Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council has established its Children and Young People’s Partnership, building on the membership and work of the former Children and Young People’s Framework Partnership and it’s two sub partnerships, the Children and Young People’s Partnerships.

The partnership is responsible for developing and agreeing the Children and Young People’s Plan, the key strategic statement setting out how the well-being of all children and young people in the area will be improved.

This is intended to:

• Provide strategic vision and state the agreed priorities that will direct the work of all partners;
• Describe how requirements of national and local strategies, policies and priorities will be tackled locally;
• Set out agreed joint objectives for services that can act as milestones to enable progress in improving outcomes to be measured over the planning timescale;
• Identify the contribution made by individual partners towards meeting joint objectives, ensuring that they are consistent and mutually supportive
• Provide a basis for the joint commissioning of services and sharing of available funding, including core budgets of statutory partners and resource or financial contributions from the voluntary sector.

All partners are committed to delivering the child poverty pledge made in 2008 which is ‘Working together we are committed to delivering high quality integrated services to support and empower children, young people and families to meet their potential, and to address the effects of child poverty’

Child poverty is Everyone’s Business, by working together we are confident we can make a difference.