Children's Trust Partnership Board
Terms of Reference
1. Purpose
To provide strategic leadership for children and young people’s services in Peterborough.
2. Aims & Objectives
The Children's Trust Partnership Board aspires to make real improvements in the lives of children and young people in Peterborough.
The Children's Trust Partnership Board will aim to improve outcomes for children and young people in the following areas:
- Be healthy: enjoy good physical and mental health and live a healthy lifestyle
- Stay safe: be protected from harm and neglect and grow up being able to look after themselves
- Enjoy and achieve: get the most out of life and develop broad skills for adulthood
- Make a positive contribution to the community and to society and not engage in anti-social or offending behaviour
- Achieve economic well being so that they have a good start in life and are able to achieve their full potential and secure employment
3. Activities
The Children's Trust Partnership Board will:
- Provide the strategic direction and leadership required for the development of children and young people’s services in Peterborough against Every Children Matters / National Service Framework outcomes
- Performance manage Block 1 of the Local Area Agreement (LAA) and report on LAA performance to the Greater Peterborough Partnership (GPP) Executive Group
- Inform the development of and agree Peterborough’s Children and Young People Plan and secure the commitment from key partners in delivering this shared plan of action
- Agree joint priorities and targets towards the achievement if better outcomes for children and young people in Peterborough, identify associated performance measures and ensure priorities are delivered
- Set the strategic context for the sharing of resources and development of joint commissioning of children and young people’s services
- Communicate and engage with wider stakeholders, including children and young people, to influence planning and delivery
- Engage with other strategic partnerships, such as the Peterborough Learning Partnership and Community Safety Executive Board, to ensure co-ordinated responses to shared issues
4. Partnership Structure
The Children's Trust Partnership Board is part of Greater Peterborough’s local strategic partnership structure and reports directly to the Greater Peterborough Partnership (GPP) Board.
The Chair of the Children's Trust Partnership Board will sit on the GPP Board and GPP Executive Group.
The Children's Trust Partnership Board will be supported by the following sub-groups that will oversee specific areas of strategy and implementation:
- Children’s Strategic Partnership (Birth – 13)
- Young People Strategic Partnership (13 – 19)
- Transformation Group
The Chairs of these groups will sit on the Children's Trust Partnership Board.
The structure, terms of reference, membership and activity of sub-groups will be reviewed
annually by the partnership.
5. Membership
The Children's Trust Partnership Board will operate via a core of key members while sustaining and communicating with a wider stakeholder group.
Members should be of sufficient seniority to give agreement to commit resources and actions on behalf of their organisations.
The key members of the Children's Trust Partnership Board will be:
- Director of Children’s Services, Peterborough City Council
- Chief Executive, Greater Peterborough Primary Care Partnership
- Chief Executive, Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Mental Health Partnership Trust
- Chief Executive, Peterborough & Stamford Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Chief Executive, Connexions Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
- Voluntary/Community Sector (VCS) representatives (3) – Voluntary Sector Forum, Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Council for Voluntary Youth Services and Peterborough Race Equality Council proposed
- Cambridgeshire Constabulary
- Community Services, Peterborough City Council
- Lead Member for Children’s Services
- Learning & Skills Council
- Chairs of CYPSP sub-groups
The Children's Trust Partnership Board will meet a minimum of four times per year.
Agendas and supporting documents will be issued at least one working week before the meetings.
Minutes will be produced and circulated within ten working days of the meeting. Peterborough City Council’s Democratic Services Department will provide administrative support to the working of the Children's Trust Partnership Board.
6. Accountability
The Children's Trust Partnership Board will report to the Greater Peterborough Partnership (GPP) Board and Executive Group.
The Children's Trust Partnership Board will be chaired by the Director of Children’s Services.
The Children's Trust Partnership Board will review its structure, membership and activities annually and present its proposal to the GPP Board.
The Children's Trust Partnership Board will hold at least one stakeholder conference per year, at which it will involve the wider stakeholder group in strategic planning.