EVERY CHILD MATTERS
'Every Child Matters: Change for Children' is a new UK government approach to the well being of children and young people from birth to age 19. Ministry of Football actively supports this initiative and will work together with local authorities to achieve its outcomes.
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Outcomes for children and young people
The Every Child Matters green paper identified the five outcomes that are most important to children and young people:
- Be healthy
Stay safe
Enjoy and achieve
Make a positive contribution
Achieve economic well-being
The five outcomes are universal ambitions for every child and young person, whatever their background or circumstances. Improving outcomes for all children and young people underpins all of the development and work within children's trusts.
The outcomes are mutually reinforcing. For example, children and young people learn and thrive when they are healthy, safe and engaged; and the evidence shows clearly that educational achievement is the most effective route out of poverty.
This means that the organisations involved with providing services to children - from hospitals and schools, to police and voluntary groups - will be teaming up in new ways, sharing information and working together, to protect children and young people from harm and help them achieve what they want in life. Children and young people will have far more say about issues that affect them as individuals and collectively.
Over the next few years, every local authority will be working with its partners, through children's trusts, to find out what works best for children and young people in its area and act on it. They will need to involve children and young people in this process, and when inspectors assess how local areas are doing, they will listen especially to the views of children and young people themselves.
