Children's Trust

Suffolk Children's Trust brings together all organisations that provide services or support to children and young people in Suffolk. Through identifying where we can work more effectively together than alone, we aim to improve what we do and make Suffolk an even better place for children and young people to grow up.

Suffolk’s strategic vision for children and young people, as set out in the Children & Young People's Plan 2009-11, is to enable all children and young people in Suffolk to aspire to, and achieve their full potential, giving them the basis for a successful life as active members of their community.

The Children’s Trust works to ensure that children and young people are:

Healthy
Safe
Enjoy and achieve
Able to make a positive contribution to society eg volunteering, giving their views
Achieve economic wellbeing – further education and access to employment and training

It does this through:

A child centred outcome led vision
Integrated front line delivery
Integrated process
Integrated strategy
Inter-agency governance

The Children’s Trust Strategic Board

The Board is responsible for the overall direction of the Trust. It agrees the strategic direction and priorities. Its main functions are:

Lead and give clear strategic direction to the priorities and delivery of the Children & Young People Plan (CYPP) and drive the whole system change in the needs of children, young people and families.
Secure engagement of all relevant partners and hold iteself and individual partner agencies to account for CYPP and LAA targets and publish an annual report on the extent to which partners have acted in accordance with CYPP.
Decide on strategic priorities and investment/divestment decisions of joint resources.
Ensure robust local arrangements for safeguarding.

The Board agreed Branding Guidelines for the partnership in October 2009.