Manchester City Council

The Children's Board is pleased to present Manchester's Children and Young People's Plan (CYPP). The Plan is one of the new statutory requirements of the Children Act 2004.

The Plan is the single, strategic, overarching plan for all local services for children and young people, for example health services, police, local authority and voluntary organisations. It sets out a vision for children and young people and identifies how outcomes for children and young people can be best improved.

The contents of the Plan are specific to Manchester but also meet Government requirements.

The Children and Young People's Plan (CYPP) is a very important document for all of Manchester's children and young people, their parents and carers and for all those people who work with and support them. The Plan brings together in one place the top priorities for everyone working in Children's Services and sets out the actions required to improve outcomes and life chances for Manchester's children.

Manchester has agreed with the Government eight key priorities for Children's Services for 2007/08, these are:

• Continue to strengthen the early identification and prevention of mental health issues
• Significantly reduce the incidence of teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections
• Improve and integrate and develop new early intervention services for children at risk of coming into care
• Continue to improve outcomes for looked after children in terms of health and educational attainment
• Improve procurement and monitoring of looked after children and special educational needs placements to ensure better child outcomes were achieved in a value for money context
• Raise standards at Key Stages 1, 3 and 4 and maintain improvements at key stage 2 by targeting interventions in under performing schools and groups
• Improve school attendance
• Improve outcomes for 16-19 year olds by reducing the number of young people not in education or employment with training.

Downloadable documents:

Children and Young People's Plan 2006-2009 (PDF)
CYPP - summary (PDF)
CYPP - young people's version (PDF)