Children's Trust Arrangements (CTA)

In Manchester "Think Family" means reforming systems and services provided for children, young people and adults across the continuum of need, and not just for the most vulnerable, ensuring services work together to:-

• provide families with support at the earliest opportunity;
• meet the full range of needs within each family they are supporting or working with;
• developing services which can respond effectively to the most challenging families; and,
• strengthen the ability of family members to provide care and support to each other.

Manchester will develop an approach to enable services to work in a more integrated way with families.  Think Family is not a new delivery model; rather it is about building upon the good practice that all ready exists across Partner Agencies and replicating this across the City

We see the family in its widest context, including children, parents, grandparents, elderly family members and others and recognise that families live in communities which both impact on them and which they impact both in a positive or sometimes, negative way.

Our vision stated in Manchester 's children and young people's strategic plan 2009 - 12 is that we want all children in Manchester to be healthy, safe, enjoy and achieve at school so they have the skills, abilities, self-esteem and positive outlook to get good jobs, make a positive contribution and be successful in adult life.

The Think Family Strategy is supporting the delivery of this vision by:

• Delivering better outcomes for children, young people, families and the communities in which they live;
• Changing the way the workforce delivers it's work; and
• Delivering value for money
• This strategy will deliver better services for less money.

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