Derbyshire Children and Young People's Trust
The Trust brings together all services for children and young people in Derbyshire to focus on improving outcomes for all children and young people. This is a requirement of the Children Act 2004 introduced following the tragic death of Victoria Climbie.
The county council − through its Director of Children's Services and Lead Members for Children's Services − leads the Derbyshire Children and Young People's Trust.
All publicly funded services for children aged 0-19 years are included in our Trust arrangements, including strategic health authorities, primary care trusts (PCTs), police authorities, local probation boards, youth offending teams, district councils, schools, colleges and third sector organisations, as well as other local authority services like adult social care and housing.
The Children and Young People's Trust Board, chaired by Cllr Barry Lewis, is the driving force behind the partnership arrangements to ensure improved services for children, young people and families. Working in partnership with children and their families the Board provides strategic direction for children's services and is helping to improve joint working between agencies.
The Board includes representatives from the youth council.
The role of the trust board is to:-
Provide leadership to ensure that services work in partnership to identify needs, and jointly plan, deliver and evaluate services
Consult with children, young people and their families and respond to their needs
Allocate resources
Monitor progress against priorities and targets identified in the Children and Young People's Plan (see below) and take appropriate action where these are not being met
Be accountable for the outcomes of the plan
Commission a broad range of services from providers in the statutory, community, voluntary and private sectors.
For more information about the work of the Children & Young People's Trust contact deb.smith@derbyshire.gov.uk
Related documents
The following documents are in Portable Document Format (PDF). You can download the PDF software for free from the Adobe website (opens in a new window)
- Children and Young Peoples Plan 2009 to 2012 (594KB)
- Every Child Matters - Introduction (762KB)
- Every Child Matters - Derbyshire summary (548KB)
- Every Child Matters - Combined report (2145KB)
- Every Child Matters - Being healthy (694KB)
- Every Child Matters - Staying safe (1045KB)
- Every Child Matters - Enjoying and achieving (1153KB)
- Every Child Matters - Positive contribution (1149KB)
- Every Child Matters - Economic wellbeing (1118KB)