The Isle of Wight Children and Young Peoples Trust is the Key Delivery Partnership responsible for leading and delivering the Inspiring Island theme of Eco Island.
The trust has a responsibility for delivering the children and young people’s plan to improve outcomes for children and young people.
The priorities of the plan identified by Island children and young people are:
The trust is comprised of representatives of all the partner organisations that have a role to play in improving outcomes for children and young people.
The trust has established a voluntary and community sector network for all those working with children, young people and families to which a Council lead officer is seconded to support. The Council has set up a Youth Council and participation group of young people drawn from a wide variety of groups involving young people and young people led.
The trust holds an executive to account for improvement in outcomes for young people. The executive has five outcome working groups based on each of the five outcomes in the Government’s “Every Child Matters” plan, which are matched to the five priorities in the children and young people’s plan. These working groups are responsible for the performance management of the delivery of the children and young people’s plan.
The five working groups focus on
There is also more detailed information about the childrens trust and the children and young peoples plan here.
A number of headline Eco Island targets agreed by the trust can be found here. Others can be found here.
The terms of reference for the children and young peoples trust give information about its role, structure, intentions, membership and links with the wider Island. The terms of reference can be found by clicking here.
If you would like to comment on Eco Island or would like more information, please email info@eco-island.org.uk or visit the Eco Island contacts page.
