How will Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) be part of the Childrens Trust?
Increasingly, Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) and local authorities must work together to achieve their common goals, including delivering on Public Service Agreement targets. The NHS Operating Framework 2008-09 identifies child health as a priority and PCTs can only address this fully if they work in concert with local authorities. Working through the Children’s Trust, partners should assess the type and level of need (as part of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment). Based on this evidence, partners should ensure that appropriate action is included in the Children and Young People’s Plan, PCT operational plans, commissioning plans, the Sustainable Community Strategy and, where appropriate, the Local Area Agreement. PCT performance for activities which it carries out alone will be assessed against a set of indicators – the Vital Signs – which include indicators for children’s health. Some of these Vital Signs are also in the National Indicator Set. This means that the performance of the lo
