To recommend the Children and Young People’s Plan 2019-2024 for approval.

The draft Children and Young People’s Plan 2019 - 2024 (CYPP), attached at Appendix A, includes priorities that will enable continued service improvement to support positive outcomes for all children and young people throughout Herefordshire.  The plan establishes key priorities and outlines how they will be achieved through work undertaken by all participating partner agencies.

Further detailed delivery plans for each priority are being formulated with partners and relevant multi-agency groups that will identify specific actions, governance arrangements and expected timescales for realising the goals set out in the CYP Plan.

That:

(a)        the draft Children and Young People’s Plan 2019-2024 at appendix A be recommended to Council for  approval.

1.          The Children and Young People’s Partnership could continue to work within the 2015-2018 plan or adopt different priorities. This approach is not recommended as it would mean the partnership is working to deliver priorities that are out of date, do not acknowledge achievements made since 2015, may not reflect current views of children and young people in Herefordshire, may not respond to trends highlighted within the latest Joint Strategic Needs Assessment, and does not enable the effective alignment to other relevant strategies across the partnership.

2.          Dispense with a strategic plan for the children and young people of Herefordshire. Children, young people and families expect organisations, agencies and services to work together to provide the effective support that they may need. There has been strong commitment from partners to a strategic plan in previous years, which has helped to drive service improvements within and between organisations. Dispensing with such a plan is likely to have a negative impact on multi-agency accountability and coordination in the future.