Issue - meetings

This report provides a briefing on the partnership work completed to produce a new Children and Young People’s Plan 2009-12 for the City and seeks the Executive’s endorsement and support of that plan.

RESOLVED: That the new Children and Young People’s Plan for the City be endorsed and supported.

REASON:      To demonstrate the required local authority leadership of this key partnership planning activity.

Members considered a report which provided a briefing on the partnership work carried out to produce a new Children and Young People’s Plan (CYPP) for the City, covering the period 2009-2012. 

Under the 2004 Children Act, all local authorities were required to produce a CYPP, setting out the strategic priorities for all those involved in children and young people’s services.  Responsibility for York’s CYPP rested with the YorOK (Children’s Trust) Board.  The new CYPP, to be formally launched on 1 April 2009, was the end product of a very widespread consultation process.  This had included local stakeholders, parents, and children and young people themselves, as well as the Executive and Shadow Executive Members for Children’s Services, both of whom were also members of the YorkOK Board.

The new CYPP supported progress towards a number of the Council’s corporate priorities, including improving the life chances of the most disadvantaged and disaffected children, young people and families in the City.

Members commented favourably on the lively format of the CYPP, copies of which had been circulated, and thanked Officers for their work in its production.

Having noted the comments of the Shadow Executive on this item, it was

RESOLVED: That the new Children and Young People’s Plan for the City be endorsed and supported. ¹

REASON:      To demonstrate the required local authority leadership of this key partnership planning activity.