Children's Services – Council Plan 2008/09
Cllr Keith Glazier is the Lead Member for Children's and Adults' Services portfolios. Within the Children’s Services portfolio, Cllr David Elkin is the Lead Member for Learning and School Effectiveness and Cllr Meg Stroude is the Lead Member for Children and Families.
Our aims
We will continue to work closely with partners and local communities over the next three years to provide seamless, coherent support to children, young people and their families to help them maximise their skills for life, their enjoyment of learning and to ensure they are safe and healthy. One of our key priorities is to narrow the gap between outcomes for children and young people in our most deprived areas and the rest of the County.
We want East Sussex to be a place where children and young people are celebrated and we are committed to enabling children and young people to participate as fully as possible in decisions which affect them personally, as well as in helping us develop our services.
What we will do (policy steers)
5.1 Improve the way that we work with partners through the Children’s Trust arrangements.
5.2 Shift the pattern of investment towards prevention and early intervention, including increasing the range of family support services.
5.3 Improve access to services, especially in rural areas.
5.4 Promote good health for children and young people and reduce health inequalities.
5.5 Reduce teenage conception rates across the County.
5.6 Protect children and young people from harm.
5.7 Reduce bullying and anti -social behaviour by and towards children and young people, wherever it occurs.
5.8 Improve support to children and young people on the edge of care, especially vulnerable teenagers.
5.9 Develop integrated services for children under 5 and their families through a network of children’s centres and increase take up and quality of early years education.
5.10 Continue to raise educational achievement and aspirations at all key stages for children of all abilities, and reduce the attainment gap for children and young people from vulnerable and disadvantaged backgrounds.
5.11 Increase the choices for vocational learning opportunities for children and young people aged 14–19 and reduce the number of young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET).
5.12 Provide positive activities for children and young people and increase opportunities for them to be involved in decisions that affect them.
To read about how we are going to achieve our aims read the Children's Services chapter of the Council Plan.
