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Our young people are crucial to the continuing success of the Borough, the region and the country.
Our vision is therefore that all children and young people of the Borough are:
- Happy, safe and healthy
- Encouraged to achieve their potential, and have high aspirations
- High achieving and highly skilled
- Actively participating in education, training or employment
- Respected and respecting
- Committed to learning
- Making a positive contribution through engagement with their community
To deliver this vision, the agencies of the Wigan Borough Partnership for Children, Young People and Families (Children's Trust) will:
- Ensure that improving outcomes for children, young people and families is at the centre of everything we do
- Co-ordinate effort and resources ever more effectively - and increasingly pool or share resources to improve outcomes for children, young people and families
- Contribute to each other's organisational development as colleagues and critical friends
- Through active engagement with the Wigan Safeguarding Children Board, maintain and further develop rigorous arrangements to safeguard children and promote their welfare
- Progressively shift resources into early intervention and prevention
The actions outlined in the Children and Young People's Plan, and in the many linked strategies, show how partner agencies will be taking this work forward in practical terms.
The Children’s Plan set out the Government’s aim to make the United Kingdom the best place in the world to grow up. This means making sure that all children, wherever they live, whatever their background, whatever their age, have their needs met so that they are healthy; stay safe; enjoy life and achieve well at school and beyond; make a positive contribution to society; and achieve economic wellbeing.
The role of Wigan’s Children’s Trust is to turn this vision into reality locally. In particular, the Children’s Trust will play a central role in bringing together all the services needed to ensure all children are safeguarded.
Children's Trusts are central to Government policy for improving children's services. The policy, developed in Every Child Matters, the Children Act 2004, and The Children's Plan aims to improve outcomes for all children by redesigning services and ensuring active partnership through Children's Trusts.
Children's Trusts bring together key agencies, including social care, health, police, education and other services to ensure integrated, child-centred approaches to improve outcomes for children, young people and their families.
Here in Wigan our Children Young People and Families Partnership (Children’s Trust) is an integral part of the Local Strategic Partnership (LSP). The Trust is focussed on achieving the Children and Young People’s Plan priorities. There are also close links with the Wigan Safeguarding Children Board.
Wigan’s Children’s Trust will improve children’s lives by delivering better services, including their health and wellbeing.
We will focus on a number of key priorities – which are clearly set out in our Children and Young People’s Plan (.pdf, 1000Kb)
The locality structure of the Children Young People & Families Partnership will provide a means for the range of professionals who work with children and young people in each of the five localities to focus on the needs of that community and to ensure local priorities are identified and addressed.
New Ways of Working Leaflet (.pdf, 556kb)
