Looked after children and care leavers
The current strategy builds on the 2018-21 strategy and sets out Nottinghamshire’s looked after children and care leavers strategic partnership’s ambition and priorities for the next three years.
It is a joint to commitment by partners to work together to ensure all looked after children and care leavers from and living in Nottinghamshire the opportunity, and the support they need, to be the best they possibly can be.
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As a partnership we are ambitious for our looked after children and care leavers and we will continue to work together to ensure that they have access to the same opportunities, support and outcomes that we would want for our own children.
The county council and the seven Nottinghamshire district and borough councils are 'corporate parents' of all looked after children in Nottinghamshire, and all partners have a range of statutory responsibilities towards children in care and care leavers. Partners to this strategy include housing, children’s social care, adult social care and health, health, education, further education, higher education, D2N2, East Midlands Chamber of Commerce, Nottinghamshire Futures, Nottinghamshire Police, National Probation Service and the Department of Work and Pensions.
At the heart of the strategy are the lived experiences of children and young people. They have informed the priorities, telling us what matters most to them. Their views and wishes will drive both our priorities and our behaviours through the course of the next three years as we implement this strategy in partnership with them.
In implementing this strategy, each partner organisation will be asked to pledge how they will meet the new strategic commitments in the way that they provide services, and in the decisions they take. We will work with young people to develop this into a partnership pledge, setting out what all children and young people in care and care leavers can expect from organisations supporting them.
How will we know if we have made a difference?
This strategy has been approved and signed by the partnership. It was formally approved by the county council’s children and young people’s committee (7 March 2022). Progress will be monitored by the partnership’s Board, which will be held accountable to Nottinghamshire’s Children in Care Council through regular updates, and also to the children and young people’s committee and governance structures within partner organisations.
