Enable all children, young people, and adults to maximise their capabilities and have control over their lives

This priority focuses on:

  • Reducing the social gradient in skills and qualifications.
  • Ensuring that schools, families, and communities work in partnership to improve outcomes and level the gradient in health, wellbeing and resilience of children and young people.
  • Improving the access and use of quality lifelong learning across the social gradient.

Background

The Marmot Review summarised the importance of addressing inequalities in education and skills ‘Inequalities in educational outcomes affect physical and mental health, as well as income, employment, and quality of life. The graded relationship between socioeconomic position and educational outcome has significant implications for subsequent employment, income, living standards, behaviours, and mental and physical health. To achieve equity from the start, investment in the early years is crucial’

What we know

There are a number of programmes of work and interventions that enable all children, young people, and adults to maximise their capabilities and have control over their lives recommendation which aim to:

  • Continue to narrow and close the gap in children and young people’s attainment.
  • Increase access and use of quality life-long learning opportunities across the social gradient.
  • Enable eligible children and young people to participate in positive enrichment activities and experiences with their peers.
  • Support children and young people’s emotional resilience, health, and well-being.
  • Promote home and road safety.

Legislation, Government guidance that support the enable all children, young people, and adults to maximise their capabilities and have control over their lives recommendation:

Links to service developments and strategies that support this recommendation:

Indicators

  • Closing the attainment gap between free school meals and non-free school meals
  • Educational attainment by key stage
  • Apprenticeships
  • Young people not in employment, education or training (NEET)
  • Pupil absences
  • Support for children’s mental health
  • Children in care outcomes

Programmes and activities

  • Supporting Families Programme- Intensive Family Support
  • Family Hubs
  • Coventry Holiday and Food Programme
  • Building Better Opportunities Programme
  • Coventry SEND Offer
  • Mental Health Support Team (MHSTs)
  • Tier 2: Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health
  • Kooth
  • Dimensions of Health and Wellbeing
  • Positive Choices
  • West Midlands Fire Service Fire Safety Tutoring
  • West Midlands Fire Service Fire Cadets
  • Targeted Youth Activities
  • Safe to talk
  • West Midlands Fire Service Sparks programme: ‘Your Choice’ on the road and ‘Your Choice Feel the Heat’ packages
  • The Local SEND Offer
  • Positive Parenting
  • School Nursing
  • Coventry Library Service
  • Your Vision Your Future
  • Boost Programme (Resettlement Programme)
  • Coventry Women's Partnership
  • Statutory Health Assessments and Health Plan for children in care
  • Coventry Skills Strategy Action Groups: 1 – Raising Overall Skills Levels and Aspiration, Action Group 2 Progression Pathways and Action Group 3 Communities, Inclusion and Support for Highest Needs

Delivery partners

  • Coventry City Council
  • Positive Choices
  • Positive Youth Foundation
  • Compass
  • West Midlands Fire Service
  • Coventry Youth Justice
  • West Midlands Police
  • Police and Crime Commissioner
  • Family Hubs
  • Domestic Abuse Services
  • SENDIASS
  • Kooth
  • CWPT
  • Voluntary sector youth projects such as Guiding Young Minds (GYM)
  • Migration Team CCC
  • Positive Youth Foundation
  • Foleshill Womens Training
  • Coventry Refugee and Migrant Centre
  • Coventry Family Health and Lifestyle Service (0-19 years)
  • Coventry and Warwickshire Integrated Care System
  • Coventry and Warwickshire MIND
  • Children in Care Health Team
  • Public Health Team CCC

How we will measure progress

  • Attainment 8 score
  • Progress 8 score
  • KS 1, 2 attainment and progress measures
  • FE attainment and progress measures
  • 16 – 17 NEETs (including not known)
  • School attendance/ exclusion
  • Disadvantaged Students* Entering Apprenticeship
  • Overall qualification levels for the city
  • School Gatsby Benchmarks (quality of careers support in schools)
  • Adult Education Budget enrolment, completion and destination data
  • West Midlands Fire Service information
  • NHS children and young people access rate for mental health services
  • Emotional wellbeing and mental health real-life case studies
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