Children are invited to design cover of new children’s plan
Children and young people across the county are being invited to enter a competition to design the cover of a new children and young people's plan for Herefordshire.
The plan has been put together by Herefordshire's Children's Trust and spells out how the services children and young people receive are to be run over the next three years. Included in the plan is the work undertaken by schools, health services, the council, police, youth offending services, Connexions and other community and voluntary groups who provide children's services. The aim is to work in partnership to address key priorities that are seen as critical for children and young people in Herefordshire.
The priorities are based around the themes of being healthy, staying safe, enjoying life, doing well at school or college and being a good citizen. They include ways of tackling obesity, proposals to improve the county's poor dental health record, ways of dealing with e-safety and cyber bullying, improving access to activities using community transport and continuing to improve educational performance.
A draft plan has been published for consultation, see the Children and Young People's Plan page for details. Members of the public, together with all the groups and organisations that work with children and young people are invited to comment on the plan by March 3 2008.
Councillor Jenny Hyde, cabinet member for children and young people, said: "This plan is an important piece of work because it spells out how the county's organisations will work together to make sure that services are provided around the individual child or young person. We included the views and ideas of young people when we put the draft plan together and are keen for them to respond to the consultation as well.
"Once approved, the plan will be widely circulated around the county, so getting the cover right is important - it needs to be easily recognisable as well as embrace the themes within the plan.
"We are inviting children and young people of all ages to be creative and have a go at designing a front cover. There are some great prizes to be won, including vouchers and money, with a first prize of £100. We hope that we get a good response to our competition, and that children and young people will look at our plans and tell us what they think of them."
The deadline for applications is 29 February 2008. A panel of judges consisting of members of the Children's Trust Shadow Board (a board of young people) and Councillor Jenny Hyde will announce the winners during April. A prize-giving event will be held in early June where all the winning entries will be exhibited.
