Vision for Services for Children and Young People in the Bradford District
The Children and Young People's Strategic Partnership consulted widely on a vision for services for children and young people and then agreed the following pledge:
Every child and young person will enjoy living in the district and will achieve as much as they can as they grow up and develop.
We will work together to make the district a place where children and young people from all communities and backgrounds feel safe and have opportunities to improve and enjoy their lives.
We will do this by:
- Ensuring that the services all children and young people use - schools, healthcare and leisure, are the best possible we can provide
- Providing fun, play and leisure activities to enrich the experience of children and young people based on what they tell us they enjoy
- Working more closely together, so that children and young people can quickly get support, tailored to their needs and close to their home or school
- Ensuring that everyone who works with children and young people understands how to keep them safe and when to share information if they have concerns
- Focusing our efforts on acting early to prevent small difficulties becoming much bigger
- Listening to children, young people and their families and using their views to improve the services we provide for them
- Striving to make all services provided in the Bradford district excellent.
Shared Principles
Children's Trust arrangements bring together different agencies each with a distinctive culture and ethos. The partners must agree to deliver services in accordance with commonly agreed principles, based on equity and putting children and young people first.
The Children and Young People's Strategic Partnership agreed the following principles in order to achieve their stated vision:
Our Services for children and young people will:
- Be centred on the needs of children and young people
- Listen and respond to children, young people and their families
- Empower children and young people to contribute to shaping services
- Focus on priorities
- Focus on prevention
- Be equitable, inclusive and non discriminatory
- Work together in an integrated way
- Listen to staff and front line managers
- Provide clear leadership and direction
- Share and learn from good practice and lessons learnt
The Children and Young People's Strategic Partnership also agreed overarching Cross Cutting Themes: There are four:
- Support for vulnerable groups
- Safer and stronger communities
- Reduce social exclusion by improving ECM outcomes for all children 0-5
- Improve ECM Outcomes for primary age children which will be reflected in improved school performance
The Children and Young People's Plan is also consistent with the overarching theme identified for the Local Area Agreement - Connecting to Economic Prosperity.
The Vision Statement, Shared Principles and Cross Cutting Themes are reflected in the plans and strategies of all the agencies which make up the Children and Young People's Strategic Partnership and in those of all other partners who contribute to delivery of the Children and Young People's Plan.
