Children and Young People
Children and Young People will be working to achieve the Government’s five outcomes; Service Integration; Preparing for Joint Area Review; Successful delivery of Building Schools for the Future, Children’s Centres and the Academies programme. The main functions are:
- Children’s Services Authority
- Education
- Children and Young People Social Care
- Early Years provision
- Youth Services
- Youth Offending Team
- Relevant Community Health services
Aims and ambitions
- Our aim is to deliver against the priority areas and associated outcomes detailed in the Children and Young People’s Plan:
- We want more young people to be educated and trained, and to have a better range of opportunities between the ages of 14 and 19
- We want to improve the education of those groups of children and young people who tend not to do as well overall
- We want fewer young people in Hackney to offend and re-offend
- We want to be sure that children and young people are safe both in the home and around Hackney
- We want to make sure that children and young people in Hackney have good mental health
- We want services for disabled children and young people to be better
- We want children and young people to live in a healthy way
- We want more and better things for young people in Hackney to do
Acheivements and priorities
For more information about what we achieved in 2008/09 and our priorities for 2009/10 - 2012/13 please view the document below:
Children and Young People Achievements and Priorities (58KB)
Our Service Standards
Children’s Social Care
- We will complete straightforward assessments of your needs within seven working days, and more detailed assessments within thirty five working days
- All children and young people who we work with will have a named qualified social worker
Youth Service
- Young people accessing Youth Services, will have the opportunity to gain a recorded or accredited outcome of achievement
- If you need extra support from one of our targeted Youth Support Teams, a worker will make contact with you within five days of you being referred
Youth Offending Team
- We will assess the needs of all young people who we work with, within ten working days of being given their details
- All initial training plans for young people subject to Detention and Training Orders (DTOs) will be developed within 10 working days
Page updated: 25 Jun 2010
