Our Vision : "A brighter future for all children and young people in South Tyneside"

Supporting our children

The welfare of children and young people is at the heart of a new partnership designed to support and protect them – and ensure they achieve their full potential. We want children, young people, parents and carers to have a say in how it will work.

South Tyneside Children and Young People's Alliance is one of the children's trust pathfinders set up as part of the government's Change for Children Programme, driven by the children Act 2004.

The Alliance brings together South Tyneside Primary Care Trust, South Tyneside Council (Life Long Learning and Leisure and Social Care and Health), South Tyneside (NHS) Health Care Trust, South Tyne and Wearside Mental Health Care Trust, the Youth Offending Service and Connexions.

The Children Act 2004 places a duty on these agencies, and others, to cooperate in order to improve the well-being of children, young people and families. This means they can pool budgets, develop integrated services and staff teams and develop systems to enable them to share information and work together more effectively.

The Alliance has established a Board and Stakeholder Group to manage, commission and monitor work in order to ensure that our long term aim of developing services that are community based and easy to access, often in one-stop shops, delivers a brighter future for all children and young people in South Tyneside.