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Children's Trust
A Children’s Trust Board has been established for the area of West Cheshire. This is a partnership of organisations from the public, voluntary, community and faith sectors that commission or provide services to children, young people and their families. The Board sets the vision, direction and context for the medium and long-term commissioning plans of the Children's Trust.
The main strategic priorities for 2011-2012 for the Children's Trust are:-
- Prevention, Early Help and Family Support and ensuring Better Health;
- Children in Care and Care Leavers;
- Children and Young People with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND);
- Commissioning Level 4 child protection services jointly; and
- Workforce Development.
The Trust has recently been strengthened and re-launched with a new independent Chairman, Moira Swann.
The Trust Board also has responsibility for developing, publishing and reviewing the Children and Young People's Plan. The Trust Board will be supported by Outcome Change Group Leads whose responsibility will be to ensure that the priorities within the Plan are implemented.
The Children and Young People's Plan sets out the ambitions of the members of the Children's Trust Board for West Cheshire and the steps that they will take to ensure that better outcomes are delivered for all.
In addition, a Children's Trust Executive has been established. The Executive is the engine room of the Children's Trust and manages the systems and processes required to ensure that multi-agency working results in improved outcomes for children at individual, community and borough-wide level.
A key partner body of the Children's Trust Board is the Local Safeguarding Children's Board (LSCB) which provides scrutiny and challenge to the Children's Trust, particularly around safeguarding to protect children who are suffering or likely to suffer significant harm. The relationship between the Trust and the LSCB has been formalised by a joint protocol informed by the latest "Working Together" (2010) guidance.
Key Documents
- 2008-2011 Children and Young People's Plan ( PDF 2.68 mb)
- NEW! Children and Young People's Plan Overview 2011-12 ( PDF 1.91 mb)
- Commissioning Framework (to follow)
- Joint Protocol agreement (to follow)
Meetings
Minutes of meetings can be accessed as follows:
Children's Trust Board
- 27th January 2012
- 25th November 2011
- 30th September 2011
- 29th July 2011 ( PDF 68 kb)
- 4th May 2011 ( PDF 47 kb)
- 17th March 2011 ( PDF 46 kb)
- 6th January 2011 ( PDF 38 kb)
- 21st October 2010 ( PDF 43 kb)
- 15th July 2010 ( PDF 52 kb)
- 11th March 2010 ( PDF 45 kb)
- 14th January 2010 ( PDF 46 kb)
- 8th December 2009 ( PDF 46 kb)
- 7th October 2009 ( PDF 48 kb)
- 9th July 2009 ( PDF 34kb)
- 23rd April 2009 ( PDF 39 kb)
- 24th March 2009 ( PDF 51 kb)
- 26th February 2009 ( PDF 33 kb)
Children's Trust Executive
- 27th January 2012
- 14th December 2011
- 25th November 2011
- 28th October 2011
- 30th September 2011
- 29th July 2011
- 10th June 2011 ( PDF 37 kb)
Safeguarding Improvement Board
- Summary Note: 14th February 2011 ( PDF 25.3 kb)
- Summary Note: 21st January 2011 ( PDF 16.7 kb)
- Summary
Note: 7th December 2010 (
PDF
15.9 kb)
For further details on the working of the Trust Board and Executive, contact Isabel Noonan or Sarah Blaylock on 01244 972373.
Membership: Children's Trust Board
The following are also members of the Children's Trust Executive:-
Moira Swann (Chairman)
Paul Boyce
Moira Chapman
Gerald Meehan
Ann Moore
Pauline Ruth
John Stephens
Julie Webster
Lizzie Wiffen
Audrey Williamson