How we developed our Children, Young People and Families Plan
The Children’s Trust Executive Group has managed the production of this plan. This group comprises senior managers from key partner organisations and it coordinates the work of the Children’s Trust. This plan is the result of development activities to:
- identify the needs of children, young people and their families in Nottinghamshire, as presented in a revised children’s chapter of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA)
- review evidence of how effectively we are meeting these needs (evidence included inspection reports, a final review of performance for the Children and Young People’s Plan 2009-11, and other performance data reports)
- consult with key partners through the Children’s Trust Board and Nottinghamshire Safeguarding Children Board (NSCB) about priorities for the Children’s Trust.
Throughout all our development and consultation activities, we adopted a value-for-money approach, using existing meetings or networks for consultation.
In revising the children’s chapter of the JSNA, we combined data already held by individual partner organisations to build a shared picture of the situation in Nottinghamshire. We used information from consultation activities undertaken with children, families or communities, including a survey of young people’s views commissioned in 2010.
How we will review and update our Children, Young People and Families Plan
Our review process is essential to the performance management of our plan. Reviewing our progress enables us to:
- check that we are doing what we planned to do
- assess if this making an impact.
Every year, we undertake two reviews:
- Six-monthly Review This assesses if we are making the progress we expected. If not, we may change some actions contributing to our priorities, but are unlikely to change the priorities themselves
- Annual Review This is a full review of progress and a re-assessment of the information that we have about the needs of children and young people in Nottinghamshire, which may lead to changes in our Children’s Trust priorities. Following this review, we will publish an update of this plan.
How we will measure the impact of our Children, Young People and Families Plan
Each of our priorities for action has associated impact measures, including:
- performance indicators, identifying desired outcomes for a group of children or young people, with associated targets defining change expected over a period of time
- ways of identifying the quality of our work, for example, feedback from children, young people or families
- milestones to monitor delivery of planned actions.
From these, we have selected key indicators, targets and milestones to provide an overview of performance across all our priorities. These will be reported on every six months to provide information for our review process.
The table in Section 6 summarises our key performance indicators and targets. A performance management supplement to this plan provides more information on this work.
