Agenda item

Report to follow

The Board gave consideration to a report from the Assistant Director of Safeguarding and Partnerships that set out the key aspects of Oldham’s emerging strategic framework and identified the role of the proposed Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership Board to deliver the ambition of Oldham being ‘a place where children and young people thrive’.

The Board were informed that a draft framework set out how Oldham’s partner agencies intended to deliver the ambition for our children and young people and identified how by working together our key organisations and most importantly our children, young people and their families could create and sustain a great future where everyone had the chance to thrive wherever they live in the Borough and whatever challenges they might face.

Alongside the high level outcomes, the framework would set out the key commitments that Oldham partner agencies would make to children and young people such as –

• Every Oldham child will be supported to have the best start in life.
• Every Oldham child will be start school ready to learn.
• Every Oldham child will be prepared for adult life through their school education.
• Every Oldham child will be have the opportunity to study at a school rated good or better.
• Every Oldham child will be supported to achieve their ambitions for post-16 education.
• Every Oldham child will be offered the necessary protection and support if and when they need it.
• Every Oldham child will be supported to make their voice heard to help design and improve children and young people’s services.
• Every Oldham child will be supported to enjoy being a part of and make a difference in their local community.

It was intended the framework would also ensure alignment to the emerging GM landscape including the 10 priorities set out in the Greater Manchester Health and Wellbeing Framework for Children and Young People. The three top priorities in the GM Framework were; early years and school readiness, mental health and resilience and the prevention of avoidable hospital admissions, all of which featured in local transformation programmes.

The Children and Young People Strategic Partnership Board would bring partners together in a formal way to ensure delivery of our ambition.

The Partnership Board would oversee the progress in achieving our objectives and partners would support and challenge each other to ensure that collectively and as individual organisations our commitment to ensuring Oldham’s children and young people thrive was relentless. In fulfilling its function, the Partnership Board would hold to account those thematic partnerships which had a particular are of improvement focus.

The Partnership Board would be accountable to the Health and Wellbeing Board.

The Lead Member for Children’s Services would chair the Children and Young People Strategic Partnership Board and have reporting accountability to the Health and Wellbeing Board.

The Partnership Board would develop its own set of Key Performance Indicators drawn from existing KPI’s across the system. Members of the partnership would play a crucial role in delivering our ambition and would represent statutory and non- statutory partner organisations.

RESOLVED that:-

a)    The Health and Wellbeing Board noted and endorsed the approach to establishing a strategic framework within which partners deliver on the ambition for Oldham to be a ‘place where children and young people thrive’.

b)    The Health and Wellbeing Board approved the proposal to establish the Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership Board.