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11 to 19 Years

 

2007 / 2008

2008 / 2009

Increase personal social development and enjoyment of recreation

Yes

 

Increase the number of young people gaining five GCSEs A*-C.

Yes

 

Increase participation rate post 16.

Yes

 

Develop young enterprise awards.

Yes

 

Revise the transition process in conjunction with Local Area Partnerships.

Yes

 

Develop a comprehensive complaints package for young people in schools

Yes

 

Reduce the number of surplus places in secondary schools

Yes

 

Develop the new relocated provision for teenage mothers, school phobics and children with serious medical conditions.

Yes

 

Provide access to impartial information and guidance on how the apply for a secondary school place, including the facility to apply on-line.

Yes

Yes

Provide access to a Choice Adviser who can offer impartial and independent advice enabling parents/carers to make an informed decision in their preferences for a secondary school place.

Yes

Yes

Provide access to home to school transport as per the authoritys published education transport policy.

Yes

Yes

Improve the lives of drugs/alcohol users.

Yes

Yes

Improve the lives of children and young people whose parents are drug/alcohol users.

Yes

Yes

Develop out of hours activities for young people.

yes

Yes

Provide access to PCs and job clubs in libraries

Yes

 

Develop specialist and integrated services for children and non-abusing parents within a domestic violence environment.

Yes

 

Establish a smoking cessation service for young people.

Yes

 

Provide funding for the 'Fit for Football' programme.

Yes

 

Provide access to services and activities through extended schools.

Yes

Yes

Improve access to sexual health services

Yes

Yes

Ensure support services for young people with disabilities

 

Yes

Consolidate approaches to monitor and evaluate the impact of SEN delegation.

 

Yes

Refresh the Teenage Pregnancy Strategy.

 

Yes

Improve Sexual Relationship Education (SRE) in schools.

 

Yes

Develop robust mechanisms to promote and protect the interests of BME groups along with other vulnerable groups such as looked after children and children with disabilities

 

Yes

Increase support and service provision for young carers

 

Yes

Provide access to the new extended duty (with effect from 01.09.08) to provide transport for children of secondary school age from low income families to any one of three nearest suitable schools between 2 and 6 miles away and in respect of the neatest school preferred on the grounds of religion of belief between 2 and 15 miles away.

 

Yes

Enable any young person over the age of 16 who lives in a Neighbourhood Renewal Fund area who wishes to make any type of healthy lifestyle change to have access to a Health Trainer. 

 

Yes



 

In Summary

The Children and young People's Plan will meet the needs of young people aged 11-19 years old by:

We will also continue to be vigilant in relation to standards of safeguarding and be ready to exploit opportunities for service enhancement.