Partners are working together to improve outcomes for children and young people in the city.

In Sunderland there is:

• a Children’s Trust, which acts as a Board
• a Children’s Trust Strategic Partnership, which implements the policy and business of the Children’s Trust, and
• a network of partnerships that are aligned to the Children’s Trust

Each of these partnerships has developed a strategy, which aims to work towards the outcomes identified in the CYPP, as well as other linked areas identified by the partnership. These partnerships, known as Aligned Partnerships are:

• Child Poverty Board
• Sunderland Safeguarding Children’s Board
• Learning Difficulty& Disability
• Looked After Children (the MALAP)
• Obesity Partnership
• Risk & Resilience
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health
• 0-16 Education Improvement PartnershipActive Sunderland Board
• Youth Offending
• Safer Sunderland
• 14 – 19
• Strategic Housing

The Children’s Trust has now developed its CYPP. The CYPP Strategy 2010–2025 ( 1.30mb) sets out the Children’s Trust’s strategic plans to improve outcomes over the next fifteen years. (An executive summary ( 187kb) is available.) The CYPP Delivery Plan 2010– 2013 ( 1.95mb) sets out the Children’s Trust’s priority outcome areas for the next three years. This is the first of five three year delivery plans that focus on specific outcomes and complement the strategy.

The priority outcomes in the delivery plan are:

Themes that cut across the whole of the CYPP

• CHILD POVERTY
• SAFEGUARDING
• NARROWING THE GAP FOR VULNERABLE GROUPS

- Children from black and minority ethnic groups

- Children in care

- Children in need and in need of protection

- Children with learning difficulties and / or disabilities

Priority outcomes that link to the Every Child Matters Outcomes Framework

• BEING HEALTHY

- Reduce levels of childhood obesity
- Reduce levels of teenage pregnancy
- Improve children and young people’s emotional and mental health
- Reduce substance misuse

• STAYING SAFE

- The impact of domestic violence on children and young people
- Reduce levels of bullying
- Reduce numbers of children and young people who are the victim of crime and reduce children and young people’s fear of crime

• ENJOYING AND ACHIEVING

- Improve attainment for all children and young people
- Improve attainment for vulnerable and underperforming groups
- Have locally accessible and affordable fun play and physical activities

• MAKING A POSITIVE CONTRIBUTION

- Reduce levels of offending
- Reduce levels of anti-social behaviour
- Improve the public perception of young people

• ACHIEVING ECONOMIC WELLBEING

- Increase the proportion of young people in education, employment and training
- Provide decent homes
- Improve accessibility and affordability of public transport
- Improve the environment