Plymouth Children and Young People's Trust previous events

2011

This exciting and forward thinking document has been written to put the needs of children and young people first.  It set out five priorities that are important to ensure that all children in Plymouth have the best changes in life and shows the action that Plymouth City Council with take to help them achieve them.

The review of this plan led by Joan Watkins, has come about from various, well published consultation event, linking in with the local press to ensure the widest possible attendance.  These events have included Parents on the Plaza, online surveys and meetings with Plymouth’s Youth Parliament to target the views of Children and Young People.   Over 200 replies from members of the public and Plymouth City Council Staff were used to inform this Children and Young Peoples Plan.

2010

The following events took place recently:

• OfSTED and the Care Quality Commission (CQC) Inspection Briefings.
• Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) and Teacher Training Development Agency (TTDA) Collaborative Event

OfSTED and CQC inspection briefings
24 and 26 May 2010

On 24 and 26 May 2010 briefings took place to update staff across all partner agencies about the outcomes of the inspection which took place in March 2010. Staff were briefed on the current inspection regime and informed that our safeguarding and services for looked after children were rated as good. Detailed information on the various inspection judgements was also provided.

The full presentation can be downloaded below.

VCS and TTDA collaborative event
10 May 2010

The Tamar Science Park held the first VCS Stakeholder event this May, over 100 organisations from the public and the voluntary and community sector met to share ideas and good practice.

The stands represented the diverse and pioneering nature of the voluntary and community sector; many were interactive and superbly exhibited the incredible range of projects being delivered for children and young people in Plymouth.

Speakers at the event ranged from Head of Children's Services, Bronwen Lacey, Helen McLindon, Children's and Mental Health Commissioner to Kevin Feaviour, Training and Development Agency for Schools. Workshops were also delivered by British Association of Settlements and Social Action Centres (BASSAC), Plymouth Guild and the South West Forum, covering collaboration and commissioning topics.

Members of the voluntary and community sector were able to have a day of extremely productive and informative networking, exchanging ideas and demonstrating their original and successful projects.

Feedback from attendees from Plymouth City Council, the Youth Service, local schools and Plymouth Primary Care Trust was exceptionally positive, with members stating that they were unaware of the diversity and quality of the work undertaken within the voluntary and community sector.

This innovative event funded by Plymouth Trust for Children and Young People will enable attendees to build the foundations of new partnerships, mergers and collaborations that will help the public and voluntary and community sector in the challenging times ahead.

2009

The following events took place across the city during 2009 and covered the following areas:

• Improving the state of our minds
• Plymouths Challenge: Raising aspirations in young people and young people not in education
• Anti bullying
• E-Safety Conference

Improving the state of our minds (Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services)
4 September 2009

On Friday 4 September Plymouth's Children and Young People's Trust launched the Children and Young People's Mental Health and Emotional Well-Being Strategy for Plymouth 'Improving the State of our Minds'. The Strategy was launched by children and young people and the event was a celebration of positive mental health within Plymouth. An electronic copy of the strategy can be found on the Plymouth Children and Young People’s Plan 2008 to 2011 page. Our new 'fun' Strategy was also introduced which promotes easy access to activities for all children and young people in Plymouth.

Plymouth's challenge: Raising aspirations in young people and young people not in education
14 October 2009

We want children and young people in Plymouth to aim high and that's why our Children and Young People's Trust stakeholder day focused on the challenge of raising aspirations across Plymouth.

The national press has highlighted young people not in education, employment and training as a major concern across the country. This event gave the chance to find out more about the local picture and the ground breaking initiatives taking place right now.

The day provided a mixture of inputs including keynote speakers from the Children and Young People's Trust and members of Youth Parliament, plus workshops to learn more about areas of best practice. We heard from you about what's making a difference to young people's outcomes and you were able to snap up ideas about initiatives springing up nationally and locally.

Anti bullying
18 November 2009

The conference, held at the Plymouth Holiday Inn, was aimed at practitioners and their managers. It was in line with the expectations of the anti-bullying alliance; anti-bullying week focused on cyberbullying.

The conference covered Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) expectations with regard to e-safety and cyber bullying policies, how to translate policies into practice across the range of services, roles and responsibilities of all agencies in e-safety and cyber bullying issues, developing confidence and expertise for all staff with regard to the above issues, and it explored strategies to engage with parents.

E-safety conference
10 February 2009

The e-safety conference offered a multi agency experience, drawing together a wide variety of practitioners and their managers from across services for adults and services for children, with the aim of a common understanding of, and common response to Keeping Children Safe in CyberSpace.

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2007/2008 events

• Risk Taking Behaviour
• Children and Young People's Plan launch
• Have Your Say stakeholder event
• Review and Refresh of the Children and Young People’s Plan

Risk-taking behaviour
24 November 2008

This event took place at the Novotel Plymouth on Monday 24 November 2008. The day's event was set around the children and young people's plan priority reduce risk-taking behaviour such as substance misuse, unprotected sex and criminal activities. The purpose of the day was to enable practitioners to hear about the latest national and local best practice and attend workshops. Presentations from the day can be viewed or downloaded below.

Children and Young People's Plan launch
12 June 2008

The Plymouth Children and Young People's Trust held a stakeholder event on 12 June 2008 to launch the glossy version of the Children and Young People's plan 2008 to 2011 and our new logo. It was a very successful event and very well attended by staff from services across Plymouth.

Five workshops ran twice over the course of the day covering the five key outcomes and focused on the children and young people's plan themes and priorities and how we are going to implement them. The information from these workshops has now been collated and given to the Executive members who lead the priorities so they can develop their implementation plans.

The opening presentation can be downloaded below.

Have your say stakeholder event
16 January 2008

The Plymouth Children and Young People's Trust held a stakeholder event on 16 January 2008 to enable staff from a wide range of services to contribute to the new Children and Young People's Plan 2008 to 2011.

It was an extremely successful event and was significantly over-subscribed.

Five workshops ran three times over the day allowing participants to contribute to up to three different areas. Each workshop was based on one of the five key outcomes and focused on the themes and priorities identified from Plymouth's Needs Analysis.

The results of the event will be seen in the plan when it is published at the end of March 2008.

Thank you to everyone who contributed in making this a successful event.

Review and refresh of the Children and Young People’s Plan
8 and 14 May 2007

Two half day events were held on 8 and 14 May 2007.

The purpose of these events were to consider and review the consultation information from the parent/carers/children and young people on their priorities for services in Plymouth, gather views on the progress we have made across all Children's Services in the city and agree our local priorities for Plymouth.

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