Children & Young People's Strategic Partnership

The Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership for Portsmouth has responsibility for aligning strategic agendas and driving partnership activity to deliver and support the Children’s agenda across Portsmouth. This page links to key documents associated with the work of the Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership including the terms of reference, membership and minutes of recent meetings.

Key aims of the Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership

To provide strategic leadership to secure improved outcomes for Children and Young People.
To develop a strategic overview for the work of the Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership.
To be accountable for key inter-agency decisions that relate to children’s services
To promote and apply in practice agreed Children’s Trust ways of working
To negotiate and secure local political multi-agency support for the work of the Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership and the Children and Young People’s Plan

Membership

A Chief Officer or senior manager from the following:-

Primary Care Trust
Police
Connexions
Community representation (needs further discussion through meetings)
Voluntary & Community Sector
Youth Offending Team
Schools (2)
Further Education
Health, Housing and Social Well Being
Children, Families and Learning (2)
Economy Culture and Community Safety
Lead for Children’s Trust Development
Chair of the Joint Commissioning Group

Time table of meetings for 2008

All meetings are scheduled from 2pm until 4pm and will be held in the Chief Executive Conference Room unless otherwise indicated.

15^th January	Conference Room A - Civic Offices
26^th February	CXCR
1st April	CXCR
20^th May	Joint Workshop - 12:00 - 4:00pm - Churchillian (Portsdown Hill)
1^st July (JAR)	CXCR
23^rd September	CXCR
4^th November	CXCR
16^th December	CXCR