Change for Children (C4C)
Change for children (C4C) and young people is a new approach to the well-being of children and young people from birth to age 19. In Walsall this means working to improve the lives of over 60,000 children and young people by ensuring that we will:
- Reduce further the current inequalities in the health of children and young people, in particular by working to lower the levels of infant mortality and teenage pregnancy and halt the rate of increase in obesity
- Recognise the importance parents play in children’s lives and support them in ensuring children and young people feel safe at home, at school and in their communities, with a focus on reducing bullying and helping children to have more stability in their lives
- Ensure that children both achieve to their maximum potential and enjoy their childhood and youth, with better school facilities and greater educational attainment
- Give our young people the opportunity to make a positive contribution to their community, increasing their involvement in decision making processes
- Seek to maximise the employment and economic well-being of young people in a regenerated borough, reducing the numbers who are not in education, employment or training, and reducing child poverty.
This new approach will involve the council working together with partner agencies to provide services for children and young people. Walsall Council is responsible for leading this change programme locally, and is doing this through a partnership of children and young people's organisations, known as the Children and Young People's Partnership.
Change for Children (C4C) aims to create better services by ensuring that these organisations work together effectively to support children to:
- Be healthy: enjoying good physical and mental health and living a healthy lifestyle
- Stay safe: being protected from harm and neglect and growing up able to look after themselves
- Enjoy and achieve: getting the most out of life and developing broad skills for adulthood
- Make a positive contribution: to the community and to society and not engaging in anti-social or offending behaviour
- Achieve economic well-being: people are financially and materially secure
Children's area partnerships are helping to move forward the C4C agenda.
This page was last updated on 19 June 2009