Year Ahead Delivery Plan 2022
Outcome: Children get the best start in life
| Ref | Activity | Lead officer | Lead directorate | Timescales for delivery (from and to) | Lead Cabinet Member |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | Carry out targeted engagement with families to increase take up of early education. | Nathan Heath Interim Assistant Director Education and Skills |
Children and Young People’s Services | March 2023 | Cllr Cusworth |
| 3.2 | Work with Health and Wellbeing Board partners to develop a ‘Best Start and Beyond’ strategy. | Ben Anderson Director Public Health |
Adult Care, Housing and Public Health Children and Young People’s Services |
April 2023 | Cllr Roche Cllr Cusworth |
Outcome: Children and young people are safe from harm
| Ref | Activity | Lead officer | Lead directorate | Timescales for delivery (from and to) | Lead Cabinet Member |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.3 | Develop and launch the refreshed Early Help Strategy. | Children and Young People’s Services | October 2021 - February 2022 | Cllr Cusworth | |
| 3.4 | Implement KOOTH, the online mental health and wellbeing tool and monitor usage by young people. | David McWilliams Assistant Director Early Help and Family Engagement |
Children and Young People’s Services | November 2021 - October 2022 | Cllr Cusworth |
Outcome: Young people feel empowered to succeed and achieve their aspirations
| Ref | Activity | Lead officer | Lead directorate | Timescales for delivery (from and to) | Lead Cabinet Member |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.5 | Implement the Rotherham inclusion Pathway (a school-led, multi-agency approach to supporting young people at risk of exclusion). | Helen Sweaton, Joint Assistant Director Commissioning, Quality and Performance |
Children and Young People’s Services | October 2021 - July 2022 | Cllr Cusworth |
| Evaluate the current ‘team around the school’ project to establish the impact on the sample schools and their pupils. | Nathan Heath Interim Assistant Director Education and Skills |
Adult Care, Housing and Public Health Children and Young People’s Services |
January 2022 - July 2022 | Cllr Cusworth | |
| 3.6 | Implement the ‘Year of Reading’ programme and evaluate its success. | Nathan Heath Interim Assistant Director Education and Skills |
Children and Young People’s Services | January 2022- July 2023 | Cllr Cusworth |
| 3.7 | Deliver the Enterprise Adviser Network programme, ensuring 75% of schools and colleges are matched to an adviser from a local business and are demonstrating progress towards achieving the eight Gatsby benchmarks for good quality careers education information, advice and guidance. | Nathan Heath Interim Assistant Director Education and Skills |
Regeneration and Environment | March 2023 | Cllr Lelliott |
| 3.8 | Deliver the Business Education Alliance programme, with 33 SMEs engaging with schools and colleges to help raise aspirations through meaningful employer encounters. | Simon Moss Assistant Director Planning Regeneration and Transport |
Regeneration and Environment | December 2023 | Cllr Lelliott |
| 3.9 | Maximise Kickstart placements to provide employment opportunities for local, unemployed, young people’. | Lee Mann Assistant Director, Human Resources and Organisational Development |
Assistant Chief Executive's | September 2022 | Cllr Alam |
Outcome: Children and young people have fun things to do and safe places to go
| Ref | Activity | Lead officer | Lead directorate | Timescales for delivery (from and to) | Lead Cabinet Member |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3.10 | Work with children and young people across the borough to co-design the Children’s Capital of Culture 2025 programme. | Leanne Buchan Head of Service Creative Programming and Engagement |
Regeneration and Environment | August 2021 – May 2022 | Cllr Sheppard |
| 3.11 | Agree a new universal Youth offer including the contributions of both the Council and voluntary sector partners. | David McWilliams Assistant Director Early Help and Family Engagement |
Children and Young People’s Services | January 2023 | Cllr Cusworth |
| 3.12 | Complete delivery of the £100k Play Equipment replacement programme. | Leanne Buchan Head of Service Creative Programming and Engagement |
Regeneration and Environment | March 2023 | Cllr Sheppard |