Section Five - Achieving Our Improvement Priorities Our Improvement Priorities

Protect the most vulnerable children and young people

Improve educational attainment (how well children and young people achieve at school)

Reduce the numbers of children and young people missing school

Increase the proportion of sixteen to eighteen year olds who are learning or working, focusing particularly on vulnerable groups

Provide children and young people with more places to go and things to do

Reduce the amount of crimes committed by young people and stop children and young people from being as scared about becoming victims of crime

Reduce the problems caused by drugs and alcohol for children, young people, families and communities

Improve the emotional well-being of children, young people and families

Reduce obesity among children and young people

Improve the sexual health of young people and reduce teenage pregnancy

How will we achieve our improvement priorities?

Our improvement priorities are the ten things that we think will help all Children and Young People in Nottinghamshire to progress towards achieveing the Every Child Matters outcomes. They are key to tackling inequalitites, including reducing child poverty and health inequalities.

For each of our improvement priorities, we have thought about what we need to do to achieve them, and produced an action.

Each action plan describes:

Although our Children and Young People's Plan is for two years, we have produced detailed action plans for one year (2009-2010). We will review these in March 2010 and create new action plans for 2010-2011. A summary of each of these action plans is included in this section.

This includes more information about why we chose these improvement priorities and what we will do to achieve them. It also includes more data about the needs of families in Nottinghamshire and more information about how we will measure the impact of what we do for children, young people and families. Our impact measures often use National Indicators (NIs). See Section 7 for more information about these.

In creating these action plans, we also thought about what we want to achieve over the next three years, and about what is on the horizon in the next five years (things that we think might happen and that may affect what we do). We have thought about the impact our action may have on equality, by considering how it may affect people different depending on their gender, race, age, disabilities, sexual orientation, or values and beliefs. We have also considered the impact on socially excluded groups.