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We have produced a toolkit to help our partners communicate the Children's Plan. The toolkit includes factsheets on key topics in the Plan that we want to get further views on, and digital resources to help publicise the plan.
We have also produced an implementation pack of materials to help partners working with children and young people as the commitments set out in the Children’s Plan are taken forward.
The Children's Plan: building brighter futures
The Government wants to make this country the best place in the world for children and young people to grow up. The Children’s Plan sets out how the Department for Children, Schools and Families is going to achieve that – by putting the needs of families, children and young people at the centre of everything we do.
You can download the full Children's Plan or a summary here.
- The Children's Plan: building brighter futures (586kb, PDF)
- Summary of the Children's Plan (186kb, PDF)
- Building brighter futures: A young person's guide to The Children's Plan (1.82mb PDF)
- Building brighter futures: The Children's Plan for families (2.43mb PDF)
In drawing up the Plan we listened to parents, teachers and professionals, as well as to children and young people themselves. They told us what they thought was working, and what more they thought needed to be done.
So the Children's Plan will:
- strengthen support for all families during the formative early years of their children's lives
- take the next steps in achieving world class schools and an excellent education for every child
- involve parents fully in their children's learning
- help to make sure that young people have interesting and exciting things to do outside of school
- and provide more places for children to play safely.
It also means a new leadership role for Children's Trusts in every area, a new role for schools as the centre of their communities, and more effective links between schools, the NHS and other children's services so that together they can engage parents and tackle all the barriers to the learning, health and happiness of every child.
We are setting ourselves ambitious new goals for 2020, and we will report back on the progress we are making on the Plan in a year's time.
Equality Impact Assessment
You can download Equality Impact Assessments relating to the Children’s Plan here.
