Welcome to Lincolnshire Children and Young People's Strategic Partnership website. This website is a partnership website for people working with children and young people and their families in Lincolnshire. It is designed to keep you informed of developments which will help you in your work.
Who is the Partnership?
The Children and Young People's Strategic Partnership (CYPSP) is the Children's Services commissioning body.
The Partnership's Aims
As a partnership, we aim to draw together the Every Child Matters (ECM) programme which focuses on delivering the five key outcomes (please see the five symbols above) and the Educational Standards agenda which focuses on schools and attainment.
We hope you find this site useful. Please contact us with any comments. You can find our details in the Contact Us section of this site.
If you are a parent please click here to the Lincolnshire County Council I am a parent page.
If you are a young person please click here to go to the Lincolnshire Connexions site.
Click here for the commissioning arrangements, vision, terms of reference and membership of the CYPSP.
Latest News
February / March 2009
Welcome
The Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership (CYPSP) would like to welcome Emma Brooks to the post of administrative support. Emma will be supporting Clive Yates in the business administration of the Partnership.
If you have any queries regarding the administration of the CYPSP, you can contact Emma on emma.brooks@lincolnshire.gov.uk. Alternatively, please call 01522 553346.
Reminder - New post
The Children and Young People’s Strategic Partnership would also like to welcome Sue Westcott (nee Warboys) to the post of Children’s Services Assistant Director of the Stay Safe outcome lead.
Sue joins Lincolnshire County Council at the end of March from Bedfordshire County Council where she is currently Assistant Director of Social Care.
Play sites open across the county
Lincolnshire County Council has been successful in a Playbuilder bid which will bring £1,131,000 of funding to the county for fixed play equipment.
The funding will see play sites open across the county in the North Kesteven, Boston, South Kesteven, West Lindsey, South Holland and East Lindsey districts by 31st March 2009 with more sites opening across the county in the next two years.
The play sites will be free, open to the public and will provide play for all children as part of a three year investment from the Department for Children Schools and Families (DCSF).
Children's centre campaign
A new campaign has been launched to raise awareness of the services and support available to parents and carers at the county’s 36 children’s centres. The campaign runs from 19th January until 5th April and sees a series of radio adverts on Lincs FM. Billboards and posters are also being used to advertise the centres across the county.
Lincolnshire THINK Teenage Text Service Success
A text service that was launched by the Lincolnshire Tackling Teenage Pregnancy team is being piloted in London this April.
Enfield, Kensington and Chelsea, and Hammersmith and Fulham boroughs are piloting the THINK text service after its success in Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire last year.
The service allows teenagers to text an advisor anonymously for confidential information and advice about a range of issues, including relationships and sex, how to resist peer pressure, puberty, and where to go for local help and support.
Teenagers aged 13 to 19 simply text 84465 which spells out the word THINK on their mobile phone keypad.
Jan Lowis, Teenage Pregnancy Project Manager, said: “THINK has proved to be really successful in providing advice and support to young people in Lincolnshire.
"We're a large rural county so access to traditional services can sometimes be difficult for young people. Text messaging is an ideal way of communicating with them because it is both portable and accessible."
Lincolnshire Youth Cabinet elections
Young people in the county's schools, libraries, and Connexions centres have been busy voting in this year's Lincolnshire Youth Cabinet election.
Voting slips are still coming in but it is estimated that thousands of young people voted between 23rd-27th February for candidates standing for the available seats in the East Lindsey, West Lindsey, South Kesteven and City of Lincoln districts.
Candidates will be informed on 17th March and the results will be announced on 20th March. The successful applicants will sit in the cabinet for two years before they must stand for re-election if they wish to continue.
For more information on the Cabinet please contact Andrew Garbutt on andrew.garbutt@lincolnshire.gov.uk or 01522 550757. Alternatively, more information can be found on www.c4yp.co.uk after 20th March.
Out of hours Emergency Duty Team has a new number - 01522 782333
Please make a note of the new out of hours Emergency Duty Team telephone number - 01522 782333. An emergency is something that cannot safely wait until the next working day so please ensure that you share it amongst colleagues.
Calls will be answered by a trained customer adviser who, if necessary, will pass details onto a social worker from the Emergency Duty Team.
Please note the out of hours Emergency Duty Team are only available to deal with social work emergencies that arise outside of normal working hours.
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