Welcome! to your part of the Sunderland Children's Trust website.

These pages are especially for children under 11.

What is the Children's Trust????

The Government talked to lots of children to find out what they thought were the most important things they needed to have a good life.  This piece of work was called Every Child Matters.  They came up with the 5 things below. 

1. being healthy
2. being safe
3. being happy and proud of yourself
4. being able to join in
5. having enough money to live on

Children under 12 from all around the country were asked what they thought of these.  They said they were all important, but wanted to add some of their ideas to the list:

• family & friends
• enough food and drink
• fun and respect
• love
• being happy

What would you add to the list?

Everyone working with children and families in Sunderland is going to work together, as a Children's Trust, to make things better for all children and young people in the city.

In Sunderland there is a plan, called the Children and Young People's Plan which says exactly what will be done.