MEMORANDUM
From:
Strategic Director, Children and Young People
To:
Strategic Directors, Chief Officers and Heads of Service
CC:
WCBC Chief Executive, Leader, Lead/Deputy Lead Members and Scrutiny CoChairs,
Our Ref:
TDG/JHJ
Date:
22 October 2007
Your Ref:
SUBJECT: Shared Planning for Better Outcomes (Circular 31/2007) Children and
Young People’s Plan (CYPP)
As you may be aware, there is a requirement for all authorities to publish a Children and
Young People’s Plan (CYPP) by September 2008. The intention is that the CYPP will be a
high level, strategic plan which brings together ALL high level priorities for services
encompassing children, young people (CYP) and their families, and which provides clear
signposting to ALL service and operational plans and the detailed delivery information they
contain. A CYP Workforce Development Strategy is also required.
The intention, therefore, is NOT that we write a brand new plan but that the CYPP enables us
to set out in one place our entire Wrexham programme for CYP and their families for the next
three years. We must also satisfy ourselves that our priorities are complementary and rooted
in evidence, and that we identify and address any gaps in provision or unmet need.
The CYPP does not have to be published until September 2008 but the requirement to carry
out a 12-week consultation, and the potential complexity of the work involved, mean that
timescales are tight; we have already been pushed off course somewhat due to so many
weeks’ of Estyn inspection to prepare for.
The body of the CYPP is linked to WAG’s seven Core Aims and these in turn reflect the UN
Convention on the Rights of the Child. I am attaching an overview of the contents of the CYPP
as set out in regulation and Guidance by WAG. As you will see, CYPP requirements extend far
beyond the Children and Young People Service alone; the help and support of colleagues
across Council departments and of external partners will be vital in achieving this task.
The staff leading on the different areas of the CYPP have also been identified; they will be
contacting colleagues in a range of departments and organisations for help with this task.
Initially, we will be asking for signposting to your main recent pieces of research/data/ needs
assessment and the key messages which you have drawn from these which have, in turn,
fed into your current priorities and plans (we are trying very hard not to re-invent any wheels!)
Would you please share this information with your teams and ensure that requests for help
and support with CYPP development receive a positive response.
Many thanks,
Terry
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Appendix 1
Identifying processes for developing each of the Core Aims sections
Core Aim 1 The Early Years - Flying Start
Who might help?
This encompasses:
HSCWB
 Health aspects including breast feeding and ante natal care
 Childcare Strategy and Childcare sufficiency
SE/PM
 Flying Start
SE/HH
 Parenting Action Plan – link to pregnant teenagers
??/Cyfle
 ICCs
SE
 Education of three year-olds
HH
 Foundation Phase
HH
Agreed:
 Identified person to lead on pulling Core Aim 1 together: Susan Evans
 To be supported by: Lauren
Core Aim 2 Education and Learning Opportunities
Who might help?
This encompasses:
 KS2 achievement (nb. Foundation Phase)
JD
 The Estyn areas we’ve just been/will be inspected on
HW
 School improvement
HW
 Access and School Places, including Admissions
GE
 Attendance
GE
 ALN
All
 Social Inclusion
All
JOR
 Non-formal learning
KW
 14-19 provision
YPP
 contribution to YOS
 requirement to ‘provide, participate in or secure’ provision of
YSS for 11-25 year olds, and secure 10 entitlements and Wales
DD
Youth Service Strategy
JM
 Community-focused schools
??
 Healthy Schools
JOR
 School-based Counselling
JOR
 Provision for 16 –18 year olds
 FE and HE provision and contribution to CYPP
Agreed:
 Identified person to lead on pulling Core Aim 2 together: Jan Jones
 To be supported by: Lauren and Louise OR Claire Klim (tba)
Core Aim 3 Health/Freedom from Abuse and Exploitation
3a Health
This encompasses
A) Health:
 NHS responsibilities for long term health care needs
 Promoting better health while reducing inequalities
 Health advice and info services (nb. entitlement 9)
 NSF standard promoting HWB
 The HSCWB of CYP
 Local implementation of Food and Fitness – include links to
Core Aim 4
 Substance misuse
 Sexual health
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Who might help?
ALL COVERED BY:
HA SCoG
HSCWB Strategy
 CYP experiencing parental separation
 CAMHS
 NB Wrexham Priority – ICDS!
Agreed:
 Identified person to lead on pulling Core Aim 3a together: Angela Roberts (TBC)
 To be supported by: Jeanette Shenton
3b Freedom from Abuse and Exploitation
Who might help?
B) Freedom from Exploitation and Abuse - Safeguarding (See
also Core Aim 6)
ALL COVERED BY:
 All LSCB heavy ended safeguarding requirements including
Marie and LSCB
adoption services, LAC and young people leaving care and
disabled YP (see 6.6 and 6.7 on pages 46-47)
 CYP experiencing parental separation
Agreed:
 Identified person to lead on pulling Core Aim 3a together: Marie Lebacq
 To be supported by: Jillian McBrearty-Smith
Core Aim 4 Play, Sport, Leisure and Culture
This encompasses – Strand 1: Play
 Play Policy and Play Policy Implementation Plan (see 7.4 on
page 49). Inclusive play (ability, gender, race, culture). To
include staffed adventure play (7.9)
 Nb. link to access to affordable public transport and integrated
safe walking and cycling routes to school and play areas
 NB. playgrounds
This encompasses – Strand 2: Sport
 Implementation of Climbing Higher (7.6)
 Dragon Sports and PESS initiatives
 Sport and creative skills in school (7.7 nat curric)
This encompasses – Strand 3: Leisure/ Recreational Services
including organisations such as Local Authority, ICCS, YSS and vol
orgs – providing accessible:
 play
 leisure
 sporting services
 cultural activities – including music, arts, museums
 outdoor activities
 recreational opportunities
 social opportunities
Who might help?
EP SCoG
Helen Edwards
Jonathan M
TAMs
Ken D/
Dragon Sp/
Delyth
EP SCoG
GL/LM/DP
LOT
Ken/Myra/Del
Hazel H
Dylan
???
This encompasses – Strand 4: Culture
 Library services and nb. CyMAI Public Libraries Standards
 Museums – Inspiring Learning Framework
Hazel
Dylan
This encompasses – Strand 5: OOSHL
 OOSHL childcare and holiday playschemes, and action to
promote other OOSHL activity
EP SCoG
DD?
This encompasses – Strand 6: Volunteering/Citizenship
 Participation in volunteering and active citizenship

Also need to involve NPHS – Sylvia Rickards and/or Louise
Woodfine?
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DD/AVOW –
Lyndsey E
Agreed:
 Identified person to lead on pulling Core Aim 4 together: Jan Jones for now
 To be supported by: Isobel Neudorfer
Core Aim 5 Participation in Decision-making
WAG descriptor of participation: Participation means that it is my
right to be involved in making decisions or planning and
reviewing any action that might affect me. Having a voice,
having a choice. This Core Aim encompasses:
 How we are applying the National Standards for Participation
across partners and projects/activity, including measures to
ensure inclusivity
 Arrangements for accessible complaints systems, and access to
quality advocacy services to support CYP in pursuing
complaints
Who might help?
EP SCoG
EP SCoG
Complaints?
NB. need to also address:
 Funky Dragon in own right
 Under 11s – Claire Broad and Laura
 Vicki Barlow
Felt that Core Aim 4 is about provision to be accessed by the
individual while Core Aim 5 is addressing the general and
overarching equalities agenda.
Agreed:
 Identified person to lead on pulling Core Aim 5 together: Donna Dickenson
 To be supported by: Louise
Core Aim 6 A Safe Home and Community
Who might help?
NB: This links to Core Aim 3 – Safeguarding and Core Aim 2 –
addressing poor behaviour in schools including bullying.
This encompasses – Strand A Crime and Youth Justice:
 Community Safety Partnership (CSP) obligations and Strategy
 Contribution to Youth Justice Plan
 Contribution to Substance Misuse Action Plan
 Collaboration between LSCB and CSP especially in re. coordination of assessment and support
 Tackling Domestic Abuse - All Wales Strategy – A Joint
Approach
 Work of YOS and CSP to reduce crime and improve youth
justice
 Work of YOS and CSP to identify needs of offenders/those at
risk of offending – also those at risk of becoming victims of
crime
 Alignment of Youth Justice Plans and CYPP to support CYP and
their families – prevent offending and support those engaging
from re-offending
This encompasses – Strand B Housing and Accomm
 National Housing Strategy – Better Homes of People in Wales
(9.7) – strategies to address homelessness, affordable housing
and improving housing quality
 Statutory housing responsibilities - duty to secure
accommodation for priority needs groups
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CSP
YOS
HA SCoG
LSCB
MARAC
Housing and Supp
People
This encompasses – Strand C Preventable Accidents
 (nb. only included in the template as 6.2 – not the text)
Protecting CYP from injury and death resulting from preventable
accidents – roads and elsewhere (see Eradicating Child Poverty
in Wales – Measuring Success)
TAMs?
Health and Safety?
Alyn Jones?
Steve Futcher?
This encompasses – Strand D Safe Environment
 (nb. only included in the template as 6.3 – not the text) Ensuring Envir Dept?
that CYP are safe from environmental pollution
Agreed:
 Identified person to lead on pulling Core Aim 6 together: Claire Klim
 Needs to liaise with:
 A Janet Growcott
 B Serena Baxter?
 C Steve Futcher/Alyn Jones
 D ????
 To be supported by: TBA
Core Aim 7 Not disadvantaged by poverty
There is an expectation in the Guidance that this will be more of a
cross-referencing section than a plan in its own right. It encompasses:
 Requirement to cross-ref with all other sections
 Improve economic well-being of CYP through development and regeneration activities



Who might help?
Wxm Ref
Town Centre Mgr
HSCWB Strategy
Mike Cantwell?
???
Genesis Project
Welfare Rights
Anti Poverty
Group
Return-to-work support
Benefit/debt advice for parents and carers
Remove barriers to employment by providing high quality and
accessible:

childcare

housing

health

transport

education services
 Remove barriers to participation in community life
 WAG 2-year project led by Save the Children supporting local
ALL
authorities in raising awareness of/tackling child poverty at a local
???????
level
Agreed:
 Identified person to lead on pulling Core Aim 7 together: JHJ (as this will be
done largely as part of the editing process)
 To be supported by: N/A or TBA
6.8
Cross cutting themes
There are a number of these which have their own, in depth
representation in a Core Aim but which also permeate all the other
Core Aims and need to be addressed in these also within that
specific context:
 how we are applying the National Standards for Participation
across partners and projects/activity, including measures to
ensure inclusivity
 inclusion (including Welsh and other languages) and access
 tacking child poverty (closely aligned with inclusion)
 income poverty
 participation poverty
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 service poverty
‘low level’ or corporate safeguarding – eg. all those working with
CYP to have CRB checks
 complaints systems and advocacy support to complain
Agreed that Template be constructed to enable x-cutting themes to be addressed –
Leads to consider and JHJ to sort out ultimately
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Appendix 2
Local Workforce Development Strategy (has to be published at same time
as CYPP)
5.2 Must include:
5.2.1 local priorities of the CYP Framework Partnership (FWP)
for 2008 - 11
5.2.2 links between CYPFWP’s Workforce Development
Strategy and the workforce plans of other partners
Nb. that Helen
 YOS
Edwards has the
 Youth Service
brief for workforce
 EY Settings
development re. play
 Schools
and Third Sector
 FE/HE
 Health
 Police
 Probation
 Fire Service
 Third Sector
 Private settings?
 Other?
5.2.3 Need information re:
 KK to contact
 When is the group meeting?
SR/DP
 Who does the group encompass?
 What scope has been defined for this piece of work?
AGREED: Sue Robins/Dave Palmer are undertaking this piece of work, but KK is
to be responsible for monitoring and progress-chasing this aspect for CYPP
Steering Group and for reporting back on progress/problems
If you would like a full copy of Circular 31/2007, please contact Jan Jones
(x7564) who will happily eMail one to you
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Appendix 3: Summary
CYPP Aspect
Overall
resp
Supporting
1. Body of the CYPP – PREAMBLE
Introduction
Vision Statement
Concise description of Partnership’s rationale for
deciding priorities and setting targets –
Memb of CYPFWP
Terms of Reference
Diagram of local joint planning structure
Intended contribution of activity supported by WAG
Grants
Coherent summary of intended improvements
2. Body of the CYPP – Core AimTemplates
CA1
CA2
CA 3a
CA 3b
CA 4
CA5
CA6
CA 7
The Early Years – Flying Start
Education and Learning Opportunities
Health
Freedom from Abuse and Exploitation
Play, Sport, Leisure and Culture
 Strand A: Play
 Strand B: Sport
 Strand C: Leisure/Rec
 Strand D: Culture
 Strand E: OOSHL
 Strand F: Volunteering/Citizenship
Participation in Decision-Making
Freedom from Abuse and Exploitation
 Strand A: Crime and Youth Justice
 Strand B: Housing and Accom
 Strand C: Preventable Accidents
 Strand D: Safe Environment
Not Disadvantaged by Poverty
Cross cutting themes





Jan
Lead
Susan E
Jan
Angela
Marie
Jan
Support
Donna
Claire Klim
Jan
Louise
TBA Liaise with:
Janet Growcott
Serena Baxter
Steve F/Alyn Jones
?? Envir Dept
TBA
JHJ
Core Aim Leads
Participation
Inclusion – including Welsh and other
languages and access
Anti-Poverty
Standard Safeguarding
Advocacy and complaints
Lauren
Lauren/Louise OR CK
Jeanette
Jillian
Isobel N: liaise with LOT
Donna
Jan
Marie
Donna
3. Published at same time as Supporting Papers
Local Workforce Development Strategy
Full Needs Assessment
Childcare Sufficiency Assessment
Service Profile (resulting from the mapping process)
CONSULTATION overall – pre-CYPP and after draft
publication
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Karen
Karen
Karen
Claire Klim
Claire Klim
DP/SR
CK/Lauren
SE/Phyllis/CK/Lauren
KK and ?
Laura P and JHJ