The City of London and its partners in the Children & Young
People’s Strategic Partnership are working together through the
Children & Young People’s Plan. As part of our
partnership working and in consultation with parents we have
developed a Parents’ Strategy that enables partners to take a more
planned and joined up approach to providing services that support
parents in the vital role of helping their children to be safe,
happy, healthy and to achieve their full potential.
The Strategy promotes the approach that all agencies and
organisations working with parents need to recognise parents as
equal partners in achieving the best outcomes for children and
their key role in shaping the services that are provided.
Our vision
We aim to achieve a future in which any parent in the City who
needs information, advice and support to help their children
achieve will know where to turn and be able to benefit from a range
of appropriate and accessible services.
We believe that:
- all parents need easy access to good up-to-date information on
the services available to them in bringing up their children
- parents should be able to take part in the planning and
evaluation of the services that they use
- the City of London and its partners must agree the most
important priorities to meet local need so that support for parents
can be tailored to their needs and available at the time they need
it
The Parents’ Strategy will enable us to:
- support parents in the vital role of helping their children to
be safe, happy and healthy and achieve their full
potential;
- provide a consistent approach to supporting parents;
and
- enable parents to be engaged in and contribute to services
provided for children and young people.
The Strategy is a statement of what we are committed
to achieving and how we are going to achieve it. It will be a
working document that highlights progress and current priorities
and will be supported by an action plan that will change and
develop as the work is taken forward. It will set out the
different levels of support available from universal through
preventative and early intervention services to the use of
compulsory measures. A particular aim of the strategy will be to
help close the gap in life chances between the most disadvantaged
children and others.
The Parents’ Strategy was completed in
April 2008. Click on the link to view the full
document
City of London Parents Strategy - April
2008.pdf (181kb)
We are currently working on producing a summary of the main
points of the strategy which will be made available as soon as it
si completed.
Find out how you can get involved
FYI Service have details of parent support services in the
City. Email
fyi@cityoflondon.gov.uk or
call them on 020 7332 1002.