Children's services

Children's services

• All of Children’s services policies are available on our Children and families website.

Children and Young People's Partnership Plan

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

• The 2015-18 Children & Young People's Partnership Plan (CYPPP), as with the previous plans, has been agreed and will be monitored by the partnership known as the Gloucestershire's Children's Partnership (GCP). This is a partnership of the key organisations providing services for, and which have an impact on, children and young people and families in Gloucestershire. The Plan focuses on areas where better partnership working will really make a difference to the outcomes for our vulnerable children and young people.  The Plan is linked to the strategy of the Health & Wellbeing Board. It will be reviewed each year to meet new challenges.
• Gloucestershire Early Help and Children and Young People’s Partnership Plan: 2015-18.
• What is the Gloucestershire's Children's Partnership?
• Gloucestershire Children’s Social Care procedures manual – including the resource library which contains many useful guides including early help, contacts and referrals, assessment and planning, children in need, complaints, whistleblowing and escalation, family support, safeguarding and more.
• The Gloucestershire Safeguarding Child Protection Procedures provide practice guidance on all aspects of child protection, including safeguarding partnership arrangements, reporting concerns, Gloucestershire safeguarding children partnership, working together to safeguard children and more.
• Additional Guidance from Gloucestershire SCB can also be found on the Gloucestershire Safeguarding Children Board website. On this website you can find GSCP audits, practise reviews, mash operation policy, independent scrutiny function 2024 and the child death review process.
• Please see Using this manual (Gloucestershire Children's Social Care Procedures Manual) for details about the way this manual works. For further details, please contact the Principal Social Worker - Practice Improvement Children & Young People's Service.