Issue - meetings

Background:

This report provided details of the draft Children and Young People’s Plan (CYPP), which set key strategic priorities for partnership action to improve outcomes for Medway’s children and young people and help them achieve their potential. The Plan focused on three key outcomes for children and young people in Medway:

·                    Thriving in Our Community;

·                    A Healthy Start;

·                    Learning Well.

The draft plan refocused the priorities from its 2011 counterpart, coalesced the previous 14 priorities into ten and attached a set of indicators to measure the impact of these priorities. The draft plan was attached at Appendix 1 to the report.

The report provided details of its planned consultation, as set out in section 5 of the report.

The report had been considered by the Health and Wellbeing Board on 19 February 2019 and the Children and Young People Overview and Scrutiny Committee on 7 March 2019. Their comments were set out in sections 6 and 7 of the report respectively.

A Diversity Impact Assessment (DIA) had been undertaken on the draft plan and was set out in Appendix 2 to the report.

Reasons:

The CYPP will provide a high level framework for helping children and young people in Medway to achieve their potential and be used to inform commissioning in the children’s services system.

Consultation on the draft plan will ensure that the voice of children and young people, along with parents/carers and partners is at the centre of the approach.