Voluntary Action Lewisham

Lewisham Children and Young People's Strategic Partnership

Lewisham Children and Young People's Strategic Partnership Board (CYPSPB) is the Children's Trust for Lewisham. It oversees decision making on policy and services affecting children, young people and families, and reports to the Local Strategic Partnership (LSP). The Partnership is made up of representatives from all major agencies:

• Lewisham Council
• Lewisham NHS Primary Care Trust (PCT)
• Lewisham Hospital NHS Trust
• South London and Maudsley NHS Trust (SLAM)
• Lewisham Voluntary and Community Sector CYP Forum
• Lewisham Metropolitan Police
• Lewisham College

Fourteen specialist Boards and Working Groups sit under the CYPSPB, including the Joint Commissioning Group (JCG), which oversees funding allocation to children's services, and the Lewisham Safeguarding Children Board (LSCB), which oversees child safety and protection.

Each year our VCS CYP Forum elects two representatives to each Board and Working Group within the CYP Strategic Partnership. For details of this year's reps, download the 'VCS Reps 2010' attachment below.

For feedback from your Reps from recent meetings please download the VCS Reps' Feedback documents below. If you wish to contact Reps to respond to and/or request action on any of the points raised in the meeting notes, please contact jennifer@valewisham.org.uk or call me on 020 8314 7679.

If you are interested in becoming a VCS Rep yourself, you might be interested to read the 'Lewisham VCS Reps' Handbook', also attached below. Our next elections will take place in December 2010.

Big thanks to all our VCS Reps for their fantastic work on our behalf!