Partnerships
Children's Services Planning
Click on Logo to visit the Children's Services Planning Website
What's it all about ?
Children's Services Planning is a process for bringing people together to plan services for children, across agencies and groups. The aim of is to meet the needs of children and young people who are vulnerable, so that they can reach their full potential and be socially included members of the community, as children and as adults.
Who's involved ?
Children's Services Planning is managed by a partnership called the Southern Area Children and Young People's Committee, which is made up of statutory, voluntary, community and minority ethnic groups. The detailed work is carried out in a number of working groups, which are made up of people across agency and type of organisation who have knowledge and experience of the needs of vulnerable children. Of course, this inlcudes the young people themselves, their parents and carers and communities.
What does this Partnership do?
It works to gain a full picture of:-
- What are the needs of vulnerable children and young people?
- What is being provided to meet these needs at the moment?
- What should change in the future so that these needs are met more successfully?
Detailed planning takes place in a number of multi-agency working groups, which address needs of children and young people such as:-
- Disabled children and young people
- Young carers
- Children in need of protection ( through link with ACPC – see that link)
- Children in need of support in their families
- Children in care ( Looked After)
- Children leaving care and homeless young people
- Children with emotional and behavioural difficulties
- Children in trouble with the law
- Black and Minority Ethnic Children and Young People
- Traveller Children and Young People
What else is on the website?
Signposting to family support services -
CSP puts in place plans to make these changes locally. It also works to influence Government to address the needs of children in an organised way, across Department.
The Children's Services Plan 2005-2008 sets out how the planning will be carried out, and how you can be involved. It is available from: -
Ms Ann Godfrey,
Principal Social Worker, Children's Services Planning,
Tel 028 3741 4616 or by email at: anngo@shssb.n-i.nhs.uk