Issue - items at meetings - DRAFT CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE'S PRIORITIES

Report of the Director of Children’s Services.

33.1         Steve Barton, Assistant Director of Performance, CYPT, presented the report to Members and answered questions.

33.2         In response to a query as to why the indicator: “NI 147- People killed or seriously injured in road traffic accidents” was linked into the Children and Young People’s Plan, the Committee were informed that the Children’s Trust was committed to working with partners to reduce traffic related deaths.

33.3         In regard to a question as to why “NI 163- Proportion of men aged 19-64 and women aged between 19-59 qualified to at least level 2 or higher” was included in the young people’s plan, the Committee was told that adult learning was traditionally co-ordinated by (children’s) education services.

33.4         In answer to a question on having a smaller list of priorities to make them more achievable, this was agreed by the AD of Performance, CYPT who advised the Committee that the PCT had 10 “touchstone” priorities that led into other areas and this was something that the Children’s Trust was going to utilise on the Children’s Plan, two of which were Teenage Pregnancy and Childhood Obesity.

33.5         It was agreed that the Children’s Plan needs to encapsulate the complexities of Children’s lives, rather being based upon discrete “single issues”.