part One sets out our vision, strategic objectives and priorities over the next three years. Although these stay the same, Part One has been refreshed to reflect current changes and provide accurate factual information.

• Part Two contains the yearly Priority Action Cards. As mentioned above, this year, there are four priority cards, one for each of the above groups. These cards set out the action that we will take over the next year and they are supported by more detailed plans within the relevant organisations. 

You can now download Part One - Strategic Overview of the CYPP 2009-12 and its 2011-12 Annual Refresh as well as Part Two of this year's Plan (the four new Priority Action Cards and the Enabler Card) from the Downloads section at the bottom of this page. An Equality Impact Assessment on the CYPP 2011-12 has been completed and endorsed by the Gloucestershire Children's Partnership and this can also be found in the Downloads section.

A useful web link to the previous CYPP and to the consultation that underpinned the shaping of the CYPP 2009-12 can be found here: CYPP supporting documents and additional information including consultation

Children and young people's version of the Plan - poster now online

The first young people's version of the 2009-12 Plan was launched in 2009, produced by a group of young people from the Action for Children Participation Project. Our priorities for 2011-12 are more targeted, so a group of young carers aged between 14 and 17 took the lead in putting together an updated version for their peers. It's a simple poster which clearly shows our priorities for the next year, and what they mean for children and young people. Although aiming at all ages, the group recognises that it's most likely to be read and understood by those of secondary school age. The poster's 'at a glance', post-it note style means it's also a useful reference for staff working in children's services across the county. The poster will be distributed to groups across the county including residential centres, schools and libraries. Please display it where you can - it prints well in black and white as well as colour.
To download and print - go to the Downloads section below and select 'Children and Young People's Poster'. 

More information...

For more information on the Children and Young People's Plan contact the County Council's Strategic Planning Team on 01452 426430.

CYPP supporting documents and additional information including consultation