The East Staffordshire Children's Trust brings together key organisations from across East Staffordshire to focus on improving the lives of children and young people across the borough.

Background

East Staffordshire Children's Trust Board met for the first time in November 2006 and now meets on a bi-monthly basis. Regular updates are received at each meeting from East Staffordshire Community and Learning Partnerships and progress with ContactPoint and the Common Assessment Framework in East Staffordshire. Updates are also received from both the Staffordshire Children's Trust and Staffordshire County Council's Children and Life Long Learning Directorate.

You can find minutes, agendas and papers for each meeting at the bottom of the page.

The Board are responsible for implementing and monitoring the East Staffordshire Children and Young People's Plan.

The plan identifies the following priorities for East Staffordshire:

• Reduce Teenage Conceptions and Sexually Transmitted Infections
• Halt the rise in the prevalence of obesity and overweight children
• Reduction in substance misuse including alcohol among young people
• Improved access to CAMHS (Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services) services for children, young people and their families
• Reduction in road traffic accidents involving children and young people (0 - 16 years)
• Develop parenting strategy
• Increase the number of children achieving expected levels of achievement at Key Stage 2, 3 and 4
• Increased access to leisure, sport and cultural activities
• Support the future development of Community and Learning Partnerships
• Increased number of children and young people involved in consultation. Appropriate actions to be taken as a result in order that they have an influence on service delivery
• Increased number of young people involved in voluntary and community action
• Reduction in the number of young people in serious housing need
• Increased number of young people post 16 and 17 involved in further education, training and employment

East Staffordshire Children's Trust Board is one of eight district children's trusts boards across Staffordshire. You can find out more about the other district children's trusts and the county children's trust by clicking the logo opposite.