About CYPC

Southern Area Children & Young People's Committee

            DISABLED CHILDREN & YOUNG PEOPLE

   KIDSCORNER

Statistical Information for:-

Working Groups:-

Family Support Strategy Group

Southern Area Child Protection Committee

Southern Child Care Partnership

Meeting the needs of Black and Minority Ethnic Children and Young People

Southern Area Action with Travellers

Disabled Children and Young People

Young Carers

Children & Young People with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties

Children, Young People and Offending

Children Looked After

Young People Leaving Care/ those requiring Aftercare Services and Homeless Young People

Domestic Violence Working Group

Children's Services Planning is managed by the Southern Area Children and Young People’s Committee.  The committee includes representatives from statutory, voluntary, community and black and minority ethnic groups, along with convenors of the working groups which carry out the detailed tasks of planning services for children.  

Ann co-ordinates the CSP process.  She sits on all the working groups, and helps to keep the whole process going.  She would be happy to hear from anyone with any interest in planning services for vulnerable children and young people.  

The Southern Area Children and Young People's Committee is chaired by the Director of Social Services, Southern Health and Social Services Board, Mrs Fionnuala McAndrew.

Members of the Southern Area Children and Young People’s Committee  

Development Day for the Children and Young People's Committee, 6th March 2003, Mount Zion House, Lurgan

(A full list of members is available at the bottom on this page.)

What do we do?

The Southern Area Children and Young People's Committee provides the strategic (high level) direction for the multi-agency planning.

Aim of the Children's Services Plan.

Our overall aim is to meet the needs of children and young people who are vulnerable, so that they can reach their full potential and be socially included members of the community, as children and adults.   

About Southern Area Children and Young People's Committee

The Children and Young People's Committee (CYPC) was set up in 1998, and we have developed both in terms of our membership and our joint commitment to the task of multi-agency planning of services for vulnerable children and young people.  Our partnership began life mainly as the statutory agencies which were named in the Guidance which set up Children's Services Planning.  We now have a balanced membership across the statutory, voluntary and community sectors which either provide services for or are concerned with the lives of children and young people.

Please see below for current membership of the Children and Young People's Committee. 

An important aspect of the development of the Children and Young People's Committee has been the process of ensuring this balance.  We, jointly with the other Northern Ireland CYPC s, recognised that each statutory agency needed to remain part of the Children and Young People's Committee.  In addition, the four CYPC s agreed with the voluntary and community sectors that there needed to be better representation of these sectors on the CYPC s.  Children in Northern Ireland , as the umbrella body of the children's voluntary sector, has, in partnership with the CYPC s, led a process of selection of representatives and development support.  The Children and Young People's Committee now includes three representatives of the children’s voluntary sector, three community sector representatives and two representatives of the Black and Minority Ethnic sector.

Strategic Objectives of the Southern Area Children and Young People's Committee for the Children's Services Plan 2005 - 2008 

In terms of the role of the Committee in overseeing the whole process, the Committee will concentrate on achieving progress in the following areas:

 Strategic Objectives of the

Southern Area Children and Young People's Committee for the Children's Services Plan 2005-2008

Ø                Outcomes based on Needs and Rights

Ø                The 'Whole Child'  

Ø                Supporting Families  

It is the view of the Committee that using the approach to planning based on high level outcomes will assist us to bring together promoting children’s rights while addressing their needs.  The model of the child in relation to the external world will also help to ensure that we think through which parts of the child’s environment must be addressed if positive change is to occur for that child or young person. 

This is expressed in the following diagram.

Key Objectives for the Southern Area Children and Young People's Committee

Flowing from the three key themes, it is intended that the work contained in the Children's Services Plan 2005-2008 should reflect the following priorities:

Ø Improved Outcomes for Children and Young People who are Vulnerable or in Need

The Children and Young People's Committee will aim to put in place a performance management framework that enables the CYPC to know how important outcomes are changing for vulnerable children and young people.  In effect, the CYPC wants to be able to begin to answer the question “How are our children doing”.

Ø Children Rights

It will be a key objective of the Committee to promote the articles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), through an integrated planning process, and to demonstrate that progress has been achieved against the UNCRC during the timescale of the Plan.

Ø Commissioning and Resources

The key objective will be for the Committee to increase its ability to influence how resources are used to address the rights and needs of children and young people.  In particular, the Committee wishes to see opportunities for joint commissioning created.

Ø Participation of Children and Young People

The key objective is to demonstrate that the frameworks for the participation of children and young people have been strengthened during the timescale of the Plan.

Ø Effective Influence

The key objective will be to show that positive changes have been made to relevant policy areas during the timescale of the Plan.

Ø Early Intervention

The key objective will be to show that, for each of the planning groups, proposals for prevention or early intervention services have been developed, and that the development of such services has been pushed forward by the planning groups, at well as those specialist services that are currently needed.

Ø Integrated Family Support Strategy

The key objective will be to show that the range of services available to children and young people which enable them to remain safely in their homes and communities has been expanded.  This will be carrie d out by the promotion of such services (as set out in the Family Support Strategy) within each planning group.

Membership

The following list shows the Southern Area Children and Young People's Committee members and their respective agencies.

Working Group Representatives

Convenor	Working Group	Picture
Dr Brid Farrell SHSSB	Disabled Children and Young People
Mr Andrew Rooke Probation Board Northern Ireland	Children and Young People who are likely to be suspended or expelled from school and Children and Young People who are likely to offend or who have offended in the past
Mr Maurice Leeson Barnardos	Family Support Strategy Group
Mr Paul Morgan Craigavon & Banbridge Trust	Young People Leaving Care, Aftercare and Homeless Young People
Dr Stephen Bergin SHSSB	Children and Young People with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties
Mr Tony Rodgers SHSSB	Children Looked After
Mr Paul Yam, Wah Hep Chinese Community Association	Black and Minority Ethnic Children & Young People
Mr Paul McConville, NCH Northern Ireland	Young Carers	Photo To be added

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