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Children and Families Partnership Board

The East Riding Children and Families Partnership Board has the senior partnership responsibility for policy, strategy and achievement in services for children, young people and their families. It champions effective partnership working, enabling local statutory and voluntary agencies to recognise shared priorities and to work together effectively, to deliver a real difference to the outcomes of children, young people and their families.

The Board embeds the voice of children and young people, parents and carers throughout its work. Their involvement is vital to drive meaningful change when making decisions that profoundly impact their lives.

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What is the Children and Families Partnership Board?

The East Riding Children and Families Partnership Board brings together leaders from local partners of statutory and voluntary agencies who support children, young people and families. It covers the work of organisations at every level, from the development of an overall Children and Families Strategic Plan to the day-to-day delivery of integrated services.

The Partnership Board looks at what national policy changes mean to us locally so we can best support children, young people, their families and carers here in the East Riding.

The Children and Families Partnership Board supports and encourages all services whether statutory, voluntary or private, to work together in partnership by:

  • setting the vision and strategic direction for the services for children and young people in the East Riding
  • ensuring services are delivered to improve outcomes
  • supporting collaboration through partnership working at all levels
  • producing a Children and Young People's Strategic Plan and reviewing progress.

What is the shared vision of East Riding Children and Families Partnership Board?

Made up of the statutory and voluntary agencies who support children, young people and their families, including educational settings, the partnership Board has a shared vision: For all children in the east riding to have the best start in life:

To be safe and grow up in a loving home, to be equipped with the skills and values to achieve their potential and thrive.

What are the East Riding Children and Families Partnership Board Priorities?

To deliver our ambition, the Children’s and Families Partnership Board has agreed 4 priorities.

The partnership aims to ensure that children and young people, with the support of their family:

  • enjoy good physical, mental and social health and wellbeing
  • are safe in different environments
  • develop the skills and knowledge to achieve their full potential
  • receive the right support, at the right time, in the right place.

What are the East Riding Children and Families Partnership Board Commitments?

Partners agreed a set of commitments and statements that they would sign up to for the East Riding:

  • Always actively listen to children, young people, and their families
  • Be accountable and take collective responsibility
  • Work closely and robustly together to deliver agreed outcomes
  • Actively consider the wider conditions of living at all stages.

What are the benefits of the partnership board?

Benefits include:

  • delivering a unique programme of partnership work tackling cross-cutting challenging issues, improving outcomes for children and families across the area
  • valuing the role that all play and respecting the contribution of all partners through a participative approach enabling informed decision-making
  • ensuring that everything we do, and the work of our partners, is informed by the views of children, young people and families themselves.

How is the Children and Families Partnership Board made up?

Collaboration is at the heart of the Children & Families Partnership Board. Children & Families Partnership Board members include:

  • Community VISION
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • East Riding Community Safety Partnership
  • East Riding of Yorkshire Council
  • East Riding Safeguarding Adults Board
  • East Riding Early Years Education, Schools and Colleges
  • National Probation Service
  • Healthwatch East Riding of Yorkshire
  • HEY Smile Foundation
  • Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board
  • Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust
  • Humberside Police.

Is there a Children and Young People's Strategic Plan?

Yes. East Riding of Yorkshire Children and Families Strategic Plan 2025-2030 is available to download via the link below:

East Riding of Yorkshire Children and Families Strategic Plan 2025-30 (pdf 22.6mb)

The East Riding of Yorkshire Children and Families Strategic Plan outlines our overarching 5-year ambition, priorities and commitments to support and improve the outcomes for children and young people across the area.

The strategy has been developed collaboratively with our partners, who are keenly invested in realising its outcomes and all associated work involved. This is centred on extensive engagement and consultation with children, young people and families who play a crucial role in shaping the lives of children and young people. All their insights, experiences and perspectives are vital in ensuring that services are responsive, inclusive, and effective and are important to the work of this partnership.

To enable this to happen, we will do the following:

  • Ensure the voice of children and young people is represented in both strategic planning and service delivery across the partnership
  • Support families in making choices for children and young people
  • Continue to listen to children and young people and their families and respond to their feedback
  • Continue to challenge and support all educational settings to improve outcomes
  • Minimise barriers to learning, especially for those with a vulnerability
  • Ensure children and young people have access to advice needed to support the progression to adulthood and independence
  • Ensure that this plan informs the commissioning of health and care services locally, adopting a partnership approach to improve health outcomes for children and young people
  • Work with families most affected by poverty and its wider determinants
  • Direct opportunities for alignment of resources
  • Actively engage with other strategic theme boards
  • Regularly review of all services for children and young people to ensure that they continue to make a difference to their lives
  • Ensure effective safeguarding, especially for the most vulnerable.

What other strategies support outcomes for children and young people?

There is a range of plans and strategies that support the delivery of the Children and Young People's Strategic Plan. The most important ones are held on the Children and Young People Strategy Page.

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