Decision details

Every Day Matters: Kent County Council’s Children and Young People’s Strategic Plan 2013-2016.

Decision needed:

To approve the adoption of the draft Every Day Matters: Kent County Council’s Children and Young People’s Strategic Plan 2013-2016, as the overarching framework for children’s services.

How the decision  relates to BS4K and Corporate Objectives

The overarching framework provides a single vision, priorities and shared understanding of need and performance across children’s services. Specifically improving outcomes for children and young people

in relation to:

• delivering corporate objectives of service transformation
• integrated and joined-up services and
• better use of resources.

Impact/costs and risks of proposed decision

The related implementation plans and associated service transformation provide basis for handling costs and risks issues. The decision may reduce risks, if any, of KCC being criticised by an external scrutiny body such as Ofsted.