Issue - meetings

This report asks the Executive to recommend that the City of York Council adopt the Children and Young People’s Plan 2007 – 2010, recently approved by the Board of the Children’s Trust (YorOK).

Members considered a report which recommended the adoption of the Children and Young People’s Plan 2007-2010 recently approved by the Board of the Children’s Trust (YorOK).

Publication of a plan was required under The Children and Young People’s Plan (England) Regulations 2005.  Although York’s current plan covered the period 2005-2008, the authority had decided to update it a year earlier than originally intended.  This was to reflect significant changes within the sector since 2005, to align planning in York more closely with the national cycle, to ensure consistency with the Local Area Agreement and to prepare for Joint Area Review in 2008. 

Production of the plan had been undertaken through the YorOK Board, who had established a Reference Group to ensure that work progressed in a timely, co-ordinated and high quality manner.  The draft plan approved by the Board at their meeting on 17 January was attached as Annex 1 to the report.