Barnet’s Children’s and Young People’s
Partnership Board brings together all services for children and
young people in the borough, to focus on hearing the voice of
children and young people, monitoring key strategies and improving
outcomes.
Senior representatives from partner organisations make up the
Children’s Partnership Board which keeps strategic oversight
of the Barnet Children and Young People’s Partnership Plan.
Each organisation has agreed to be responsible for implementing
this plan which will be monitored by the Board.
The
legal framework underpinning Barnet’s Children’s
Partnership Board arrangements is the ‘duty to
cooperate’ and improve the well-being of children across the
Borough, set out in S10 of the Children Act 2004.
Responsibilities and Functions
The
Children’s Partnership Board is accountable for the
following:
·
Ensuring the
voice of children and young people is heard in Barnet
·
Discussing
the strategic direction of children’s services in
Barnet
·
Developing
and delivering the Children & Young People’s
Plan
·
Ensuring
that the collective resources of the partners are being used to the
best effect to meet the priorities in the Children & Young
People’s Plan
·
Resolving
issues that block progress against the priorities
·
Summary
updates on agreed Plans and Strategies relating to Children and
Young People in Barnet
·
Working with
the Voluntary Sector in a particular
approach to enable the best outcomes for children and young
people
This
includes shared responsibility for:
·
Meeting the
priorities in the Children & Young People’s
Plan
·
Jointly
developing, delivering and resourcing strategies and action plans
necessary to meet the priorities
·
Addressing
barriers to meeting the priorities and to identifying future needs,
including communication, information and data sharing
·
Keeping
Children’s workforce informed and involved, providing clear
direction, development and training as necessary
·
Releasing
staff to develop and attend network events
·
Clarifying
and simplifying governance structures and
decision-making
·
Ensuring
that children, young people and families have a voice in decision
making that affects them
·
Monitoring
performance towards agreed outcomes and taking remedial action
where necessary.
·
Building
upon good practice and developing an evidence-based approach to
what works.
The
partnership’s remit includes the needs of all children and
young people in Barnet under the age of 19, young people up to the
age of 25 leaving care and young people up to the age of 25 with
special educational needs and disabilities. These responsibilities
include effective transition arrangements, where
necessary.
The Board
will be chaired by the Council’s Executive Director for
Children.
The
membership currently consists of representatives from the following
organisations:
LB
Barnet
Public
Health
Barnet
Clinical Commissioning Group
Barnet
Police
Schools
Cambridge
Education
Voluntary
Sector
Young
Persons Representatives
Multi
faith representative
Parent/Carer group representative