Every month following on from the Children and Young People's Strategic Partnership and Development Board meetings a Strategic Newsletter in produced to inform YOW members about what is happening at a Strategic Level.
The newsletter can be viewed below in pdf or publisher format. If you have any issues or concerns which need to be raised at a strategic level contact Stephen Dodd at YOW on 01902 877545.
2013 Strategic Newsletters
 
January 2013 pdf, publisher 

• Wolverhampton Youth Zone
• Youth Service Scrutiny Review
• Families in Focus
• Making the most of your MAST area
• Strategic Representation
• Youth Council Elections
• Closure of YOW's Safer Recruitment Service, getting CRB checks done and changes to Disclosure & Barring Scheme
• Peer Review of Safeguarding and Looming Ofsted

2011 Strategic Newsletters
July 2011 pdf, publisher

• Children and young People's Plan, Children's Trusts and Shadow Health and Well-Being Boards
• Ofsted Inspection of Safeguarding and Looked After Children in Wolverhampton-June 2011
• Thresholds - how best to meet the needs of children & young people

 
November pdf, publisher

• Wolverhampton City Council's draft budget strategy 2012-17
• Information Sharing
• Corporate Parenting 
• Safeguarding - The role of the Local Authority Designated Officer
• Thresholds Policy
• Targeted Youth Support 

2010 Strategic Newsletters
February-March pdf, publisher

• Wolverhampton Children's Trust
• Children and Young People's Plans 2010-2011 and 2011-2014
• Multi Agency Support Teams (MAST)
• Aiming High for Disabled Children (AHDC)
• Integrated and Targeted Youth Support
• The Wolverhampton Compact
• EPIC Youth Cafe

April pdf, publisher

• Mental Health & Psychological Well-Being Services
• Workforce Strategy Partners Programme
• Targeted Youth Support
• Safeguarding Update
• Children and Young People's Plan 2011-2014 timetable
• Strategy and Development Board Meetings

May/June pdf, publisher

• Demonstrating and developing participation
• Co-ordinating Peer Support -Young people at the Centre
• Multi-Agency Support Team (MAST) Update
• Integrated Working
• Targeted Youth Support (TYS)
• News from the coalition government
• Training for frontline staff on gangs and gang related risk

August/September pdf, publisher

• Children's Trusts
• Children and Young People's Plan (CYP Plan)
• Big Lottery 'Youth In Focus' fund
• ContactPoint Shut Down
  The "Big Society" - what is it all about
• A voice for the voluntary and community sector in developing the Children's Workforce
• Ofsted

2009 Strategic Newsletters
January pdf, publisher

• Meeting Dates
• Health Related Behaviour
• My Place Proposal
• One Children's Workforce

February pdf, publisher

• Child Poverty
• Healthy Eating
• The Youth Cafe
• Aiming Higher for Disabled Children
• CAF Evaluation
• Review of the CYPSP
• Contact Point 

April pdf, publisher

• ISA
• Contact Point
• Review of the CYPSP

May pdf, publisher

• Voluntary Sector Representation
• Sally's Leaving
• My Place
• Free School Meals
• The Youth Cafe

July pdf, publisher

• The Youth Cafe
• Child Poverty
• Free School Meals

September pdf, publisher

• Young People at the Centre Peer Support
• Sex and Relationships Education
• Preventing Violent Extremism
• Connexions
• Voluntary Sector Representation

October pdf, publisher

• External funding applications
• Intergrated working/CAF 
• Child Poverty Challenge Group
• Voluntary Sector Representation

December pdf, publisher

• New government guidance on Children and young people's Trust
• Children and Young People Plans 2010-2011 and 2011-2014
• Youth Cafe update
• Common Assessment Framework - evaluation
• Representation at Children & Young People's Strategic Partnership Boards
• Criminal Records Bureau Checks
• The Independent Safeguarding Authority
• Third Sector Partnership
• Funding Cuts
• Youth Elections
• Guns and Gangs

 
2008 Strategic Newsletters
January pdf, publisher

• Young People at the Centre
• Big Lottery Children's Play Programme Outcome
• The Children's Plan

March pdf, publisher

• Youth Cafe
• Health Related Behaviour Survey
• The Local Area Agreement
• Home Safety
• Targeted Youth Support

April pdf, publisher

• Flight of the Flamingos-Child Poverty
• The Wolverhampton Targeted Youth Support Strategy

May pdf, publisher

• Newly Appointed Councillors
• Play
• My Place
• Local Area Agreement

September pdf, publisher

• Welcome Back
• CAMHS Strategy
• Youth Cafe
• Local Democracy Campaign
• Robbery Action Plan
• NEET Figures
• DCSF Visit

October pdf, publisher

• Supporting Children's Model & Safeguarding
• Young People at the Centre Project Evaluation
• Youth Crime Action Plan
• Tellus3 Survey

 
2007 Strategic Newsletters 
April pdf, publisher 

• Welcome to the Strategy Newsletter
• Be Safe in Wolverhampton
• The Children's Workforce Development
• The Common Assessment Framework
• The Teenage Pregnancy Strategy
• The Draft Maternity Strategy

May pdf, publisher

• Contact Point
• Young People in the City Update
• The Joint Area Review 
• The Wolverhampton Housing Strategy

June pdf, publisher

• Contact Point
• Children and Adolescent Mental Health
• Integrated Contracts
• Young People in the City Update
• Pushed into the Shadows
• Councillors and Cabinet Members
• Training Needs Assessment

July pdf, publisher

• The Development of a Parenting Services Quality Mark
• Teenage Pregnancy
• Fixed Penalty Notices for Young People
• 16-17 Housing Protocol

August pdf, publisher

• Joint Area Review - Results
• Young People in the City Update
• Voluntary Sector Support Strategy
• Children's Workforce Development

September pdf, publisher

• Voluntary Sector Support Strategy
• Children's Fund Continuation
• Review of the Children and Young Peoples Plan

October pdf, publisher

• Local Area Neighbourhood Arrangements
• Common Assessment Training & Update
• Housing Needs Study 2007

November pdf, publisher

• The New Local Area Agreement
• The JAR Action Plan
• 11 Million Takeover Day
• Children's Centres

December pdf, publisher

• Gun's Gang's and Knives
• Multi-Agency Support Teams
• A City Fit for Young People