Board members to receive a verbal update on the Children and Young People’s Partnership.

Judith Harwood, Chair of the Children and Young People’s Partnership provided the Board with an update from the Children and Young People’s Partnership.  It was reported that –

(a)           partnership has established the way of working alongside the commissioning strategies;

(b)          the partnership has 4 priorities;

·           early help;

·           aspiration and learning;

·           integration of education, health and care;

·           safeguarding.

(c)           the new Chair of the Plymouth Safeguarding Children Board has outlined his priorities and looking at how to bring together the two partnerships actively together;

(d)          they had received the progress report against the Children Social Care Improvement Plan and have endorsed the work;

(e)        the partnership have discussed the 4 commissioning;

(f)            the next step to consider the model of partnership as so many themes are cross cutting.  Should the Children and Young People’s Partnership be combined with other boards?

(g)           the next meeting of the partnership part of the meeting would be held as a system design group around the Children and Young People’s Strategy looking at system redesign involving all stakeholders and partners.