The Portsmouth Children's Trust Board exists to

• provide strategic leadership to secure improved outcomes for Children and Young People
• develop a strategic framework for the direction of Portsmouth's Children & Young People's Plan (CYPP)
• be accountable for key inter-agency decisions that relate to children’s services 
• promote and apply agreed Children’s Trust ways of working 
• negotiate and secure political support for the CYPP.

Every employee of Portsmouth City Council and its partner agencies has a responsibility to act as a Corporate Parent for all of our looked after children. To find out more read the summary of our Corporate Parenting Strategy. If you would like a copy of the full strategy booklet, or any other information, please email corporate.parenting@portsmouthcc.gov.uk.

 The Parenting Support Strategy for Portsmouth aims to identify how best to prepare and support parents, and those who work with them, in Portsmouth and to involve parents in the design, development and delivery of services. 

• Overview  (7 page PDF file)
• Background -(54 page Word document)

Portsmouth Children and Young People’s Plan 2009-2011

July 2009: the Children's Trust Board has approved a revised version of the Portsmouth Children and Young People's Plan (CYPP).

Please see below the detailed plan for 2010-2011

1 - Improving Health

1.1 - Teenage Conceptions

1.2 – Substance Misuse

1.3 – Obesity

1.4 - Breastfeeding

2 - Improve Emotional Wellbeing

3 - Improve Outcomes for Children with Disabilities

4 - Improve Educational Attainment

4.1 – Early Years Plan

4.2 – School Age Attainment

4.3 – Raising Attainment by 19 

5 - Improve access to education

5.1 - School Absence

5.2 - Fixed Term Exclusions

5.3 - Anti Bullying

6 - Promote Pro-Social Behaviour

6.1 – Youth Offending

6.2 – Domestic Violence

7 - Enabling Young People to Engage and Enjoy

7.1 – NEET

7.2 – Take up of positive activities

7.3 – Supporting Young Carers

8 - Improve Outcomes for Looked After Children (LAC) 

Cross cutting strategies

9 - Parenting Strategy

10 - Prevention and Early Intervention Strategy

11 - Safeguarding Strategy

12 - Children’s Workforce Strategy

13 - Improving Governance and Commissioning

Service Evaluation:

Theory of Change Model Documentation

The purpose of the Joint Commissioning Group (JCG) is to

• lead strategic commissioning for all children in Portsmouth 
• ensure delivery and implementation of the Children and Young People’s Plan (CYPP)
• take responsibility for the overall performance management of the CYPP
• ensure cost effective service delivery.

In order to improve the commissioning of services to improve outcomes for children, contributors to the CYPP monitor the results of city wide data collation and analysis. Importance is also attached to the views of children and young people; for example those collected through the annual Tellus surveys.

The research section offers an electronic library containing robust research studies that consider ‘what works’ in terms of interventions with children and young people. Commentaries on some published research are available, plus a glossary of research terms and links to other useful websites.