Wiltshire Children & Young People’s Trust
What it is and what it’s doing
“Most children & young people in Wiltshire are in good health, achieve well and make a positive contribution. But we want them to do even better – particularly children & young people who have fallen behind those of a similar age.”
What is Wiltshire Children & Young People’s Trust?
The Children & Young People’s Trust is made up of all the services for children & young people in the county – health services (like health visitors and school nurses); education services (like nurseries, schools and colleges); “social” services (like leisure and voluntary organisations); and others. Together they aim to make life better for children, young people and their families.
What is the Trust trying to do?
The Children & Young People’s Trust wants to make life better for children & young people in Wiltshire now and for the future and ensure that they:
• Are healthy
• Stay safe
• Enjoy & achieve
• Make a positive contribution
• Achieve economic wellbeing
[These are the five "Every Child Matters" outcomes.]
The Trust Board has looked into what most needs to be done if children & young people are going to achieve these things and its Children and Young People’s Plan describes what it is doing to make a difference.
Wiltshire Children and Young People’s Plan
The Children and Young People’s Plan describes how the Trust Board intends to make life better for children & young people in Wiltshire by 2011. There are 10 priorities:
• Promoting resilience
• Supporting mental wellbeing
• Improving achievement
• “Things to do – places to go – people to talk to” [for children & young people]
• Including disabled children & young people
• Reducing young people not in education, employment or training
• Tackling domestic abuse
• Obesity, healthy eating & exercise
• Reducing substance misuse
• Improving sexual health
Find out more about the Plan by clicking here.
How is the Trust run?
The work of the Trust is supervised by the Wiltshire Children & Young People’s Trust Board.
Who’s round the table?
Members of the Trust board are: young people; parents; schools; leisure; voluntary organisations; health; education; social care; fire & rescue; community safety; army welfare; police; probation; young people’s services; housing.
Making sure that things happen is the job of the Children & Young People’s Trust Board Executive and working groups for each of the priorities of the Children and Young People’s Plan.
Click here to find out more about the Children & Young People’s Trust Board and Trust Board Executive, and what they are doing.
To view the Trust Board's current work programme click here.
What happens locally?
Local Collaborative Partnerships
In each of Wiltshire’s “Community Areas”**, people who provide services for children & young people are being encouraged to get together in “Local Collaborative Partnerships” to plan how they can make sure that the right type of help is available when children, young people and their families need it, and…
“Team around the child” meetings
...bring together people concerned with a particular child or young person to make sure that they are working together to give the best help they can, using the “CAF assessment” to find out what help is needed. (These meetings might include a health visitor, children’s centre worker, teacher, teaching assistant, school nurse, or others who provide help.)
** There are 18 Community Areas - Amesbury; Bradford on Avon; Calne; Chippenham; Corsham; Devizes; Downton; Malmesbury; Marlborough; Melksham; Mere, Tisbury & Wilton; Pewsey; Salisbury; Tidworth; Trowbridge; Warminster; Westbury and Wootton Bassett & Cricklade.
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