The Children’s Regional Partnership Board began in March 2022 to look specifically at issues that affect children, young people and families in North Wales.
We’re responsible for a wide range of issues facing different age groups from babies to young adults. Our priorities include children’s mental health, disabled children, young people cared for by their local authority and preventing violence against children. To address these, we can draw on a range of experiences as our group includes representatives from children’s social care, health, education and police.
Every two or three meetings the board meet in person for a development session, and we share what we discussed on our blog. You can read about the most recent meetings by following the links below.
Mission statement
The North Wales Children’s Regional Partnership Board:
- doing what matters for children and their families
- collaborating and working together
- demonstrating leadership
- enabling change within organisations
Guiding values and principles
It is important to the group that the Children’s Regional Partnership Board:
- makes evidence-based decisions
- works together, fostering a collaborative culture
- is inclusive, bringing together all those who work to support young people
- communicates clearly and openly
- always keeps the interests of the child at the heart of its thinking.
All our work is based on children’s rights as set out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). These include the right to education, health, access to play and leisure opportunities, to take part in decisions about you and to be safe.
We use the guiding principles of the NYTH/NEST framework for improving mental health and well-being. This includes giving trusted adults, those closest to the child, easy access to expertise to support them to ‘hold on’ to children when they can instead of ‘referring on’. And where more specialist support is needed, we want there to be ‘no wrong door’. New ways of working will involve children, young people and their families and be based on what matters to them with their well-being supported across education and through safe and supportive communities.
The Right Door
The Right Door is our plan for how we achieve the principle of ‘no wrong door’ for children, young people and families in North Wales. Wherever you go to find support – at school, a community, service, social service, or health service, you’ll get help.