Local Children's Partnership Groups

Local Children’s Partnership Groups (LCPGs) bring together partners to improve outcomes for children and young people. LCPGs have district partnership priorities and annual plans.

Our partner organisations include:

• district and borough councils
• Community Safety Partnerships
• NHS Kent and Medway
• health
• education settings (early years, schools and colleges)
• police
• housing
• voluntary and community sector.

Purpose of the group

• Be highly-focused, data driven and always underpinned by delivering a measurable improvement in the priority outcomes for children and young people across the full 0 to 19 (and up to 25) age group.
• Maintain significant oversight and exploit opportunities to influence improved delivery of non-statutory multi agency service provision in the district.
• Drive and promote service integration across non-statutory multi-agency services.
• Debate and explore ideas to address current, emerging and future needs.
• Develop local thematic priorities and a single, district-wide partnership action plan, influenced by the voice of children, young people and their caregivers.
• Consider how resources, including grant funding, can be pooled and/or utilised to maximise impact.
• Feed into the wider strategic Kent 0 to 25 Health and Wellbeing Board, through the alignment of priorities, linking in and raising thematic trends.

Read about the district priorities.

Structure and meeting cycle

Led by county council members, LCGPs bring together the Young People’s Partnership Conversation (YPPC) 8 to 19 and up to 25 group. As well as the Children’s Partnership Conversation (CPC) 0 to 7 year group. These groups feed into the LCPG to add strength and greater district coordination.

View the structure chart (PDF, 39.1 KB) and meeting cycle (PDF, 82.7 KB).

LCPGs are also supported by a vice chair and coordinator. The vice chair is our Area Open Access Service Manager. The coordinator is our Area Partnership Manager.

View the full list of chairs, vice chairs and coordinators and their contact details.

If you'd like to get in touch, contact the Area Partnership Manager for your district in the first instance. Their contact details can be found below.

Children’s Partnership Conversation meetings are chaired by the District Children’s Centre Delivery Manager and the Young People’s Partnership Conversation meetings are chaired by the District Youth Hub Delivery Managers.

Get regular updates

To help with local needs, we have made directories of support service by area.

In the east and south, we also create partnership bulletins. Every month the bulletins contain the latest information about:

• new services
• opportunities
• training
• funding
• best practice.

Contact your local APM to get regular updates.