Rotherham’s Children and Young People’s Partnership brings together representative partners from a wide range of children and young people’s services. It is the driving force behind partnership arrangements, to ensure improved services and outcomes for children, young people and families in Rotherham. The Partnership promotes collaborative working and creative thinking to achieve the following three priority outcomes:
- Children, young people and their families are healthy and safe from harm
- Children, young people and their families are ready to learn for life
- Children, young people and their families are ready for the world of work
The Partnership works with children and their families to provide strategic direction for children’s services, improves joint working between agencies, and shapes the Children and Young People’s Plan for Rotherham. Specifically, the Partnership undertakes the following functions to achieve these objectives:
- Provides leadership to ensure services work in partnership to identify needs, and jointly plan, deliver and evaluate services
- Creates an environment where staff from all organisations, communities and families can work well together, to deliver on local priorities, including those identified by the Health and Wellbeing Board, and in the Community Strategy
- Consults with, and commissions consultation with, children, young people and families and responds to their needs
- Monitors progress against shared priorities and targets in the Children and Young People’s Plan
- Constructively challenges areas and aspects of under-performance and deploys resources to ensure improvement
- Champions children, and Rotherham as a child-centred borough, ensuring that the voice of children and young people and their families is at the heart of the Partnership’s work, and across all Rotherham services
- Aligns, and where appropriate, pools budgets to enable joint commissioning of services, and most effective use of resources
- Commissions a broad range of services from providers in the statutory, community, voluntary and private sectors
- Establishes Task and Finish Groups, and sub-groups, to address the identified priorities
- Provides direction and specific actions to the Task and Finish Groups and report outcomes, achievements and issues to the Health and Well-being Board and Improvement Board