Children and Young People's Plan

The Children and Young People’s Plan (CYPP) 2009-2012 - ‘Believe, Achieve and Succeed’

We want all children and young people in County Durham to be safe and healthy and to believe, achieve and succeed. This means creating the same opportunities for everyone to improve their quality of life.

The CYPP 2009-2012 sets out what we need to focus on to make the greatest impact to improve the lives and aspirations of children and young people living in County Durham. Our 11 priority areas are to:

• Reduce childhood obesity
• Reduce teenage conceptions
• Reduce children and young people’s misuse of alcohol and drugs
• Improve children and young people’s emotional well-being
• Reduce youth crime
• Support families and carers, particularly those that are vulnerable or have complex needs
• Safeguard and promote the welfare of all children and young people in County Durham
• Raise aspirations and help everyone to achieve
• Improve places to go and things to do for all children and young people
• Help young people feel valued and respected
• Enable young people to actively engage in education, training or employment

These priorities have been determined through listening to children, young people and their parents, gathering a range of national and local performance data, service user satisfaction surveys, feedback from complaints, comments and compliments, inspection feedback and working with partners across the Children’s Trust.

From July 2009 you will be able to access a copy of the final CYPP and Summary document, however, in the meantime the draft document of the CYPP only is available below, along with the first CYPP and associated documentation.

For further information or to obtain a hard copy of the CYPP please contact Lisa Ryder, Planning and Performance Officer on 0191 383 4732.

You can download Adobe Acrobat Reader from the Adobe website.

DRAFT_Children_Young_Peoples_Plan_29_04_09.pdf (65 pages, 4446kb)

Please Note - this document is still a draft document, the final plan will be published early July 2009.

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