Meeting documents
Cabinet
Wednesday, 7th November, 2007
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Bath & North East Somerset Council |
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MEETING DATE: |
7th November 2007 |
AGENDA ITEM NUMBER |
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Annual Review of Children and Young People Plan 2006 - 2009 |
EXECUTIVE FORWARD PLAN REFERENCE: |
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AN OPEN PUBLIC ITEM |
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List of attachments to this report: Appendix 1 - Children and Young People's Plan Review 2007 - 2008 - Introduction Appendix 2 - Children and Young People's Plan Review 2007 - 2008 - Major Development Items Appendix 3 - Children and Young People's Plan Summary |
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1 THE ISSUE
1.1 All local authorities are required to produce an integrated Children and Young People's Plan. On March 30th 2006 the Full Council endorsed the Bath and North East Somerset Children & Young People's Plan 2008 - 2009. This report outlines how the Children & Young People's Plan has been updated in Bath and North East Somerset for 2007/8
2 RECOMMENDATION
The Cabinet agrees that:
2.1 The cabinet endorses the 2007 review of the Children and Young People's Plan and the key development items that have been identified for 2007-8 as part of this review.
3 FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS
3.1 There are no direct financial implications arising from this report. The service developments in the Children & Young People's Plan 2007/8 will be funded from existing budgets across all agencies.
4 COMMUNITY STRATEGY OUTCOMES
Promoting a 'sense of place' so people identify with and take pride in our communities
Celebrating the contributions people from different backgrounds and with different experiences can make, and promoting equality of opportunity
Sharing resources, working together, and finding new ways of doing things
Building communities where people feel safe and secure
Taking responsibility for our environment and natural resources now and over the long term
Improving our local transport
Improving our housing situation for local people
Improving local opportunities for learning and gaining skills
Improving our local economy
Improving our local environment
Improving our local health and social care
5 CORPORATE IMPROVEMENT PRIORITIES
Reducing fear of crime
Improving life chances for disadvantaged teenagers
Improving the environment for learning
Cultural Development
Improving the Quality of Public Transport/Roads/Pavements and easing congestion
Developing a sustainable economy
Improving the public realm
Improving customer satisfaction
6 CPA KEY LINES OF ENQUIRY
Ambition for the community - i.e. What the council, together with its partners, is trying to achieve
Prioritisation of ambitions
Increasing capacity of the council to deliver ambition for the Community to ensure we achieve what we say we will
Managing performance of community ambition to ensure we achieve what we say we will
Creating and developing a better quality of life for the area through
o Sustainable Communities and Transport
o Safer and Stronger Communities
o Healthier Communities
Improving engagement with and a range of services for Older People and Children and Young People
7 THE REPORT
7.1 The Council has responsibilities under the Children Act 1989 to provide services to families and children in need, including those in need of protection and looked after children. These duties are primarily undertaken by Social Services working in partnership with other Council Services (e.g. Education, Housing, and Leisure Services) statutory agencies (e.g. Primary Care Trust, Connexions, Police) and voluntary organisations (e.g. Barnados, The Children's Society, Off the Record).
7.2 The Children Act 2004 includes the requirement for each local authority to draw up a single over-arching plan for all services for children, young people and their families and to review this plan annually.
7.3 Structure & Contents: The Children & Young People's Review includes the following:
Introduction including context, current position, consultation and key documents (attached Appendix 1)
Section 1 - Review of CYPP 2006-9
Section 2 - Major Development Items for 2007-8 (attached Appendix 2)
7.4 The Children and Young People's Plan Review also serves as the Annual Performance Assessment (APA) for Children's Service. Having submitted the Plan Review as our Annual Performance Assessment in June 2007, two Ofsted Inspectors reviewed our plan, visited the Local Authority and interviewed a range of staff. The Ofsted APA judgements are still embargoed but we expect them to reveal good provision across all areas and good capacity to improve further when they are released at the end of November.
7.5 Attention is drawn to page 15 of the Review Introduction which outlines our vision and the 7 Key Developments items identified for particular focus during 2007/8.
7.6 The Children & Young People's Plan Summary will be distributed widely through the Council, Health Trusts and other agencies, schools, voluntary organisations, community and faith groups, unions and Parish/Town Councils as well as being available on the Council website (Appendix 3).
8 RISK MANAGEMENT
8.1 The report author and Lead Cabinet member have fully reviewed the risk assessment related to the issue and recommendations, in compliance with the Council's decision making risk management guidance.
9 RATIONALE
9.1 The Council is required to work with partners to produce an annual review of the Children & Young People's Plan 2006-9.
10 OTHER OPTIONS CONSIDERED
10.1 None. The Council is required to produce an Annual Plan.
11 CONSULTATION
11.1 Staff; Other B&NES Services; Service Users; Local Residents; Community Interest Groups; Youth Council; Stakeholders/Partners; Other Public Sector Bodies; Section 151 Finance Officer; Chief Executive; Monitoring Officer
11.2 The review of the Children, Young People's Plan has been undertaken involving all departments of the Children's Service, our core partners (PCT; Connexions; schools; local colleges, police, voluntary and community sector) and children, young people and their parents and carers.
11.3 In addition a number of young people were consulted specifically for this review (18 members of DAFBY/Democratic Action for B&NES Youth, 23 young people `in need', including 8 disabled young people who were consulted using symbols). Work with DAFBY and young people `in need' highlighted how the priority issues for children and young people are very closed linked. For example, children and young people told us they wanted more things to do and that safer places to hang out and play would go some way to reduce bullying and fear of crime.
12 ISSUES TO CONSIDER IN REACHING THE DECISION
12.1 Social Inclusion; Customer Focus; Sustainability; Human Resources; Property; Young People; Equality (age, race, disability, religion/belief, gender, sexual orientation); Human Rights; Corporate; Health & Safety; Impact on Staff; Other Legal Considerations
13 ADVICE SOUGHT
13.1 The Council's Monitoring Officer (Council Solicitor) and Section 151 Officer (Strategic Director - Support Services) have had the opportunity to input to this report and have cleared it for publication.
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Contact person |
Tony Parker and Liz Price |
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Sponsoring Cabinet Member |
Councillor Chris Watt |
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Background papers |
Bath and North East Somerset Children and Young People's Plan 2006-2009 (30/3/06 Full Council) |
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Please contact the report author if you need to access this report in an alternative format |
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