How do Local Area Agreements (LAAs) fit with Childrens Trusts and the Children and Young Peoples Plan?
The Children and Young People’s Plan (CYPP) remains a key document covering all services which impact directly on children and young people and their families. Children’s Trusts have a vital role in: agreeing, reviewing and signing off the Children and Young People’s Plan; contributing to the Local Area Agreement (LAA); and in driving the operational plans which underpin them both. LAAs are now the primary vehicle for central government to agree targets for local government and its partners. Children’s Trusts are one of the main thematic partnerships of the Local Strategic Partnership which agrees the priorities for improvement in the LAA. The Children and Young People’s Plan continues to be a single, strategic, overarching plan for all local services for children and young people. The CYPP will identify where outcomes need to be improved and how and when this improvement will be achieved, and must be consistent with the LAA.
