Conwy Children and Young People s Plan Priority Areas

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1 Conwy Children and Young People s Plan Priority Areas Priority areas as updated in the October 2009 plan review (new and changed priorities are highlighted in blue). For a full copy of the Conwy Children and Young People s Plan please see Core Aim 1 Have a flying start in life and the best possible basis for their future growth and development 1.1 Childcare Developmental Widely available Affordable and flexible choices Welsh language provision Out of school hours and holiday play schemes 1.2 Implementation of flying start 1.3 Progress of integrated children s centres and co-ordinated approaches 1.4 Provision of excellent healthcare Healthy at birth and through the early years Addressing special needs Good and secure attachments Well nourished Achieving developmental milestones 1.5 Early education/foundation phase Ensure the availability of good and part-time education for three-year-olds Implement and roll out the foundation phase 1.6 Parenting Parent strategy Information for parents Parent participation Parenting skills and support programmes Teenage pregnancy and young parents

2 Core Aim 2 Have access to a comprehensive range of educational and learning opportunities, including the acquisition of essential personal and social skills 2.1 Raising standards and improving performance in all education settings Welsh language Basic skills in literacy and numeracy Gender performance gap More able and talented learners Equality and diversity Improving school and the performance in other settings Primary to secondary transition learning pathways Healthy schools Outdoor learning experiences 2.2 Pupil behaviour Exclusions School attendance Personal and social education (PSE) Bullying Children and young people who have offended or are at risk of offending 2.3 Pupils with additional learning and support needs Child protection Pupils with special educational needs (SEN) Pupils with a disability Looked after children Young carers Young parents and pregnant young women Children and young people from gypsy or traveller backgrounds Ethnic minority groups Pupils with medical needs 2.4 Raising standards of education for children and young people not educated in school hrs education - education other than at schools (EOTAS) Attainment of pupils attending alternative education Attendance at pupil referral and alternative education units NEET Strategy 2.5 Conwy school modernisation agenda Managing school places Home to school transport Management of the education services property portfolio 2.6 Youth Service Inclusive provision Welsh language Planning provision Accreditation

3 Core Aim 3 Enjoy the best possible physical and mental, social and emotional health including freedom from abuse, victimisation and exploitation 3.1 General health Generic health Access to services Dental care 3.2 Healthy lifestyle Healthy eating Smoking Healthy sexuality Substance misuse 3.3 Vulnerable children and young people Children in need Young carers Looked after children and care leavers (previously 3.3.4) Emotional and mental health (previously 3.3.5) 3.4 Safeguarding Local safeguarding board Domestic abuse 3.5 Children with disabilities 3.6 Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

4 Core Aim 4 Have access to safe play, leisure, sporting and cultural activities and information 4.1 Information Information strategy 4.2 Culture (previously 4.4) Culture (previously 4.4.1) Libraries (previously 4.4.2) Museums (previously 4.4.3) Arts (previously 4.4.4) Events (previously 4.4.5) Cultural tourism (previously 4.4.6) Participate in volunteering (previously 4.4.7) 4.3 Play (previously 4.2) Play strategy (previously 4.2.1) 4.4 Sport and leisure (previously 4.3) Engages and participates in sport and leisure activities (previously 4.3.1) Leisure facilities (previously 4.3.2) Audit of barriers to participation in sport and leisure and includes children children with disabilities (previously 4.3.3) Training of coaches and instructors (previously 4.3.4) Extra curricular sporting activities (previously 4.3.5) Participation in swimming lessons (previously 4.3.6) 4.5 Improving access to play, leisure & social inclusion

5 Core Aim 5 Be listened to, treated with respect, and have their race, faith and cultural identity recognised 5.1 Strategic multi-agency participation Develop a strategy and timetabled plan for participation in local decision-making Set up mechanisms of involvement for children and young people on a multiagency level across the range of policymaking, including harder to reach groups Support for service deliverers 5.2 Participation in services and agencies Strategy and timetabled plan Services involve children and young people in planning, reviewing and evaluation of services and in running centres 5.3 Children are respected and have their race, faith and cultural identity recognised Children respected and treated as valued members of the community Rrace, faith and cultural identity recognised and equality of opportunity a reality Children and young people know about their rights and how to obtain them 5.4 Compliments and complaints Freely available to all children and young people (NSF 2.7; NSF 2.23) 5.5 Advocacy Integrated model for advocacy across Wales

6 Core Aim 6 Enjoy the benefit of a safe home and a community that support physical and emotional wellbeing 6.1 Local housing strategy Update audit on housing need Homeless children and young people Provide good quality housing Children and young people with disabilities Affordable housing Choice in where families live Secure accommodation for priority needs group Update audit of housing needs for young people 6.2 Community safety and injuries Anti-social behaviour Criminal damage Domestic abuse Violent crimes particularly related to alcohol Substance misuse Reducing youth crime, prolific and other priority offenders Injuries Serious violence Bullying 6.3 Accidents and injuries 6.4 Anti-bullying

7 Core Aim 7 Intervention to ensure they are not disadvantaged by poverty/ rurality/ ethnicity/ disability 7.1 Reduce child poverty Reduce income poverty Childcare Improve services Education 7.2 Fuel poverty 7.3 Participation 7.4 Improve homeless and housing services 7.5 Transport 7.6 Communities First 7.7 Language 7.8 Equality Migrants and immigrants (previously 7.8) Black and Minority Ethnic Groups (previously 7.9) Lesbian, Gay and Bi-sexual (previously 7.10) Unaccompanied asylum seekers (previously 7.11) Children with disabilities (previously 7.12) Gender (previously 7.13) Religious belief (previously 7.14)