Photo: Community Grants Programme (Effie Fotaki)

Hackney Fact: In the last five years Hackney Schools' GCSE results have improved by 23% - twice as much as the national improvement of 11.7%.

The vision of this partnership is to ensure that children and young people stay healthy and safe, achieve their potential and make a positive contribution.

The key local priorities the partnership has identified are:

• Improving educational achievement, particularly for underperforming minority groups
• Addressing childhood obesity
• Reducing infant mortality
• Reducing teenage pregnancy
• Addressing worklessness for 18-24 year olds

The chair of the Children & Young People Partnership is Councillor Rita Krishna, Cabinet Member for Children’s Services.

The partnership includes key statutory organisations such as the London Borough of Hackney, The Learning Trust, Metropolitan Police Authority, City & Hackney PCT and selected representatives of the community and voluntary sector.

The Team Hackney Adviser for the Children and Young People Partnership is Atiya Munir who can be reached on 020 8356 3307, atiya.munir@hackney.gov.uk for more information.