Photo: Community Grants Programme (Effie Fotaki)

The Children's Trust Board and Children and Young People's Stakeholder Forum have been in place since April 2009. They replaced the earlier children and young people's partnership arrangements.

• The Children's Trust Board provides the strategic overview and direction for integrated children and young people's services.
• The Children and Young People's Stakeholder Forum provides a platform for consultation, engagement and information sharing on children and young people's issues.

The meeting agendas, dates, membership and minutes can be accessed by clicking on the relevant links on the right of this page.

Review of the Children's Trust Board and Stakeholder Forum

In the context of the new Health and Wellbeing arrangements and the lifting of the statutory requirements by the present Government, the role and priorities of the Children's Trust Board and Stakeholder Forum are currently under review The work of the Children's Trust Board is underpinned by the aim of improving outcomes for children and young people.

Until April 2011 the Board's priorities of improving outcomes for children and young people were set out in the Children and Young People's Strategic Plan, and progress was reviewed annually. The Plan with the young people's version can be downloaded below.

Child Poverty and Family Wellbeing Plan

The Child Poverty and Family Wellbeing Plan is an implementation strand of the Hackney Sustainable Community Strategy. It focuses on what services can do to mitigate the impact of poverty on children and young people's outcomes so that they can thrive regardless of their economic circumstances. It also recognises the importance of services doing what they can to lift families out of poverty by supporting household incomes. This plan implements the recommendations of the Child Poverty and Family Wellbeing cross-cutting review which the Team Hackney Board tasked the Children's Trust Board with undertaking. The recommendations of the review can be downloaded below.

The Adviser for the Children's Trust Board is Pamela Baldwin who can be reached on

020 8356 3967 or email pamela.baldwin@hackney.gov.uk for more information.

Pamela Baldwin is also the interim Adviser for the Stakeholder Forum.