What is the Children & Young People’s Partnership?

Herefordshire Support for Families Strategy Consultation


What is the Partnership doing?

• Working to change the ways services are provided so that children, young people and families that need extra help can be identified and supported as early as possible.

Consulting with children, young people, families and the people that work with them


What is a Family?

An adult doing the ‘job’ of parent or carer to one or more children or young people

Birth families

Extended birth families

Foster families

Adoptive families


What is Support for Families?

Any activity that aims to support a family to successfully meet all of their children’s needs

Need for a healthy life

Need to stay safe

Need to enjoy and achieve

Need to make a positive contribution

Need to achieve economic well-being


How are children & young people supported?

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Volunteering MoneyProblems

Career

Family

Friends

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Connexions/AdviceCentre

Where do you go first for help or information?Source: Young People’s Health & Lifestyle Survey 2006,

involving 3853 11-15 year olds in Herefordshire•Mostly provided from within the family itself.

•Sometimes by an external agency or agencies with a specific remit to do so.

• ‘External’ support should be provided in partnership with the family, as they will be key to its success.


What ‘needs’ do children, young people and families have?


How is support provided now?


How do we plan to change things?


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What is the Children & Young People’s Partnership?

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