Children and Young People's Services

Children and Young People's Services: a vision to encourage and enable all children and young people in Suffolk to aspire to and achieve their potential.

The Children and Young People's Services directorate brings together Suffolk County Council's education, youth and health services, and services for vulnerable children. Please click on the links below to find out more:


Our services

• Introduction to Children and Young People's Services
• Schools, education and learning services
• Youth Support Services
• Vulnerable children and health services

Delivery Agencies

• Delivery Agency Senior Management
• Integrated Children's Services Programme

Partnerships and Localities

• Suffolk Children's Trust Partnership (partnership management)
• Common Assessment Framework (CAF)
• Meeting the Needs - Social Care and Common Assessment Framework thresholds guidance

Planning and Performance

• Early Intervention and Prevention Strategy
• Second Suffolk Children and Young People's Plan 2009-11
• Performance Handbook, December 2007 Version
• Joint Area Review (JAR)
• Children and Young People's Data

Key projects

• Suffolk School Organisation Review
• Building Schools for the Future (BSF)
• Children's Centres and Extended Schools
• Suffolk Children's University
• The Mix, myplace project

Information and resources

• Infolink: children's service database
• Consultations with children and young people
• Children's services policies and guidance database