This section brings together the key plans within Education, Housing, Health and Care and the Community and Mental Health Trust. All of these plans directly or indirectly involve a number of agencies (Education and Culture, Housing Health and Care, Health Authority, Police, Probation and other portfolios within Telford and Wrekin Council.)

All of the plans in this section are designed to set out how support to children and young people will be delivered and how that support will be improved to meet need. The various agencies have worked hard since Local Government reorganisation in April 1998 to ensure that plans are co-ordinated and are supportive of the corporate priorities of Telford and Wrekin Council in:

• Promoting the interests of Children and Young People
• Improving Prosperity and combating Poverty and Social Exclusion
• Promoting a Safe, Clean and Sustainable Environment

The co-ordination of plans to provide synergy and to remove duplication is aided by the close liaison of senior officers and elected representatives through the joint collaborative structures of the Joint Member Board, Joint Executive Group and Joint Strategic Group. (See arrangements for joint planning and partnership in Telford and Wrekin)

The key plans which support the work of the Behaviour Support Plan are:

Quality Protects.
Quality Protects was originally launched in September 1998 as a 3 year programme aimed at 'Transforming the Management and Delivery of Social Serivces' to Children in need and their families. This is now the key planning document, reviewed annually, which targets the work of Housing Health and Care in Telford and Wrekin.

Children Services Plan.
The Children's Services Plan provides an opportunity to analyse the various needs and pressures forced by children and Young People and their families within Telford and Wrekin. The plan acts as a signpost to other more detailed and specific plans and strategies concerning children and families.

Youth offending Plan.
The Youth Justice Plan is essentially a local planning tool and is informed by the partner agencys' planning processes. In partnership with Education Services the Youth Offending Services aim to support the inclusion of young people by providing early intervention programmes aimed at preventing disaffection and the reducing school exclusions

Surestart Plan.
This extensive document was sent out to schools in Autumn 1999. An outline summary of the plan is provided here. For further information contact the Project Manager Dylan Harrison on 01952 504923

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Strategy.
This plan sets out the jointly agreed strategy for child and adolescent mental health services. The plan goes across both the Telford and Wrekin and Shropshire local authorities and includes Education, Social Services and the Health Authority and the NHS Trust. The main agency to support the strategy with Telford and Wrekin is the Child and Family Service based at the Glebe Centre in Wellington. An updated staffing list and contact telephone numbers can be found at the back of the plan.

SEN and Social Inclusion Development Plan.
This shows the proposed developments, together with timescales and lead officers, for the provision for special educational needs and social inclusion within Telford and Wrekin.

Reducing Teenage Pregnancy and Supporting teenage parents.
Awaiting final approval.

Education Development Plan.
The LEA statement of proposals, including targets, for education standards and school improvement. This is a three year plan which is reviewed with targets set and approved annually.

Early Years and Child Care Plan.
The Telford & Wrekin early years development and childcare plan seeks to support the development of integrated early education paces for children aged 3 and 4, and childcare 0-14 it also seeks to address the twenty nine targets covering early education and childcare places, recruitment, raising quality, standards and training, quality assurance, special needs, equal opportunities, choice and diversity, information strategy and better partnership working. This is available in two parts: a strategy document and an implementation plan.