Northern Ireland Children and Young People’s Plan 2025-2028
The Children and Young People’s Plan is the core plan for the multi-agency delivery of early intervention social care services for children and families in Northern Ireland. The Plan is supported by a number of lower level plans which are in place across the five Outcomes Group areas, associated 25 Locality Planning Groups and the Prevention of Offending Subgroup.
This structure ensures that those plans contribute to the realisation of local outcomes while taking cognisance of regional priorities, outcomes and activities.
The purpose of the Plan is to:
- Set out a shared vision and strategic direction to guide the work of the NI CYPSP for the period 2025-2028;
- Provide a planning framework agreed by all partner agencies that will be used to develop, monitor, review and improve how we deliver early intervention services;
- Describe the outcomes we aim to achieve together and the improvements we need to deliver;
- Set out an integrated approach to implemeting our strategy and delivering those improvements.
Pivotal to developing the Plan has been the consultation with children, young people, parents / primary care givers, service providers and partners at regional and local level.
The Plan captures the voices of children and young people, and reflects our commitment to the United Nations Convention on Children’s Rights. Our collective goal is to continue to improve our approach to engaging children and young people, including those from vulnerable or disadvantged groups in the development of services, and to increase childrenand young people’s direct participation in decision-making which directly affects them and their families.