Key partnership strategies

Which deliver the Buckinghamshire Children and Young People’s Plan outcomes

Anti bullying strategy

Buckinghamshire County Council will not tolerate bullying of any kind and expects schools to take action and work in partnership to ensure that all children and young people in Buckinghamshire’s schools are safe from bullying. Please see link below for further information.

Buckinghamshire children’s joint commissioning strategy 2007 – 2010

The definition of commissioning adopted in Buckinghamshire is:

The process of assessing need, identifying resources available, planning how to use the resources, arranging service delivery (as opposed to operational management), and reviewing the service and reassessing need…Commissioning creates the levers for service change…Integrated commissioning will bring innovation, value for money and improved services that cut waste and duplication.
Document available to download at the bottom of this page.

The Buckinghamshire community strategies

A ‘family’ of strategies at district and county level. These will be published in October 2009 and there will be a link to the Buckinghamshire Strategic Partnership web site available then.

Buckinghamshire Children and Young People’s Trust participation plan April 2009 to March 2010

The aim of the Children and Young People’s Trust Participation Plan is:

To establish a framework for the active involvement of children and young people in decision making processes that affect their lives across Buckinghamshire so that services provided by all agencies better meet their
needs.
Document available to download at the bottom of this page.

Buckinghamshire DAAT alcohol policy 2007 – 2010

Alcohol harm is a concern for a number of agencies in Buckinghamshire, both statutory and voluntary. There is growing evidence of a wide range of negative harms caused by alcohol affecting individuals and communities within Buckinghamshire. The development of this strategy has been led by the Drug and Alcohol Action Team (DAAT), and has been in development for nearly a year. The Alcohol Strategy for Buckinghamshire brings together multiple agencies that have a role to play in managing the negative effects of alcohol and delivering joint actions that will have greatest impact on individuals and communities in Buckinghamshire.

Buckinghamshire drugs strategy

DAAT Commissioning Strategy 2009-2012 will be on the DAAT website from late September and there will be a web link available.

Buckinghamshire healthy schools

Healthy Schools is a joint Department of Health (DH) and Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) initiative which promotes the link between good health, behaviour and achievement; it's about creating
healthier, happier children and young people who do better in learning and life.

Children’s centres strategy

By 2015 in line with the Community Strategy for Buckinghamshire we want to have significantly improved the life chances of children living and Buckinghamshire. This will be done by:

• Providing high quality services, which are accessible to families and children in both rural and urban areas
• Putting children at the centre, ensuring their families are actively involved in planning and shaping the services that affect them
• Developing integrating services to provide a holistic approach to safeguard the interests of children on the child protection register and promote their emotional, social and educational development
• Providing a network of children centres across Buckinghamshire to play a key role in promoting improved outcomes for children and families

Document available to download at the bottom of this page.

The Buckinghamshire 14 – 19 strategy 2008 – 2013

This is the local response to the national reform agenda, as set out in the 14 - 19 Education and Skills White Paper. The scale and scope of this reform agenda are broad, and will affect all aspects of provision.

There are three key drivers for the reform agenda:

• Economic – creating a highly skilled workforce to meet the challenges of a global economy
• Social Justice – ensuring that background shouldn’t determine success
• Personalisation – meeting each individual’s needs, whatever their abilities and aspirations

The key aims of the reform programme are:

• Raising Attainment Now - getting young people to stay in learning now, getting them onto the right courses, keeping them there, getting them to achieve
• Reforming Curriculum and Qualifications - so that more young people are motivated and engaged and what they learn is a better preparation for life
• Improving Local Delivery – creating the infrastructure (workforce, providers, facilities, local partnerships and arrangements) capable of delivering the curriculum and qualifications entitlement

Document available to download at the bottom of this page.

Extended services

Schools are typically at the heart of the community they serve, and are ideally placed to offer access to a range of extended services that can have a positive impact on standards and the life chances of children, young people
and families. An extended school provides a range of services and activities, often beyond the school day, to help meet the needs of children, their families and the wider community. Not all schools will be expected to offer extended services from their own sites, and primary schools particularly may have to work in partnership with other schools and on different community sites. However, expectations for secondary schools will be for them to be open from 8am to 6pm all year round offering a range of activities for young people and adults from the local area.

A Healthy communities strategy for Buckinghamshire 2009 – 2014

Good physical, mental and emotional health is a resource for enabling people to live their lives to the full. Poor health can limit their ability to play a full part in society and make the most of life. Who becomes ill and who stays healthy is determined by a wide range of influences such as employment, income, living and working environment,
supportive social networks and personal skills. This strategy is about health and wellbeing in its widest sense. It is therefore targeted at all public sector organisations, partnerships and groups in the private, voluntary and community sector who have an important contribution to make to the health and the wellbeing of our population.

Information sharing code of practice

The purpose of this Code of Practice is to outline the principles and practice which govern the sharing of information between agencies, for the purposes of identifying, safeguarding and promoting the welfare and protection of all children and young people. Signing up to this code establishes an organisation’s intentions and commitment to information sharing and to promote good practice. This code of practice sits below the overarching Buckinghamshire Information Sharing Protocol. There are individual procedures which govern the seeking and recording of informed consent and the steps to be taken to share securely. Individual agencies use their own consent forms.
Document available to download at the bottom of this page.

Local area agreement

A Local Area Agreement (LAA): “Sets out the ‘deal’ between central government and local authorities and their partners to improve the quality of life for local people. As such, the LAA is also a shorter-term delivery mechanism for the Sustainable Community Strategy (SCS)”. This is how LAAs are described in the current Communities and Local Government statutory guidance to 'Creating Strong, Safe and Prosperous Communities'. From the local government perspective, LAAs are a key feature of a more devolved central and or local settlement. Through these, different localities can channel public resources towards the priorities of their own
areas, alongside national outcomes and targets.
A link to the Buckinghamshire Strategic Partnership will be available shortly.

National service framework for children, young people and maternity services Oct 2004

This 10 year programme is intended to stimulate long-term and sustained improvement in children's health. It aims to ensure fair, high quality and integrated health and social care from pregnancy, right through to adulthood. At the heart of this National Service Framework is a fundamental change in our way of thinking about children’s health. It advocates a shift with services being designed and delivered around the needs of the child. Services are
child-centred and look at the whole child - not just the illness or the problem, but rather the best way to pick up any problems early, take preventative action and ensure children have the best possible chance to realise their full
potential. And if and when these children grow up to be parents themselves they will be better equipped to bring up their own children.

Obesity strategy

This is being updated and will be available towards the end of 2009.

Parent and family support strategy

The revised strategy has been agreed by the Children &Young People’s Trust Board and should be published by mid October 2009. It builds upon the Buckinghamshire Parenting Strategy of April 2008 and takes into account
recent developments in the national and local parenting agenda as well as broadening the scope of the original document.

Prevention strategy

The strategic ambition is the provision of a coordinated network of services and initiatives for children, young people and their families to support all of them in achieving positive outcomes and maximising their chances for later life.

Teenage pregnancy strategy

The Teenage Pregnancy self assessment and action plan are the documents used to delivery the Teenage Pregnancy Strategy. The Teenage Pregnancy brief states the position in Buckinghamshire in 2009.
Document available to download at the bottom of this page.

Workforce development strategy

The key to achieving the vision, aim and priorities for children and young people detailed above is an effective, integrated workforce in Buckinghamshire that delivers positive, and where needed, improved outcomes for children and young people.
This Workforce Strategy seeks to achieve a high quality workforce that:

• is trusted by children, young people and their families and with whom they feel, and are, safe
• is competent and confident in identifying and meeting the needs of children and young people
• is committed to safeguarding and improving the life chances of a diverse community, particularly regarding its more vulnerable children, those in special circumstances and those from ‘hard to reach’ groups
• has high aspirations and commitment and delivers excellent practice in a secure and stimulating working environment
• attracts people committed to the well being of children and young people
• offers opportunities for developing satisfying and rewarding careers within Buckinghamshire