Archived decisions

Corporate Improvement Plan 2008-11

Children and Young People's Plan 2009-12

Priority

Key actions

1. Increasing Customer/ Community Focus - What People Want

Schools: Maintain & continue to improve general school attainment

3. Providing opportunities to learn that raise their aspirations, encourage excellence and enable them to achieve beyond their expectations

· Provide high quality early years settings and opportunities for play and learning in the wider community.

· Provide high quality primary schools.

· Provide high quality secondary schools.

· Ensure that children and young people enjoy and achieve in school, attend regularly and are not excluded.

Locality working: Develop locality working

4. Doing all that we can to ensure that they are safe and feel safe

· Work in partnership to safeguard vulnerable children and young people and promote their welfare.

· Early identification and intervention to prevent and address bullying, violence and abuse.

2. Reducing Inequalities

Rural: Tackle inequalities of access to local services in rural areas, particularly for older & younger people, & strengthen sustainability of rural communities

6. Removing barriers to access, participation and achievement and not tolerating discrimination and abuse

· Promote community cohesion, equality and diversity.

Children in Care: Improve placement stability & educational attainment

6. Removing barriers to access, participation and achievement and not tolerating discrimination and abuse

3. Providing opportunities to learn that raise their aspirations, encourage excellence and enable them to achieve beyond their expectations

4. Doing all that we can to ensure that they are safe and feel safe

· Ensure that children and young people enjoy and achieve in school, attend regularly and are not excluded.

· Identify and address any gaps in the curriculum offer available to young people 14-19, raise their attainment and narrow the gap.

Safeguarding: Secure child safeguarding, specifically repeat child protection plans

4. Doing all that we can to ensure that they are safe and feel safe

· Work in partnership to safeguard vulnerable children and young people and promote their welfare.

· Early identification and intervention to prevent and address bullying, violence and abuse.

· Make Hampshire communities safer and more secure for all children and young people.

Vulnerable groups: Narrow the attainment & life chances gap

6. Removing barriers to access, participation and achievement and not tolerating discrimination and abuse

1. Reducing the incidence and impact of poverty on their achievement and life chances

· Develop a joint understanding of, and disseminating data about, the effects of poverty on life chances.

· Narrow the achievement gap between those children and young people living in poverty and their peers.

· Raise aspirations and increase the number of young people from low income homes remaining in education and training.

· Secure sufficient, affordable, childcare to enable parents to return to employment.

· Develop a further 25 children's centres, in addition to the 60 already in place, so that all children under five and their families are served by a children's centre by 2010.

· Provide sufficient affordable housing.

· Support business development and job creation to enhance the prosperity of families in Hampshire.

Children with disabilities: Extend respite & leisure opportunities

5. Providing vocational, leisure and recreational activities that provide opportunities to experience success and build resilience

· Identify and address any gaps in the curriculum offer available to young people 14-19, raise their attainment and narrow the gap.

· Develop extended services in and around schools and create opportunities for all children and young people to make a positive contribution.

Health services: Improve health services for children, specifically CAMHS, teenage conceptions & obesity

2. Securing their physical, emotional and mental health, promoting healthy lifestyles and reducing inequalities

· Reduce teenage conceptions and sexually transmitted infections.

· Reduce substance misuse

· Support parenting skills and promote family health.

· Promote and support emotional well-being for children and young people aged 0-18.

· Improve general health and promote healthy diet, physical activity and emotional literacy.

NEET: Reduce young people not in employment, education or training

5. Providing vocational, leisure and recreational activities that provide opportunities to experience success and build resilience

· Identify and address any gaps in the curriculum offer available to young people 14-19, raise their attainment and narrow the gap.

Permanently excluded from school: Reduce the number & strengthen alternative educational provision

3. Providing opportunities to learn that raise their aspirations, encourage excellence and enable them to achieve beyond their expectations

6. Removing barriers to access, participation and achievement and not tolerating discrimination and abuse

· Promote community cohesion, equality and diversity.

· Promote the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Rights, Respect and Responsibilities initiative in schools.

3. Improving Capacity to Deliver

VCS: Increase engagement & develop capacity in the voluntary & community sector

· Work in partnership to safeguard vulnerable children and young people and promote their welfare.

· Develop extended services in and around schools and create opportunities for all children and young people to make a positive contribution.