What we do and how we do it

Summary

The CYPP is our plan to improve outcomes for children and young people. It could be seen as the ‘plan of plans’ as it links in to many of the single and multi-agency plans already being used by partners in Devon (see page 24).

The CYPP is for all children and young people and includes everything from
universal services*, such as schools and GPs, to targeted work with children who have particular needs.

All the work we do with children and young people will be judged on:

the five Every Child Matters outcomes:
- Be healthy
- Stay safe
- Enjoy and achieve
- Make a positive contribution
- Achieve economic wellbeing
our collective capacity to
improve.

Agencies supporting children and young people in Devon work together as the Devon Children’s Trust. The Trust is a partnership which includes voluntary, independent and statutory organisations. Any reference to ‘we’ in this plan
means the Children’s Trust partnership. You can find a full list of the partners on page 12.

Each priority in the CYPP will have a delivery plan which will be the responsibility of a multi-agency project board or reference group.

The Children’s Trust Executive will be the performance board and will be responsible for making sure that we achieve the CYPP’s aims.

The CYPP aligns with the Local Area Agreement (LAA). The LAA focuses on narrowing the gap between the lowest attaining children and young people and
the rest of the population, by improving the outcomes for the lowest attaining 20% of children and young people.

We will use key delivery mechanisms to achieve the aims of the CYPP. These mechanisms are:

Children’s centres
Extended Services in and around Schools (ESS)
Integrated Youth Support Service (IYSS).

We have identified the aims of the CYPP through data analysis, external inspections and feedback from children, young people and professionals. The
aims clearly link together, so it is not always useful to look at them separately. However, we can show how some of the priorities fit in with the five Every Child
Matters outcomes.

Outcomes

Be healthy

Promoting physical and emotional wellbeing.
Addressing inequity in providing health services, particularly for:
- children with special needs
- access to the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS).
Addressing the differences in health outcomes across Devon.

Stay safe

Making sure there is appropriate safeguarding for all children.
Sustaining improvements in social care.
Establishing multi-agency thresholds and using them effectively.

Enjoy and achieve

Making sure all children and young people have the opportunity to enjoy and achieve.
Narrowing the gap between the educational outcomes for all children, and those achieved by more vulnerable groups and the lowest attaining 20%.
Raising the bar - stretching educational outcomes for more able children.

Making a positive contribution

Improving the public perception of young people.
Reducing the number of young offenders.

Achieving economic wellbeing

Making sure that there is good access to a range of opportunities for education and training for 14–19 year olds.
Increasing the number of 16–19 year olds in education, employment or training.

Priority projects

All the outcomes relate to each other; some priorities cannot be sensibly managed under just one outcome.

Supporting and working with parents
Parents are the most significant influence in a child’s life, so parenting affects all of our aims. We need to develop a strategy which makes better use of current resources.

Developing more things to do in safe places to be
This includes childcare, play and the range of activities which improve the lives of children and young people.

Improving access and transport
We need to find ways to improve access to education, training, work and recreation.

Reducing bullying
This is a significant concern for children and young people so we are developing
strategies to reduce bullying and the fear of bullying, and to support those who have been bullied.

Improving housing for young people and families
We need to improve conditions and prevent homelessness.

Improving services for children with special needs* and support for parents and
young carers
We need to join up current services to improve outcomes.

Improving life chances for children in care
Children in care do not achieve as well as other children so we want a joined
up strategy across all agencies to give them the best chance in life.

Reducing exclusions from school
We need to reduce permanent exclusions as this is a strong indicator that a child or young person will have poor outcomes in later life.

Enablers

The enablers are the commitments and processes which will help us to achieve
the aims of the CYPP.

The participation of children and young people in the decisions that affect their lives.
A workforce strategy which makes sure that we have the right staff with the right skills.
Integrated working across partners using common tools and ways of working.
Using joint commissioning to make better use of our resources. The CYPP is a high level commissioning document.

The CYPP will be reviewed every year. Some of our aims may be achieved in one year; others may take at least ten years.