Welcome to the JAR latest news page where over the coming months you can find out about the progress towards the inspection and find out what is new on the website.
JAR Briefing sessions - 13 August
Briefing sessions for all Oldham Children's Trust staff have now been scheduled. The sessions will inform you about the Joint Area Review and the findings from Analysis Week. Please view the times, dates and venues and attend one of the sessions.
Fourth Bee the Best newsletter published - 13 August
The fourth issue of the Bee the Best has just been published. This month Bee the Best has news on the YOS inspection, outcomes of Analysis week, staff briefing sessions, key achievements and looks at a pilot which encourages young people to train.
JAR Briefing notes - 25 July
Following the JAR analysis week, a set of briefing notes have been published and are now available to read. The briefing notes outline what the inspectors have decided to focus on and contain useful information that will help you to prepare for the inspection.
Third Bee the Best JAR newsletter published - 21 July
The third issue of Bee the Best has just been published and will inform you about what will happen during analysis week and other important aspects of work for the JAR. This month Bee the Best looks at our key achievements around safeguarding, helps you to prepare for the JAR inspection and looks at the new Children and Young People Plan 2008 - 2011 'One Future' - Changing for Children in Oldham.
Children and Young People Plan 2008 -2011 published - 4 July
The Children and Young People Plan 2008 - 2011: 'One Future' - Changing for Children In Oldham
The Children and Young People Plan is a high-level statutory plan for all services working with children, young people and their families in Oldham and covers a three year period from 2008-2011. The Plan contains the local context, some of our key achievements and importantly, our strategic priorities and actions going forward. It will enable us all to know where we're going, see where we as individuals and our services fit, and focus our resources and energies.
In developing this Plan, we have assessed local need through:
The Children and Young People Plan is our route map which we all need to read and understand; we should all know what we do well and what we need to improve. Our progress will be monitored through our performance management arrangements in order that we will know whether we are on course to achieve our mission: 'working together to ensure safe, successful, healthy and happy futures for all our children and young people'.
It is important that each of us are clear about the aims and objectives of the Oldham Children's Trust and how we fit into the wider picture, what is known as 'The Golden Thread'. As part of this, the Children and Young People Plan sets out our six overarching priorities, referred to as 'The Oldham Six'. We will continue to shape our work around these priorities and maintain a clear focus on the way in which we work together with all partners across the Children's Trust to achieve positive outcomes for all our children and young people. Together, we will continue to make a difference.
This Children and Young People Plan has been submitted to Ofsted as our self-assessment for the forthcoming Annual Performamce Assessment (APA) 2008, and will be a key document used by our inspectors in the Joint Area Review (JAR).
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