Issue - meetings

The draft BCP Children and Young People’s Plan has been developed by the BCP Children and Young People’s Partnership Board, the successor body to the previous Learning Partnership Board. The difference is to focus on all issues for children, not just education and to a lesser extent, children’s social care.

Having a plan in place is a requirement placed on BCP by the Local Government Reorganisation process so in that sense it is a plan required by Government of us.

The draft Plan sets out the proposed strategic priorities for partnership action to improve outcomes for BCP’s children and young people and to help them achieve their potential. It is consistent with existing BCP policy about improving child outcomes

Central to this is that the Council plays its part in the Partnership to help BCP’s children and young people to be “fulfilled, happy, included, and resilient”.

This report provides a copy of the draft plan at Appendix 1 to the report.

The draft Plan has been subject to public consultation during the month of January 2021.

This Plan, when finalised, will be championed by the multi-agency BCP Children and Young People’s Partnership Board. An action plan will be an integral part of the final document. This will be monitored through the Board.

The Independent Chair of the Children and Young People’s Partnership Board (C&YPPB) presented a report, a copy of which had been circulated to each Member and a copy of which appears as Appendix 'A' to these Minutes in the Minute Book.

The draft BCP Children and Young People’s Plan had been developed by the BCP C&YPPB, the successor body to the previous Learning Partnership Board. The difference was to focus on all issues for children, not just education and to a lesser extent, children’s social care.

Having a plan in place was a requirement placed on BCP by the Local Government Reorganisation process so in that sense it is a plan required by Government of us.

The draft Plan sets out the proposed strategic priorities for partnership action to improve outcomes for BCP’s children and young people and to help them achieve their potential. It was consistent with existing BCP policy about improving child outcomes

Central to this was that the Council played its part in the Partnership to help BCP’s children and young people to be “fulfilled, happy, included, and resilient”.

A copy of the draft plan could be found at Appendix 1 to the report.

The draft Plan had been subject to public consultation during the month of January 2021.

This Plan, when finalised, would be championed by the multi-agency BCP C&YPPB. An action plan would be an integral part of the final document. This would be monitored through the Board.

The Committee discussed the Report and comments were made, including:

• The Committee was generally very positive about the Plan, the content, format, its accessibility, and ambition were all really welcomed
• A Member of the Youth Parliament (MYP) advised that they had considered the Plan and felt it was very accessible to young people however, felt that some of the actions highlighted under the four priorities could be better positioned under other priorities.  The Chair of the C&YPPB requested a meeting with the MYPs to go through the Plan in more detail to gain their insight further. Action. (This meeting is taking place on 2^nd March)
• In response to a query about whether consideration had been given to a longer term plan, say ten year, the Chair of the C&YPPB highlighted that it was felt a three year plan was appropriate at this time and especially in relation to Children and Young People where the context for their lives can change so fast.
• In response to a query about where the four priorities had come from and in particular whether they were relevant from a child or young person’s perspective, the Chair of the C&YPPB advised that they had  consulted with as many children as they could given the current pandemic and capacity issues and those were the four words that had been decided to be most appropriate based on the feedback.
• A Committee Member referred to the different summaries and in particular the reference that ‘it would be targeted  ...  view the full minutes text for item 138