Children and Young People's Trust Board

The Children and Young People’s Trust is a partnership, led by the local authority, that brings together key Bristol agencies to improve all children’s well-being through integrating planning and delivery of services.

The Trust encompasses all commissioners and current and potential providers of Bristol services for children and young people and their families. Its focus is on delivering the five Every Child Matters outcomes:

• Be Healthy
• Stay Safe
• Enjoy and Achieve
• Make a Positive Contribution
• Achieve Economic Well-being

Every partner will have work and responsibilities which sit solely within its own organisation; the Children and Young People’s Trust is about adding value through those things we should do together.

A diagram showing the Bristol Children and Young People’s Trust arrangements is attached here.

The national Children’s Plan sets high expectations for Children and Young People’s Trusts and sets out eight key priorities for us jointly to deliver:

1. Narrow the gap in outcomes: place a clear and measurably effective emphasis on narrowing the outcomes gaps between children from disadvantaged backgrounds (for example looked after children) and their peers, while improving outcomes for all;

2. Focus on prevention and early intervention: including for those children and young people at risk of being harmed or falling into anti-social behaviour or crime;

3. Involve children, young people and parents: involve and empower parents, and become more responsive to children and young people themselves;

4. Plan and commission services: ensure effective planning and commissioning of services and the flexible use of pooled budgets (or greater alignment) where that is the best answer locally;

5. Improve infrastructure planning: lead to more integrated and strategic infrastructure planning, making best use of all available assets and funding streams to deliver facilities for children and young people’s services, including through greater co-location;

6. Drive effective integrated working: between all professionals working with children and young people;

7. Support world-class health outcomes: support families in securing world-class health and well-being outcomes for their children;

8. Tackle the problem of child poverty.